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I Love: Driving the 172 in general, the grip, the pace, THE NOISE! I Hate: every time i see a fast car im in the dci!!!!

super glued all the hose up untill i get a replacement and the thing feels rapid now haha that must have been the problem!! that must be why i thought it was silly that people said they were on par or even faster with 1.2 16v, the 1.2 felt much quicker compaired to it but now its better!

its just a pipe to replace the catalitic convertor (basically a big restrictive spounge!) so it allows the exhaust gasses to flow quicker giving more power its illegal because your car wont pass an emitions test for your mot.

been that fed up just went out at 1:30am in the rain and started taking it to bits haha, found a broken boost pipe, was split where one of the sensors goes in, unpluged the sensor and problem got worse, so im assuming thats whats causing it! im on the case now!

i know but i refuse to give renault any money to look at my car lol i can't get to the bottom of this its getting to me, tried to overtake a slow moving merc sprinter van tonight on a dual carridge way, half way past he floored it and left me for dust i had to pull back in lol

standard is more than up to the job of track work

erm its not to bad to fit i started it at 10pm after work and finished it early hours of morning, its just a fidly job, trial and error trying to get subframe low enough to get old manifold out and new one in etc

Night and day, best mod ive done paired with the decat. the extra torque low down is awesome pulls like a train now

wee video of my 172 doing a 40-130mph run on a private airfield. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nR8chNPnWg

i like the black engine cover to hide the RenaultSport inlet manifold, very stelth, looks almost like a 1.2.........

f**k, you only live once, at 18 i went from a 1.2 dynamique to a 172, best thing i ever done, i payed £2500 a year 3rd party too, dropped at 19 to £1200 fully comp. in all honesty ive never driven a car like the 172, doesnt matter what it is, nothing ive came across yet compairs in fun factor...

why does it bottom with prolines? you got no dampers? lol

well to sum it up you cant have lower suspension with a soft ride it would just bottom out and bounce about!

looks like teh wiring for the fog lights

the reinforced members running up the chassis at each side of the exhaust is were i always use.

not changed the headunit recently have you? had a mate who changed his cd player and trapped wires behind it, shorting them and blowing a fuse, i sorted wiring and changed fuse and it fired up fine.

dephaser (spelling) possibly? had a shot of a mates 172 who said it didnt feel that fast, and it was dead high in the revs, turned out the VVT wasnt activating

my 172 pulls like a train with the decat and 182 manifold

genuine renault was £60 when i done my 1.2 so that sounds about right

where are you bassed? its pretty straight forward tbh, time consuming though, you can split the gearbox and engine and fit it thu a small gap with the box still fitted but to be honest if its your first time you'd probably be best removing the box, gearbox oil and driveshaft and having plenty...

no need for rear disk conversion

yey its started again, not tried the above suggestion yet but surely it wouldnt be causing the problem if at 3.5k im getting a surge of power and torque? its just a flat spot. what about a turbo pressure sensor or something?

the only downpipe problem i can see is that it doesnt have one

i know the pros and cons of light weight flywheels but what im interested in is has anyone used the K-Tec one for the 172? ive got 2 new driveshafts and a clutch and new gearbox oil coming for my 172 so just giving it a thought while im at it. any comments? cheers

you need the engine, gearbox, loom, UCH to start with you can use the 1.4 driveshafts, and you can get away with the 1.4 brakes but id be using the 2.0 16v ones if possible best bet though is to do it properly and use 2.0 brakes, hubs and suspension if it was me id be buying a doner car...

read my thread about my dci having boost problems, this sounds identical to my problem but i cant work out whats causing it. mine is having issues at 3k revs where it drops off the boost but then when it slowly pulls to 3.5k or there abouts it boosts again

yeah sorry air filters in, turbo seems to make a bit more noise with it, throttle response seems better and pulls a tiny bit harder on boost but keep in mind this was a very dirty renault filter it replaced. as for the problem, i spoke to soon took it on the motorway tonight 4th gear 3,000 rpm...

they always have some air but this was loads, just had it out a drive and much better, full boost right thru the rev range, i can overtake now!! haha time to get it mapped and FMIC :p

might possibly have found the answer guys, when looking at the fuel pipes i could see loads of air bubbles in them, its a possibility that the car wasnt getting enough fuel so was cutting boost? ive not test drove it yet but ive bled the fuel system and we'll see what happens

if its had enough force to push the wheel in, move the battery and take the aux belt off then chances are its a write off tbh!