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can you hear the turbo boosting? is it giving off excess smoke when your getting up the revs?
I had one with a boost leak and it would start to pull about 1500rpm then drop off at 1800rpm and start giving off thick black smoke due to the lack of air. it was a boost pipe that had cracked around...
no point tuning it, better with the diesel for that. not a great engine the petrol.
you could have it remapped and find out what bits are different with the 128bhp engine in yours and the 133bhp engine in the twingo as they are pretty much the same but with different outputs
if its a sucking noise (sounds like the car taking a quick breath!) when you first press the accelerator then that's normal.
if it continues to keep making a sucking noise then you have an air leak somewhere
imagine how much fun it would be trying to get that clean and running again! id give it a go! they are still holding that much money that id bet you could still make a profit on that if it cost you close to free and wasn't registered as a write off
ive had FK silverline X which I believe are just stainless version of the konigsport (still have koni dampers etc) and ive had Bilstein B14, and the bilsteins are better, but the FK's were bloddy good!
I only used them on the road though so not sure about track
is it running full 172 widetrack so hubs and driveshafts etc?
as the abs shouldn't be an issue unless the driveshafts are changed as the abs rings are part of these, I wasn't even aware they were different teeth wise? and I don't think the sensors are any different so even if it had 172 hubs it...
THIS.
what is going on with this place recently. I only kept my 200 for 10 months, 15k miles but it was the best handling car ive ever owned out the box, no need to change anything. factory tyres (think it was conti 3's on it?) had bags of grip, wear rate was good and they wernt too expensive...
Really depends on history and tbh sometimes just luck of the draw! Mine is on 150k and runs like new! I had another on 155k that shat a gearbox but still ran brilliant engine wise
my 172 on a 182 manifold, ktec decat and ktec stealth exhaust with matched inlets and the standard map used to pop flames on high rpm gear changes when it was mega hot