Recent content by burrellbloke

I have only been to Mallory Park once, it was earlier this year. The car did two sessions before the slave died and the car was recovered all the way back to Essex. The car spec looks really good. Are you a fan of PBS brakes? I have always run Ferodo pads in my Clio and find that DS1.11s in the...

I paid £1,250 for a full Akra system (the mid section and back box) 5 years ago. They no longer make them so they don't come up for sale very often. The Toyo manifold is probably not worth very much.

The tyres are on ready for a wet day at Donington Park. Four brand new tyres and fitting costing a little bit less than my usual monthly mortgage payment! We will probably need another set in 6 months time.

The Clio has had it's fluids changed ready for the next track day. The engine oil and gearbox oil had not been changed since June when the Clio had it's summer European trip to the Nurburgring. We purchased some more Fuchs Titan Race Pro S as it has always served us well. A genuine Renault...

Welcome. Surely you are not going to keep the engine standard - what are your plans?

When we installed the PMS top mounts we were left with a small problem that the original OEM top mount covers would not fit back over the PMS top mounts. The PMS top mounts come with longer bolts that attach to the chassis so that you can fit a strut bar. It was these longer bolts that stopped...

It all depends on what needs replacing. When my box was done recently it needed the whole 3/4 and 5/6 synchro hub replaced which were expensive as parts compared to just the synchros. Labour is usually expensive for a gearbox rebuild as it takes a while to remove it from the car. The last...

I have sorted through the video footage that I captured last week and there are some okay videos. The exposure on the GoPro forward facing camera is a bit crap. This is a good ten minutes of Wes and @EthanMenace during the morning. Ethan's hot lap Ethan's third session on track...

This was my last encounter with a deer. It wrote off my liquid yellow Megane 280 when I hit it at 70 mph.

Another one saved.

I bought some MSV photos.

I have no experience of using a helical style diff in a Clio. There are a few users on this site have got helical diffs in their Clios. The Gripper is a plated diff and my understanding is that it is more aggressive, but with that added aggression you get noise. My car sounds broken when it...

Here are some more of Martin's photos. The Clio going through Bombhole. By the end of the day I managed to go through this corner flat in fourth. Clio train coming through Brundle and Nelson. Bridge shot. Front end squat. Here is some evidence of my overtaking another car.

Thanks Martin - great photos.

The Clio went to Snetterton today for a Sunday track day. The Clio had last been used on a track day about 3 months ago at the end of June 2025 so a track day was well overdue. The Clio had had its interior stripped and we had installed new PMS top mounts since the last track day. We had also...