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can't get to the inner journals due to the cover design.

didn't say it wasn't. said i put them on and measured the camber to find the starting point, and had 2.5 degrees. Try reading the information rather than looking for something to disagree with for the sake of it

cam has nothing to do with it, it's the 2 halfs of the circle being in the right place that matters. if they're misalligned the cam will lock up and you'll get a BIG mess

you can get the new cover re honed to the head.

ASTs are in a different league. For a start they actually have things other than height you can adjust straight out the box. I've driven many coilover equipt cars and nothing has been so compliant when driving normally, and so completely confidence inspiring when being pushed hard. You can...

ahhh i get you. That's a ride height variable. Our car isn't that low, and I think we removed the helper springs from the TA race car so the lower spring platforms were well clear of wheels/tyres

holy crap, didn't see the bit about cheaper than skimming until now. just skim the head!!!! NOOOOO absolutely NOT. you cannot use a different rocker cover, they are specific to the head as the cam journals are in the cover and line bored to the head. They are NOT interchangeable

yup, it's there in the pic :)

on top of the cam cover, there's another cover bolted on. these are different between the 172 and 182

matching is less of an issue, more important is the breather box on the rocker cover is different, so in turn the mounts for the plenum, and the vac pipe for the carbon canister are different. nothing you can't overcome as long as you have the breather box

where did 1.5 degrees come from? I've set ours at around 2.5 degrees when i just threw them on and checked where they sat. Sure FMP_ had his around 2 degrees at one point too

oh what tosh, those valves are about £4 each and it's one of the simplest engines the world has ever seen

480 with the 1.7 turbo

sourcing another box. reconditioner said it's the worst box they've ever seen from any car :S

you'd think, but they're available ;)

they're essentially the same. H&R use Billy dampers, and Bilstein use H&R springs

tried to talk Andy into a manual rack for the Demo car but he like the PAS too much. Though to be honest our car is the only clio I've driven that didn't feel really over assisted. We run very slight toe out (20mins) and more camber than you would on a daily driver (can't state a figure as we...

got ours off the car, I'll measure the ID of the metal sleeve tomorrow :) Think it's a 10mm clearance though

normally have a new line made with the old ends re-swaged on. PAS fittings are nigh on impossible to buy, and new is very expensive from renault

cup alternator, brackets, adjuster and one PAS line need to be changed (the other line can just be re-routed a little differently

motor factor. it means 6 ribs and 850mm long :)

I have. Not one of the mentioned issues was apparent to me

Sounds viable but i've not done any of your car and dont know when the box will be ready

yes. hi :)

that's a very sweeping statement TBH, dont know what's needed replacing.

it hasn't "gone hard" they're plastic not rubber. Just needs re-greasing and a new clip fitting

LOL, can you say BOOM :D fair play for pushing it on standard internals though, it's the only way we find the limits of these things :) Are you going to keep pushing it more and start a book on what will fail first?

book time is less than 2 hours IIRC. Belt kit retails at under £90 from renault, and the aux belt is about £7. I'd say £200 would be more like it really

doing one NOW

the extra pressure put behind the FPR is simply to compensate for the fact there's pressure in the manifold that would otherwise hold back the fuel in the injectors. This means that a 3 bar FPR with a vac/pressure feed will run 3 bar over manifold pressure no matter what pressure is in the...