Recent content by Dowling93

No idea how he does it so much on his back, it's a right pain in the ass!

I'll see you there someday @turkie172 . I'm at pretty much all the ones run by trackdays.ie Yeah the starter is protected for now I'll just have to keep an eye on it. Never knew the heat shields were different, thought mine had the leg cut off it from diagrams I was looking at! I've the...

It's ridiculous! My tires are a bit old at this stage to be chasing times but I've a fresh set ordered so I'll be able to see exactly how much of a time difference it can make.

I blew the main fuse after 5 laps at the last trackday The heat shield came in contact with the manifold and shorted it out, disaster but the diff and gearbox felt way better than before so at least I got to test it! Ordered a new one from Ktec and got a spare from Renault also as I didn't...

I found the towing gave me less worries about binning it seen as now I always have a way of getting it home in one piece or many pieces

Got the new starter and fuse the other day and went to fit them last night Turns out yes it was the fuse but the car is no longer a bit lazy to start either with the new starter so I'll take a win when I can get them! With those both replaced it fired up no issues so I'll make the trackday...

Yeah I may just resort to the loctite approach and leave it at that and hope for the best. Cheers!

Went to start the Clio the other day and it turns out I let the heat shield earth off it and the manifold and I killed it! Ordered a new one so it should be here this week. Not a bad job to do took all of 20 minutes to take all apart and take it out. 2 bolts on the gearbox side, 1 nut on the...

Over the Christmas break I began to tackle taking out the old gearbox and putting in the new one with the Blackline LSD and new clutch 2 post lift made it far easier this time along with a transmission jack. Didn't take off the suspension subframe, not by choice I'll add j couldn't get the rack...

I now have 3 gearboxes for this exact reason

Going to disappoint some of yee now but I picked up a good gearbox with a blackline diff in it for decent money over the weekend so it's not a gripper Being in Ireland means I needed to get a ferry and an 9 hour round trip drive from Holyhead to near Luton. Still works out about half or more of...

Would either of yee say that there is much of a difference between the helical style diffs and the gripper? That's decent milage before needing to service it which would sway me a lot!

That's not too bad then! I was thinking a yearly thing. I'm guessing when you do end up replacing the plates you may as well freshen the box each time with new seals and bearings. Is it an easy job to do yourself if you had the time and patience? It would be the aggressive one I'd go for seen...

Yeah I know, I've been putting it off for ages at this point. I'd love a gripper but the maintenance is putting me off one I won't lie so a quaife or blackline is my thinking. You've got a gripper in yours haven't you?

Did the 1st trackday with the new gear linkage installed during the week and it really does make some difference to the gear changes. I can't hear or feel a crunch anymore so I've no idea if it's still there or gone or just me ignoring it and changing a bit slower now It took a while to get...