Newbie with 172 Cup

[StandardMatt]

Hi all,

Picked up my 172 Cup on wednesday. What a big difference between this and my old car that ive owned for nearly 3 years (vtr, pic below).

I am loving it, engine is fantastic! :approve: Its a may 2003 model with nearly 40k on it! Paid £3850 for it for those who might want to know!

The exhaust knocking is getting on my nerves, fixed the rear bracket as shown in the guide section which hasnt fixed anything :dapprove: upon closer inspection it sounds like its coming from between the middle and front of the car........ any ideas where its coming from??

Also after some spirited driving on friday the back end felt very 'floaty' was thinking it must be the dampers, so might uprate whole lot to H & Rs if i can.

Another thing thats bugging me is the engine mounts...... is it worth uprating these? If so which ones are recommended?

Pics of my beloved vtr :dapprove: very sad to see it go but its time to move on to bigger and better things!

Cant wait to get the little niggles sorted so I can maybe get it on a couple of trackdays!

Thanks Matt

 

[McMillan]

very nice,

I'm after a nice standard one too, yours looks great

 

[172_Cup_Lew]

hey :approve:

fellow Cup noob myself, ive had probably every VAG 1.8T car under the sun before this, this is the first NA car ive ever had, still getting used to waiting to 5k revs before any power comes lol, but it makes up for that in the corners, its like a little go kart!

 

[Joshua.J]

They private number plates on your clio and vtr cause the first bit is the same on both?

 

[StandardMatt]

Haha no, its just a coincidence they are the same :approve:

 

[Fletcher]

Looks good.

H&R coilovers are great

 

[WILLIE]

Look's lovely and in good nick too.