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Re: The life of... SharkyUK's Trophy [& Fred's V6] Sounds like mine on idle with itbs and piper cams. Graph looks very similar too (like most itb'd and cammed Clios!) So I know how well it will go now :) Bet it was worth the wait!

Later 197 box or 200 box with the longer 5th and 6th with a R26 4.07 final drive would be ok (if that's possible). Not much difference in terms of top gear compared with the JC5-129.

Never really noticed petrol blue before, its a lovely colour. Hope the engine is ok after you replace the sump.

Nice work, very impressive.

I went with quaife. Worked out cheaper, I do more road miles than track and I didn't want to remove the box.

Sounds and goes well :)

38.1mm

Interesting about the Astra pump. I'll get myself one of them instead of the 106/Saxo pump. Have you connected yours up yet?

Balls :( missed it

I replaced my standard Renault bushes with some harder rubber ones from Gaz. Weeksy helped me out with them

Crashy isn't just the spring rate. It's also down to the dampers. It would probably be low enough with some 250lb 6" springs. I've got a pair in the garage not far off that, I'll have to check what they are.

Mazin

Coil springs in Sheffield can make you some. The length also depends on spring rate, whether the back is stripped out, whether you carry any load in the boot or passengers etc. So, what do you use the car for, what do you have in the back, how stiff do you want it, what spring rates do you...

Put sleeve on. Then it goes washer, rubber, car strut turret, rubber, washer, nut.

They're the same length. I'm guessing the replacement shaft was a used one.

At least the beer is still £1 a pint there

Nice progress :D

Good stuff :) Spax are notsocheap rubbish, the difference in technology and quality is massive yet the price difference isn't! I still need to do mine too, it'll have to wait until after my holiday though. Just over 6 weeks until the RS day at Oulton.

You'll have the RS192 fitted then. You can run two tailpipes off one central silencer at the back and you won't need a centre silencer. The standard cat is a sports cat but the olive joint is a restriction so you can do the sleeve mod to be rid of that.

Been pulled once. He spoke to me like I had just s**t on his doorstep despite me being polite.

Something like a single box oreca or yozza

EFI are local and very good

Bad times :( Any indication of the problem?

Don't fit one, it won't do anything

I've had normal 595 and the RSR. The difference is night and day. RSR are good, normal 595 are not

g172 can help you out as our resident brake man.

Mintex 1144 aren't all that. I get my ds2500 fading on the road (but not so much on track as you carry more speed.) Better pads are the answer. You could try Yellowstuff as a budget offering, £65 for a set of them. Anything else costs 2-4x that.

As chip said they only gain about 8bhp. Iirc from Mike's graph they lost a little torque and the bhp gains were only at the very top end. If you're going to go to the hassle of doing a cam swap then fit the best you can for the budget. I'd go for 421 over the 438, they're £600 new and very...

Unless you're going to take the engine apart for forged pistons catcams 421 are the best option. May as well keep the vvt too.

I can see that working, for a short while at lease!