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It's a bit hard to tell but they might be bigger discs as well, standard size is 259mm and I think there were 4 different size discs available with the Hi-Spec caliper kits back in the day so measuring those discs on it will be useful info for selling the calipers

Get Magnetti Marelli as they're OEM but just make sure they're genuine & from a reputable seller as there's lots of fakes about

I'd say have a look at a policy of it's own for the fiesta with zero NCB Only say that as all my NCB (10 years) is used for my 172 Cup with limited mileage & I'm paying £193 but my daily is a normal 172, 10k miles a year and it's £230 with zero NCB - so it might not be as bad as you think 🤷‍♂️

Depends what the end result you're after looks wise is tbh, on my Williams I was after as close to OEM finish as possible so went with paint But on my track car I wasn't bothered about looks/finish & wanted something durable & cheap so went with gloss black powdercoat

I don't actually know tbh, all I do know is that's it's a period correct race spec engine as he does hill climbs & sprints in it so it's got to be the right spec for the class he runs in

At my workshop and the guy next door is driving about in this

I'm guessing it was probably a comparison to the early ph1 & ph1.5 Valver seats as you sit more on top of them rather than in them

The Williams and ph2 Valvers have the exact same seats, just a different cloth pattern but they certainly are the best of the bunch It was the leather seat option in the Valver that used the R19 front seats

Bordanovasport are spot on, I've bought loads of Williams bits from them over the years

Possibly or perhaps maybe not, just puts it into perspective from a manufacturing point of view what it takes & costs to produce a version of car that's significantly lighter. A brilliant example of this is to look at the lengths Renault went to so they could keep the weight down on the new...

Because 80kg less weight is a f**king huge amount to begin with & there's got to be some serious thought & engineering gone into it under the surface to get to that point, Lamborghini used to do a Gallardo that weighed 100kg less & they charged an extra £30k for that because of the effort...

You do get freaky ones from time to time, a mate of mine had a silver 172 Cup with aircon & completely standard it made 184bhp at Surrey Rolling Road, as it was due a belt he then took it to Ktec for cams & a map & it then made 186bhp 🤣

Breathing mods (exhaust etc) along with cams from a 197/200 and a map gets you in that sort of region Can't be 100% sure with the weight figures as mk1's are more my area of knowledge but doors are most certainly worth the effort replacing, on the later Mk1 Clios, a normal door weighs 38kg and...

No, because then I'd have to build another one & I seriously cba to do it all over again 🤣

It was whilst the engine was coming out to do the rear main I was contacted by Beanie offering to sell me his Sadev 6 speed sequential gearbox, so I managed to beg, borrow, steal and do a part ex with my freshly rebuilt Gripper diffed box to get my mitts on the Sadev Took a fair amount of...

I thought I'd updated this a hell of a lot less than 4 years ago 😳 Made a few changes to the car since the last update & tested them all out at Bedford last week............................current power from when it was mapped at EFI Parts in 2017 is 225bhp 171 ft/lb but it needs to go back...

The 150 piece set is £85 atm as well

Because I know him and I've royally taken the pi5s out of him enough times over the years so it's just friendly payback, was after the 4th or 5th time he went past that he'd run out of ideas & just shrugged his shoulders lol! As for the car, based on what happened I'm thinking maybe 4th gear...

Head off Thankfully the mesh filter in the oil pickup did it's job & stopped any piston debris from getting into the rest of the engine & causing any more damage Sump off The only 3 pieces left of what was once a piston & 1 of those big lumps was wedged between the block &...

1st job was to drop all the fluids. My car has a magnetic sump plug & when I undone it I was greeted by quite a lot of water which seemed odd at the time, then came the oil followed by a bit of light being shed upon what damage I'd done Once I'd got the downpipe off, I crawled out from...

Time for a little update. I failed to get my track car ready for a trackday at Castle Combe back in June so ended up taking the ATR. Because 2 of my semi slick tyres were buggered I eneded up taking just 2, fitting them to the front and putting my most worn Potenzas on the back and all I can...

This is due an update Just for the lolz, hovercar y0! Super dooper new & better fitting radiator made by Radtec 8 week delay courtesy of Piper being useless, sending wrong lifters then telling porkies that the correct replacements had been made & sent but head fully rebuilt, 16 new...

182 Cup wishbones are the weapon of choice for the extra castor

172 springs are a direct replacement for Williams springs

The mk2 subframe is also different, 182 cup wishbones also look identical but it's tiny differences that are only noticeable if you take lots of detailed & accurate measurements between them that make up the bigger picture

It's massively less restrictive than the supersprint that used to be on it nevermind the OEM one lol!

That made a tent in my trousers, if that was in front of me I'd be licking it quite a lot tbqfhwy :tongueout:

Here's a better pic of the manifold now it's off the car, 1st time I've actually been able to see it properly lol

She's in the workshop now A couple of pics of the sexy as fcuk manifold and a pic of the ride height with no engine in

Looking back on my short stint of ATR ownership so far, I've done quite a fair bit to it so I thought it'd be worth collating it together How it all started, with a bit of a scabby front end but mechanically good Several months of pretty much hassle free motoring passed with only fitting new...