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try it, nothing to lose by asking

easy to tell when drop links are worn, just grab hold and push/pull up and down. there's a balljoint at each end but it's the ARB end that wears worst. They're attached to the strut so move about when you turn. Cv joint wear can be identified similarly by just pulling the shaft about and feeling...

check out bottom balljoints and ARB drop links then. had to do mine on my 205 last week. essentially the same setup and the drop links are bad for wear

knocking when turning sounds like a driveshaft/cv joint which wouldn't surprise me at all, pugs/citroens are shite for CV joints. Saxo clutches are bad for release bearings collapsing.

seeing this on loads of clios, the standard clips are really bad and break all the time. Trying out a couple of different types of replacements to see which are the best. One of our suppliers has told me about some that local renault dealer buys from him for this exact thing so they're on order...

yup, Gary's already stripped it and got it at the bodyshop being jigged straight. I followed it from APT to the petrol station a couple of weeks ago, it accelerates like a motorbike!!!!

30 should be better. I always ran 29 front 30 rear on my 205 gti with 195/50/15s very similar weight.

yeah dont mean major pressure drops, just 2psi tweaks. Wheel and tyre size shouldn't really make much difference to tyre pressures (anything different obviously needs fine tuning), it's more important how much the car weighs. If you've done much weight saving you'll need to run lower pressures...

I'd definitely say that's too high front pressure

what pressures are you running in tyres now? too high would account to some degree for easy locking up, skipping in bends and understeer. I'd look at softer front damping and lower tyre pressures. Alternatively raise the rear damper rates to slow down the weight shift from corner to corner

oh sweet jesus lower it now, dont even drive it, it might fall over

nice stance, I like that. Understated in a "i'm going to corner like an animal" kind of way

I was with you right upto this point. The engineers we use were at one point refurbishing 7 K-series cylinder heads every single week. They love them, they make a fortune out of them. The k-series DOES have inherant design faults that make the HG fail. Sadly the problem has been resolved by ford...

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TVR all day long. The mk1 v6 just isn't as nice a car as the mk2 and they're a lot more cash. I'd love a vee but it would have to be mk2

my mate Martins 1981 Bluebird SSS currently building a very powerful 200sx engine for it

a little under £100 for just springs, plus the labour to fit them

they're noise/vibration damping ballast blocks. not noticed the one in pic 1 before and can't really see it properly, but the one in pic 2 can be removed safely

I'd decide what else you're going to change soon first then give Paul at RStuning a call and see what he recommends. You can't just unplug and swap in a different ECU, they're linked into the immobiliser

FTO = jap calibra. dont even test drive one, they're shite. What other jap stuff are you thinking of ? there's a few good ones. Honda Integra or s2000 are both pretty awesome

that had me on the edge of my seat, knew what was coming. looked a beast

if the clio one is the same as the laguna and megane one then christ on a bike is it pants!!!! yay for sitting the airbox above the exhaust manifold, doh!!

a set of Apex springs should do the trick for you

does nobody lower their car anymore? I must be getting old, is high riding a new fashion? ;)

seen a lot worse than that. By christ it needs lowering though

my mate Bobbys car, won best rat look at Bug Jam last year. I helped put the engine in it a week or so before :)

dont know how much this counts as JDM apart from the 300zx wheels from a JDM non turbo that i did a hub conversion to fit looks like this now anyway

just about low enough

disagree apart from the 1.2 being a watse of time. factory maps are all generic, but no 2 engines are identical. You can always make improvements by fine tuning, even on a standard engine with nothing else done.

bending the peddle? lol