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ideal for day to day driving when you cant be bothered putting in any effort driving quick, i just sink the boot in 5th gear from 40mph and your pulling back in from an overtake at 110+ still in the same gear, ideal for lazy people lol

my 100 just has a decent remap on it for 130bhp / 190lb/ft

its just torque and a different power delivery, my mate has a remapped fabia VRS which felt twice as quick as my 172 did, turned out their wasnt anything in it the 172 just edged forward a bit

we tried 5 times to get mine thru with a decat and just couldnt do it

i didnt do mine on my old car and it was coming up for 7yrs and 50k but its just a gamble you take, some phase 1s out there are on original belts at 10yrs old and others snap their belts before they are due its just a gamble really, we had a mk3 1.2 16v that snapped a belt at 2yrs and 60k

had my mk2 172 for over 2 years since i was 18 then sold it as i felt it was time for a change, cut about in the dci for 6 months, got bored and bought the ph1 and im actually even happier with it than i was with my first one even although this one cost quarter of the price and isnt as clean and...

reading fail on my part, needs to be the proper ones!

pmsl, is that brand new genuine?!

i like that

spotted a silver mk1 172 in chapelhall heading towards motherwell, i was in the dci waiting to turn right

lol @ people saying your mechanic pal will balls it up, people dont get them timed properly as they dont use the proper tools for the engine, if your buying him the tools it will be fine, its only a cambelt ffs your not asking him to give you a heart transplant!

mk2 used a dci100 lump, the dci 106 has a different bottom end uses a 6 speed box and uses a slightly different injection system, better lump.

the dci 80 intercooler is a big square one it goes from the bottom of the radiator to the top of the radiator and about half of the width of the grill, most of it gets covered by the bumper tho so its not as efficient as the 100 intercooler which is a long thin one that goes across the bottom of...

as said above i got the full lot for my old car for £30, but if they know what its worth you could pay up to £100 for the lot! with a bit of playing about with silicon hosing you can fit a focus TDCi, BMW 320/330d one, the focus ST one looks like it would fit too

at the end of the day i own and drive both, straight line flying thru the revs the 172 is a good bit faster, but not that much faster that it would pull a great deal of distance over the course of a few bends! the dci will still quite happily redline @ 130 where the 172 will run out of puff at...

nice and fair yes, both cars have had compairable ammounts of money spent on modifications. 190lbft and 60mpg yummy yummy

the funnyest thing ive heard all week is your above post considering i own both cars.

im torn between these and vmaxx both £400 delivered inc vat

yeah they are a laugh to drive with all that torque, ive just done uprated disks and pads all round on mine and the stopping power is phenominal, fancy another set of coilovers, ill probably start a thread on dci.net about which ones, i cant decide lol

get it up the revs and it will blow it away, around town tho the dci is a bit quicker unless you drive everywhere in 2nd in the 172 lol

depends what sort of miles you do, i used to do about 1k a month at one point in my last 172 and didnt bother me, then got the dci and doing 1k a month in that costs me about £20, now i cant bare to take the 172 to work and back lol so just keep that for weekends!

bumper can remain on, its easier having it off when doing it on a driveway but dont need to remove it

dont crash then lol

nice car, get yourself over to www.cliodci.net for more info on what intercooler to go with for it!

obviously you would be mad to replace the work of art that is the k9k with one of they rough as a badgers arse F4R's however yes you would get £30 a year road tax and of course extremely cheap insurance because your clever and wouldnt declair it, £1500 dci clio spend £2k converting it thats an...

i had conti sport contacts on my last 172 and they nearly killed me a few times after being used to Eagle F1 GSD3's under steer city! i beleive Joe swapped them for eagle F1s too once he bought it and commented on the improvement it made!

i just used normal bodywork paint for mine (see my thread in images for my first attempt at painting!)

make sure you torque them up PROPERLY, i dont torque anything up but i always make sure i do plugs, too many horror storys of them blowing plugs out the head!

theres why, low mile's isnt good for them! another is people waiting 18k for oil changes, they should be done every 10k imo in the dci especially when doing low miles do that and a yearly fuel filter and they are spot on.

buy a 2k dci and stick all your miles on that @ 65mpg then have the vee for the weekend if you want one, altho if you stay on a main road chances are it will go walkabout!