RS Tuner, Matched inlets, or sportscat?

[chris blue]

As I have a Phase 1 Clio 172 Y reg for a track toy, Ive decided I can spend a Grand (£1k) ish a year on playing around with it, and where possible include track time of half dozen shows and track days a year

The budget was pretty much blown this year for the belts, dephaser etc etc which came in around £625, the rest went on a couple tyres (AD08r's) track days and track time at shows. (I don't count the cost of hotels, fuel, meals to keep wife happy etc etc) with one a lydden and one at Brands, in addition to Blyton, to go. (I may go a tidge over a Grand ;-)

Bcos the car is year 2001 I am not going mad, and the final things I would like to do before considering anything else, is matched inlets (I have a bored out throttle body which may help), RS Tuner remap, and a sportscat or legal easyflow cat (CBA to keep taking a decat pipe off)

So, what do i do first- am thinking RS Tuner. But I do have a set of matched inlets, which, whilst I can see the smoothing work done to the ports, really cant see than making any noticeable difference to torque as some suggest?

And a sportscat, some say that the phase 2 172 Cat, which I think ive got, was pretty close to minimum amount of Cells you can get away with anywhere

What you think?

 

[bloke]

matched inlets do actually make a difference, not massive though. for the pissing round with the rs tuner jst get propper map on it.

what cat? twin or later single?

 

[Greeny.]

The phase 1 twin barrel cat was always the one to go for but they are fairly rare as they come in two lengths iirc. Failing that a 182 cat with a manifold to match but probably not worth it in all honesty, a decat does sod all on a mildly modded car really other than creating noise so changing to another cat that flows slightly better isn’t going to make a noticeable difference imo.

Out of those options though I would go for the matched inlets and perhaps a different filter setup depending on what you already have.

 

[bozothenutter]

bring the suspension back to as new mate, shocks, bushes etc...

 

[chris blue]

matched inlets do actually make a difference, not massive though. for the pissing round with the rs tuner jst get propper map on it.

what cat? twin or later single?

I have a phase 2 172 cat on it , single pipe
Thought about a proper map, but the engines done just on 100k and with a tuner, if the engine struggles could revert to OEM?

The phase 1 twin barrel cat was always the one to go for but they are fairly rare as they come in two lengths iirc. Failing that a 182 cat with a manifold to match but probably not worth it in all honesty, a decat does sod all on a mildly modded car really other than creating noise so changing to another cat that flows slightly better isn’t going to make a noticeable difference imo.

Out of those options though I would go for the matched inlets and perhaps a different filter setup depending on what you already have.

Have a RAMair filter, S pipe 76mm hose to throttle body.

bring the suspension back to as new mate, shocks, bushes etc...

Coilovers or shocks n new springs not a bad idea, but it does need more torque. Throttle not as reactive as I would like it to be, takes a split second sometime, and there are a couple flatspots- lots noise but no speed increase

 

[bozothenutter]

Throttlebody might actually not help...

I was actually talking about wishbones and bushes.
Maybe add in a throttlecable, sparkplugs etc....