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Rob - "My view is if you cant afford the best dont bother at all" - so why are you driving around in a 1.2 Clio? ;)

BTW, how the feck would I go about fitting this sort of thing. Is it like £90 for the product and £100000000000 to fit as usual? Rhys

Rob - no, you get what you can afford!!!! james - cheers for the info. Rhys

Well to be fair the standard 172 steering definitely cant be described as "lightening fast"! Lowered it is a different story, but I guess their talking about standard. Rhys

Rob - on what? 172 or Willy? Craggy - some of us dont have the magic touch when it comes to launching. I like the idea of traction control....just need to find a suitabley low priced system (eg: NOT racelogic!)

I find it easier to gety a decent launch in the the willy than in the 172. The spread of torque in the willy is more useful and allows for quicker lower rev starts. The 172 never seemed that keen below 4500 revs and a bit too keen above leading to dead tyres and bad launches for me...

I was given an RAC breakdown cover card with my imported 172 and told by the useless sh*teheads at Bentleys of Sheffield that it had breakdown cover. It didnt. Kept the spare in the car since then, though!

Suit you, sir ;)

BB Tuning and Hillpower?!

In Sheffield I see the Willy 2 "** PAF" around a lot, but no others apart from mine.

Also try this link. £20 and can pick up signals from three sensors (but just 1 included!) http://www.oregonscientific.co.uk/product.asp?c=2&s=11&p=91http://www.oregonscientific.co.uk/product.asp?c=2&s=11&p=91 Rhys

Bondy - cheers for the tip. Wasnt keen on the Halfords ones so I passed. Theres a Maplins 2 mins walk from me so Ill go and ask what they have. Rhys

Word of warning - if you are going to do this, make sure your breakdown coverage is valid. Mine wasnt and it cost me £300 to join, get resuced and have the tyre replaced. There was also a surcharge for not having a spare wheel. I had 2 cans of foam with me, but not much use when the whole...

Cool...might even manage to do it tonight. Might fork out for an AP22 next month :devilish: Could really do with an engine bay temp. sensor as well as one for the air intake. Hmm....

Thanks Brun - will take a look. Hope I dont have to remove any of the dash to get at it. :confused: Will put picks up if I manage it.

Craggy mentioned something to me about these £10 digital thermometers from Halfords, and that people had managed to set them up as air intake temperature gauges by running the cable through to the engine bay. The effect of air temp. on performance is of interest to me, so Im going to have a go...

Ive got a new catalytic converter on the Willy now and Ive come to a conclusion. Its definitely quicker without one (particularly over 4500rpm). The engine doesnt feel strangled or anything with the cat on, it just feels a lot more free at high revs. I would recommend a silenced de-cat though...

Uh-oh! :o ;)

matt - at least the flames have stopped shooting out of it and I dont have a dead cat on it any more... :oops:

lol! Dont even joke about it. Fed up of driving around in a 1.25 Fiesta and getting beaten off traffic lights by taxis!