Looking at getting another Sport.

[Mike_P]

Hi, I'm new to the forum. I owned a 172 Cup about 6 years ago, which was great fun to drive as you lot all know.

Now my issue is when I had mine it was under warrenty, and when it was warm it used to knock when pulling away hard, so I kept taking it back to Renault who seemed pretty clueless, and they never fixed it.

I'm now a Vauxhall man, and have a 20XE Corsa with throttle bodies, which I use for fast road and track days, which I broke on Friday again.

I've now been thinking I wouldn't mind another one, but the gearbox is my main worry because I'll want a Quaife diff, how do they hold up to being worked hard?

I'll also want to do a few other light mods, but keep it useable.

Some help would be nice, thank you.

 

[Revels]

That fault would have been engine mounts.

Not sure on the other questions, but someone else will know. Welcome too.

 

[Mike_P]

How do you mean? The knocking? It did it the first day a picked it up.

 

[Spark]

Yeah, crap engine mounts, its just the engine moving.

 

[Mike_P]

So, if I fit poly engine mounts that should help?

 

[Russ_16v]

Yes that can help, though a few tweaks can help - new standard mounts, combined with polybushed dogbone mount (under the car) and the o/s enfine mount adjusted right (you can pull them backward and forward) helps massively - and much much cheaper than the uprated ones

 

[EngineerD]

polybushed dogbone mount (under the car)

Only thing that ever solved my knocking, best £25 ever.

 

[Chad_Hogan]

Buy one with religious servicing and it'll be reet.