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Are you running it in the SB class Colin?

15"? Got some yokohama s drives here, and some toyos @bloke

Worst is welding rusty old banger racers and having a big blob of splatter go down the front of your boots and stop on the top of your foot! Surprising how quick you can get a boot off!

HRX racer seats. Sooo comfy

first impressions it looks like a Civic on steroids

Could be a good challenge and another box to tick. So far I have done...... Road rallies Stage rallies Rallycross Sprints Hillclimbs Comp safaris Landrover trials So perhaps endurance racing is next!!

Can I be a test driver?

Links or it didn't happen!

Last 172 I bought with a knackered engine was 600

Sell it on here as a project for someone

I didn't have a good seeding that day so got held up a bit by a mini on the merges, would have probably got 2nd in class instead of 4th as I was only 4 seconds off. I should sell the car now really as ive ticked the manx box which was my plan but fancy doing something else so we shall see. It's...

Yes I've known Brandon for years, I used to codrive for him too. Bcs on the bonnet as he lent me his van to go across to the IOM. I did the Adgespeed stages rally in it this year. If you went to sprints there, that would have been me my old car. @K_McDermott

Springs will be fine as you don't carry lots of weight . At least steels probably don't need insurance change either.

Nope, just a standard brake hose diameter.

I did the Bleed valve thing on my old 205 rally cars, as all the port threads etc were equal, I just did the short length to a T piece on the clio as it was easy enough and had the bits while the engine was out.

If you intend on doing that, just get a garage with a brake tester to help you set the balance. Once it is equal, Mark the dials and then turn them the same amount each time for more or less rear bias. Yes oem does have twin lines to the rear, but easier for me to use only 1 line to rear...

The rear lines come out of the m/c, to a T piece. Then a single line to a bulkhead fitting. From that to the bios valve, then hydraulic handbrake, to the rear of the car. Bulkhead fitting to a T piece on the rear beam then out to both rear calipers with banjo fittings.

Faulty compensator sounds like it passes fluid with the pedal then it is not letting it return to the m/c properly meaning a build up of back pressure on the caliper. The bit of pressure it has is leaving that caliper on and is heating up the disc.

Proper bit of kit, well over 200+ bhp I think, sequential box, reiger suspension etc @EVOgone

I just used the stainless m10 x 1mm stuff from Demon Tweeks as it's just down the road from me. You can probably get it cheaper on ebay or something just shopping around.

Definitely longer at least, but it's still odd how they have softened up so much. Since being fitted I have wound them up 75mm and it still goes lower. Only got 25mm of adjustment thread left.

Just found the Special Stage Rally coverage of Rally Isle of Man. Im on it at 6.30 and 11.45. It might have already been on Motors TV, if not, it will be in the near future. @George@RTR_Parts

Seats wise and the comfiest I have ever had are my current seats, and all those that have been in the car will agree with how comfy they are. HRX Racer seats http://www.rally-shop.si/en/seats/1118-hrx-hr-vo-race-race-seat.html

Will have to look into that. I sold my last RARB with the old shell/car

No ARB on this one, although I could have done with one at the weekend as I used to sprint at Wigan and always had an ARB. I don't use a Whiteline any more as it hangs down too low for rough and bumpy stages. I want to try a PMS ARB as it goes above the beam so less likely to get caught/damaged...

Heres a pic from Sunday. The tyres (Michelin medium rally tyres) were certainly hanging on going round Lunar!! Almost hitting the rim!

Looking at doing the Glyn Memorial stages at Anglesey end of November

Saying that, the dampers are alright, I was just bottoming out the springs I need to get a longer, harder spring for the front, and something different for the rear

I ran out of money so Bilstein had to do. Still won the class but would have liked to go faster and finish higher up. The car did it's job and finished the rally, that's the main thing.

Lights were new headlamps with 100w bulbs in all, Hella gas discharge lamps (left lense is a spot, right is a drive) and an LED light bar that cost £40 on ebay!