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Preaching to the converted as mentioned!!lol! Bought a lovely, standard and original (ish) 172 Phase 1 few weeks back, its since had man logic firmly applied to it and I love it!lol!

i tried to run my old 172 on normal BP 95 RON and it used to splutter and loose power all over the shop, on the Ultimate it was fine, so since then for the sake of 2 quid a tank or whatever it works out at, I've always run my F4R engines on some form of Super unleaded, be it Shell, BP, Tesco...

Great write up and truly lovely looking car, in some ways it's a shame you modded it at all. Even down to the bulbs. But if I did mention that it would be very much pots and kettles so I'll stay quiet :-)

nice work mate when you say you use the X5 mop thing, does it come with a bunch of accessories to get to the harder to reach bits or you just using the shoot some steam at the fecker technique for areas like the boot shut etc?

they're superleggera :) much nicer wheel imo

engines require big money to gain anything tangeable really, best bet is just chuck a stainless exhaust on, decent panel filter in the airbox and RSTuner map it to get her running healthy and pretty much stock power (they always run lower than book tbh) cooksport or eibach sportline springs are...

you've already covered it in the question, replace top mounts with ones in link below, and add a standard 172 front lower gearbox mount http://www.vibra-technics.co.uk/renault/clio_1_18_williams and then get a polybush kit for the dogbone mount, or buy one from me, I have three in the shed...

yeah the mk3 is much more fuel hungry, its a far bigger and heavier car

had clios all my driving life, still do. 33 and run a 182 daily, 172 phase 1 on stock and 2x mk1 clio 16v as well owned around 15 clio I reckon, mostly 16v or Williams and sports for the mk2's think I have issues

yeah loads of people chuck them, but never heard of any other benefits above weight saving tbh

welcome back, hope this one proves to be the third times a charm type affair!

Think I have bad on tape somewhere aswell @Dr Jekyll mega!!

Cheers chap, yeah looking forward to using it, it's a nice thing!

#banter flol!!

You're both wrong, simples ;-)

Awful wheel choice ;-)

Lol! Wheel choice is always a little divisive ;-) different strokes n all that!

Yes yes you are ;-) They're not going anywhere I just hate them so they'll go back on be car when I sell it. I hate them nearly as much as 2118's

cheers ears! great looking cars the phase 1's, i'd forgotten how much I like them tbh since the last one 5 odd years ago had to be minidisc :) I've got loads of minidiscs and personal players, another hobby of mine! lol!

Right, cracked on today with a few jobs I wanted to do to the car. First job was to remove the solid engine mounts, engine side, gearbox side and dogbone in bits: Dephaser looking pretty new Standard mount going on Didn't get any more pics at this point but back together again...

That looks lovely!

It's only few bolts whip dash off, I'd then drill couple of holes and bond some nuts to the underside. Then you can use some small bolts through the camera mount and remove when not in use. If you did that with self tappers the holes are going to pull through pretty quick after couple of refits

If you wouldn't mind chap that'd be great, want to make sure I get the right one! @green

Thought so Not this one either is it @green?

Morning all I'm getting confused at to what stereo I should have in my later model phase 1 172 (Y plate) My old X plate phase 1 had a tape deck but not a tuner list one, looked older and more in keeping with the phase 1 interior. Can anyone shed any light on what should be fitted to what age...

Not usually required if its for recovery on track and you have a cage, pop boot open and tow from that with a strap

Cracking work :-)

lovely clean example right there :)

Tbh usually with these engines it's injectors

know for a fact mine needs doing as the area is no longer lovely RB blue but more fantastic Mr fox orange :-(