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The amount of hours spent on this think I would’ve just bought the ecu set off @Louis.

FWIW i drove my 172 to a car show once came back to it to drive home and the ecu decided to brick itself. Replacement ecu/uch/key and it fired straight up so it does happen.

I paid £700 for mine on my race car, albeit this was done as a race car job so isn’t perfect.

Hopefully see you at snetterton, if I pull my finger out and get my 172 sorted for hot hatch!

Did they ever hill climb it in the end? Fairly sure that’s what they wanted to do when they bought it off me. I even kept the receipt from when I sold it and had thought many times over the years phoning them and seeing if they still had it/wanted to sell it. The day I got it!

Wow I haven’t seen that old girl for years! I was 18 when I bought that from a guy in farnborough, paid £3250 for it with full Renault history at the time and only 30k miles on it. Took it Scotland for my cousins wedding and sold it when I got back as I decided I wanted to go racing and I’ve...

Will you be selling the old standard suspension or is it past it?

Once I’m settled at my new job I’m making it a priority 😆

Thought about selling the lot and buying an m2

I don’t know of anyone just selling replacement standard bushes unfortunately. It’s not the end of the world for me to go poly with it, just more hassle to fit the bushes 😆

Fair enough part of me did think that would be the case. Polybushes probably will be the solution then annoyingly.

Has anyone bought and used the Ktec aftermarket lower arms for 172? I want to do a suspension refresh on my cup but don’t want to fit polybushes to the current arms. I’m just a skeptical of ordering because knowing Ktec they won’t turn up! Unless anyone knows somewhere else I can buy them...

I haven’t fitted one yet but I’m going to when I finally get my engine back together. Probably wouldn’t have this issue if I’d had this fitted!

I’ll have a 131k mile 172 cup for sale in 4-6 weeks if that’ll be of interest? Could be sooner if needed.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116460029754?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=OL8M4kwdRPS&sssrc=2051273&ssuid=OL8M4kwdRPS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY...

So after my petulant outburst months ago when I thought the gearbox had shat itself again, yesterday I decided to actually look at the car to see if it was indeed knackered. Taxed it yesterday and drove it up the road, little noise heard but nothing like before very odd. Eventually I came to...

What would my 66k mile turbocharged RB be worth? 3 owner car 248bhp Gen90 mapped by Andy at phoenix automotive technologies Safety devices cage Bimarco futara seats Engine is the one that @GrahamS built for his turbo 172 build. Will have a fresh cambelt fitted Will have a freshly rebuilt...

The latest cup covered in salt and shite!

I did this test on the Oxford ring road circa 2012 🤣

£300 SPG, got to be fake surely

Sounds like the twingo box needs to be investigated as it could be the answer to the issues!

Yeah you could right there, you do get a bit more reliant on the torque. Since I’ve now had it mapped properly (KTR did a shite job when they installed the Gen90) it’s now probably actually making the correct power/torque figures. Still annoying though it’s literally done: 2x 20 min sessions...

Something internal again, sounds like it’s grinding itself away! It’s 248bhp 233 ftlb so I think I’m just on the edge with a jc5! Hence wanting to go in another direction with the car. Love the boost, but also it is nice to drive an N/A 172/182 as Renault did know what they were doing not...

Very good point. When I get some time I need to research every option I have. I just have a vtec itch but equally I really do love the boosted F4R

I’m not sure to be honest, I imagine a dog box or sequential would be really spendy!

We’ve already got a 265 😂

Time to phone custom production to get some parts 🤣

Definitely, my car handles brilliantly now but is just let down by the slightly flaky drive train so with a Honda I think it would be fantastic. What gearbox does a kswap use, ep3?

I’m glad others think a k20 is the way to go as well! I have no timeline so it could take a year if needed, as long as when I drive it hard it’s reliable when it’s done.

I’m looking for opinions on where to go next with my low boost 182, today it’s done the gearbox again (was rebuilt 2 years 5 track days ago) it’s built with a gripper diff, and I really don’t want to spend another £1k on it, plus the time pulling it out etc So that leads me to the question...