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you're best off with a sport cat for the best of both worlds, to get gains but keep the noise sensible. Ours is still one of the quietest off the shelf performance systems, but free flowing does mean louder to an extent :)

only when you open it up, you can still get good fuel mileage with normal driving, but yes where you're taking advantage of the extra power it will use more fuel, just like anything modified

no, doesn't need to be uneconomical at all when driven normally, only reason they are is people "enjoying" them a bit more often than they would have before

Wouldn't touch Techniclutch, as you've already seen from googling, there's a lot of bad feedback and I've seen their clutches not even manage to handle standard power when claiming to be uprated. LUK are a good reputable brand, and that's a cheap fitted price, I wouldn't really fancy it with...

234.4 on the RR printout

yes it's possible, you just need a plenum on the front of the bodies

the reality is, a standalone ECU can cost you about the same as a set of cams, and that's including fitting and mapping, and IMO the gains are actually better

you do on standard internals in reality. With a high compression bottom end you can do it on the standard plenum. Dont think you'll get close to 200 on the stock ECU though

sounds pretty dodgy, I wouldn't be keen to drive it like that What did they charge out of interest?

It would be really hard going. A dremel is good for taking out fine imperfections in tight spaces and where you dont want to remove much material. With these manifolds, although you dont go crazy, you do need to take out a fair amount.

Dremel will be a nightmare TBH, too small for this job, it's a fine detail thing. You need a proper die grinder and grinding burrs or it will take you weeks.

Nice. Colour works a treat!!

just comparing power figures with no other info on the car tells you jack s**t TBH. Gear ratios can make up the difference between 200 and 300bhp in certain conditions. That's just one example of a variable and there's so many to think of

looks like 1 4 3 2 5 to me 12453 according to autodata :s

the bottom is different in the fact the casting improved later in the life of the engine, but all will physically bolt on :)

minor bits like idle control valve on mk1 172 also

they're not running on either of those cars :)

Richard at Omex gets over 30mpg but he drives like an old man on the road ;) :p

we dont use 421s, we generally use 428s on engines with stock internals and 422s on high compression/race builds :)

I think it can be done in relative simplicity, there's certainly enough room for the turbo, and i'd say the bay even looked like it was designed to take the turbo then downgraded so not to compete with the megane. I've looked more and more closely each time we've had a meggy and a 197 in and I...

lower manifold will bolt to any 172/182. The plenum has a range of differences through the years. You could probably make most things fit and work with the right tools but mostly it's just worth getting the correct one for the year :)

always a good idea to change shocks in axle pairs. I'm a Koni fan generally

pmsl. why would it?

BGA do a separate gasket that's decent quality. Try a motor factor. Should be able to get the HG from renault separately too

shhh

maybe they struggled to fit it and used something to lever the belt on which did some damage to the belt?

got to agree TBH. Though the 197 chassis is far superior and makes up for a hell of a lot of the extra weight IMO

All the aluminium brackets in the kit (inc the ones on cars at FCS) ARE anodised. And we've said about 20 times that it's a new kit Dave. The brackets made for the race car (FMP_) and the black demo are not standard bits, we've made custom changes like the 120mm trumpets on the black car which...

how is it? if you dont claim, then it's never catagorised as a write off. It's certainly NOT illegal to repair a car and sell it, where on earth did you get that deluded concept from? Thousands of people make a living from doing just that

half the front end is off on that car