Except bushes, arb, geo, steering
Basic maintainance that I do on daily drivers personally.
Look lovely but with so little power totally unrequired, look at the burpspeed car for example, decently maintained stanard brakes with good pads would be fine, but no actual harm in the 4 pots so keep them.
Less weight of course will improve lap times, which does matter in a competition although I cant see particuarly does on a trackday, you should put back some of the stuff that makes it more pleasant on the road though IMHO.
roll cage, chassis stiffening
The clio chassis is pretty stiff anyway, those things do make a little difference but its still perfectly possible to have a lot of fun without them
Indeed, like I said you have bolted on some bodies, that does help on track
Donington lap time of 1:31 in the wet - on worn road tyres. Looking at last years tin top timing that's competitive even without a diff.
I suspect their wet was a lot more wet than yours TBH mate, bit silly comparing wet laps from different days, but if its a trackday car are laptimes the b-all and end-all anyway?
I think we'll have to agree to disagree here. You don't need 280bhp to be quick on track.
Well it helps in terms of meaning you can enjoy the more mild corners, but I agree that its not a requirement so god knows why you think I have said it is, that certainly isnt what I typed, I love driving the mrs car on track and thats still a perfect road car.
I agree I should have fitted a diff by now but it's next on the list.
Yes, its a total no brainer in that it improves track performance and yet if you go for a quaiffe has NO downside as a road car.
The mrs daily is getting one too at some point for that reason although at the moment she wont spend the money (we go halves on everything for it as we both use it)
They REALLY aren't - even before the cage was fitted and the new coilovers at the renaultsport day at Brands Hatch there was only 1 other car quicker than mine - the standard 172/182's and 197/200's were no-where close. Even the megane 250 was struggling to keep up.
With 25bhp more of course you are going to be a bit quicker on track, as I said the bodies are a good mod as if mapped correctly they dont ruin it on the road.
The way you keep banging on about laptimes rather than how much fun you have though, you sound more like you think your clio is a race car just cause it kept up with a badly built one and beats some road cars, I think if you went out now against some actual race cars you'd soon spot the difference though TBH
You've made some good improvements like the coilovers and bodies and to upgrade the brakes (although TBH better pads would have done 90% of the good at 25% of the cost) and Im not saying to get rid of any of that, just sack off the god awful noisey exhaust that doesnt improve performance over a decent quiet one, and put some basic creature comforts back in, and it will still do as well on track but without being horrid on the road, and obviously fit a diff, I really cant understand why anyone would be silly enough to spend thousands of pounds on a trackday clio without one! I can only assume you have never driven a clio in the wet with one? As once you have you will never go back
Now that bit I do agree with, it would be quicker thanks to the diff and a comfier place to be
Most of what you have done is ok, its really not that far from being a decent all rounder.
