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VERY VERY nice, theres a fine line between thats modded and whats wasted when your posting on here but thats deffo a nice one, subtle but nice.
id maby change spoiler for a cup one but apart from that id leave it as it is DONT CHANGE THE MIRRORS!!! that'll waste it
nice work
deffo worth a read if you havnt read it already, they even get it profesionally set up with corner weights etc, change the wishbones and ball joints, change a worn engine mount and still dont like it
i love snow lol
if it was my car id take stickers and stripes off, drop it 60mm, smoked repeaters, standard mirrors and light tints!
but its not my car
anyone read the bit about the 172 cup on LEDA coilovers this month, and about how they hate them and prefer standard setup?
whats everyones thoughts on this? i was totally surprized when i read it, tbh would have been surprized if they didnt think they were that much better than standard, but...
my cars fucked so had one of the driving school cars out this morning. broadsiding it round roundabouts with the sign on the roof! managed a 360 in the middle of a roundabout lol
the wee sport badges look the same as 172 cup ones from a difference i remember laughing at guys sticking 172 cup badges on their brand new 1.2's untill i saw them in the showroom with them lol
anyway dynamique is in the sports range so nothing wrong with it, not that id bother doing it...
i like the 138, needs coilovers tho to sort it out
think i read somewhere its got the same ammount of torque as a 172? just down on power? pretty piss poor bhp for a 2.0 16v tho, id expect arround 150bhp from it.
ive spent thousands on mine now, if i was doing it again with another dynamique only things i would do is....
Coilovers
Eagle F1s
172 gearbox mount with Powerflex polly bushes
diadems or silvervisions
dont get me wrong i love my cat back, strut braces, polly bushes, air filter etc but they...
no its not to do with what it looks like its just the F4R engine wasnt avalible in the dynamique model range so they dont have anything to go by when it comes to taxing the car so it stays the same.
newer style 2004> engines sound very nice with an induction kit, older style one sounds ok but not as good.
you wont notice a difference in performance, maby a slight difference to the engine response but likely nothing, the noise will make you think you do tho lol
K-Tec relocated induction...
jon_16v (think thats his username) only pays 1.2 tax on his 2.0 hybrid because that engine wasnt used in that model of car so it doesnt have a tax band or something i remember reading that here a couple of months back
ive been stoped 3 times in the last 3 years, all 3 times the bonnet has been popped, not sure what they check tho! they done every car they stopped tho not just mine! is wasnt normal traffic cops tho they had VSOA jackets on!
even if you put a 2.0 16v in a 1.2 clio tho you still pay the tax...
asking on behalf of a mate, whats the law with driving a car with a non factory engine thats not on the V5 or insurance
obviously it will void your insurance, but does it only void your insurance when the company states its void (so you cant get done for driving with no insurance if the police...
does matts conversion kit come with standard suspension? thinking of going for one now instead of a 1600 but cant afford a set of 172 coilovers yet!
whats required to use a 182 manifold on it?
so am i right in thinking i could go for a full fat engine + box with a cup alternator bracket...
Gibson172 has a kinda squeek/grind noise coming from the cambelt side of the engine my mechanic mate had a look and recon'd it was a cambelt pully (think that was what he said it was?) sound possible? so whats needed in parts to do the job? just a cambelt kit? does this inc the aux belt...