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mine has rattlled a couple times now on startup after its been stood for a while so am thinking when i do the cambelt, i might get the dephaser replaced at the same time

I bought some brembo pads from eBay for a similar price and I have thought for a while they probably aren't genuine. They are fine for normal road use but I have some hot judder when I push hard which is normally caused by the pad material not heating the disc evenly

standard brembo pads hot judder is usually caused by the disks not being at a constant temp across its face so a pad change (with more metal content) usually sorts this i have no judder at all during normal driving, its only when i get them really hot

I have hot judder when pushing hard, going to try a better pad

I have grooved and dimpled black edition and happy with mine, they are noisy though but it's the grooves as mentioned

yes indeed, the black remains on the area not swept by the pads including the bottom of the grooves, works well

apologies my car is filthy but gives you an idea

Yeah I have the dimpled and grooved black edition on the front of my 197, fine on std pads but going to change to ds2500 soon as I get fade when pushing on

I have one for sale if your interested??

Fine so far but have only used them with stock pads, wouldn't recommend them for track use until I have tested them with better pads. The black coating is great though and keeps them looking smart

they told me 4 months ago they would have stock in 4 weeks

There was an r26 conversion on eBay recently for £1300, don't think it sold, that's gearbox with LSD, complete engine, ECU so yeah engines seem to be very cheap

Sorry but what I do to my car is based on facts not keyboard warrior opinions

That may have been there intention but for this climate in my opinion they made a mistake, I am much happier with my car now but rather than us all just sitting around discussing theory without any practical, I will do some logging with the RS tuner and see what the actual temps are during some...

Yes that's a very respectable power to weight ratio, do you have the meg gearbox and trick diff fitted also?

Anyone weighed their clio with the Meg engine fitted? Am guessing its a pretty good power to weight ratio even at standard power

While those rules are true to some extent, there is a narrow window where they apply. Too cold and the engine will waste energy on each cycle heating itself up. A cooler engine should be more det resistant allowing more ignition advance and more power. It's generally considered that 82 is...

Could be lots of reasons, as always with cars, they are always a compromise. But Ktec sell the 182 thermostat for all models so that was enough to put my mind at rest. It gets up to temp in minutes now, just wanted to adjust the temp the fan kicks in but if it's ECU controlled I won't be able...

I don't have aircon, it's a 197 cup