Recent content by RSRowe

A huge difference. A helical equipped car won't see what way you've gone by the time you get to the first corner. In fact, my pals gripper equipped 197 could easily out-accelerate my OEM LSD Megane out of corners, despite having over 100 more bhp and however much torque. The performance is...

Me and the boys had the aggressive load grippers in our Clios for a number of years without a drop in performance, but we were exclusively trailering our cars to and from track. Looking at MOT history, I was doing ~2500 miles a year on track in mine. Gav does alot of road miles in his, and...

The car wouldn't run if all coils were open to ground. Perhaps this is from the compression test which has recently been done.

No I mean the swivel joints (there is an upper and lower). The lower beginning to fail is generally per the noise you described. Bush can be found here if you want to go down that rabbit hole...

There's no real way to tell, other than fitting the new parts and listening out for the noise again. Rack problems are fairly rare, but can happen. The noise you describe sounds like it could be an issue with one of the swivel joints.

Fair enough. It's just very odd to see all cylinders consistently low. But the results are the results. I'd still get them verified with a leak down test personally.

That still doesn't feel low to me, but the wet test will back up your suspicions.

Depends on how you want to use the car. For strictly road, if you have lowering springs, I would steer away from them and use the non-cup 197 shocks.

It's possible that there is some internal differences, but I can't see that being the case personally. As you've seen, both are 200 cup shock part numbers, so I'd just go with whatever is cheapest (which is what I did when I fitted the 200 cup shocks to my ff 197)...

I didn’t notice much of a noise change on the V6 box, but possibly because the exhaust was so noisy. Car looks unreal.

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Yellowstuff are very poor, not what I'd recommend. A complete waste of money. A Mintex M1144 or M1155 would be way more suitable for your application (M1155 front and M1144 rear is a great combination). I can't answer your questions around dust and disc wear, but by their very nature, you would...

Well you either start it up and hope it passes through without damaging anything, or take it apart to retrieve the errand piece :tearsofjoy:

It will still crank with crank sensor failed. Battery needs load testing properly. If that's ok, the battery fuses. If they're ok, then start looking through the power cables and earths.

Well the shafts are the same, so you'll possibly be in the same situation again. The gearing will be completely to shit (if you didn't already know).