The benefit of decent fuel, hard driving, and lots of miles

[MarkCup]

Lower curve was from a year ago, 19k miles having been driven mostly by the original OAP owners (so likely never seen over 3k rpm) and no doubt on standard 95 fuel.

Upper curve is from today...I've spent the last year putting 22k more miles on it (a daily 50 mile beasting on deserted country A and B roads), given it 4 trackdays, and a nice diet of 99 RON fuel.

185 bhp becomes 196 bhp.

:approve:

I pity Renaultsport Clios that do low miles and never do trackdays...they'll never realise their full potential.

 

[Russ_16v]

Thats a lot better Mark!

 

[Matthew]

Standard mate?

 

[Fletcher]

Good figures today Mark!

 

[realnumber 1]

Good improvement! Do you actually notice it when driving?

 

[Richyy182]

Like.

 

[Lawro]

Nice figures, great improvement!

 

[MarkCup]

Standard mate?

Yup, from the exhaust right down to the paper air filter.

Good improvement! Do you actually notice it when driving?

The figure today wasn't a surprise...i thought it would be around 190 or so. Compared to how it felt when I first got it in Dec 2011 yes...it's noticeably keener.

 

[Djw John]

Similar to our 225, ran 231 weeks after we got it, a year later, same rollers, similar weather, 243bhp. Care for them and kick their heads in and they just get better!

 

[Flat Eric]

Good results.
Are torque curves always like that on 197/200's?
Similar to curve on a rs2 1*2 by the looks of it.

 

[DannyR]

Always found the high miler F4Rs seem to of loosened up nicely and have good figures. Seems they take about 100k to fully wear into the book figures!

 

[MarkCup]

Always found the high miler F4Rs seem to of loosened up nicely and have good figures. Seems they take about 100k to fully wear into the book figures!

Well, I'll be back there every year for a RR run while I own it and that's likely to be for at least another 3 or 4 years, so I should end up with a nice chart showing year on year gains as the miles pile on.

One day it might even make the claimed 200 LOL