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Instead of the nitrous (or as well as) why not fit a biggger turbo at the time of building. @ 270 bhp the engine will have 330lbft which is not the nicest torque curve ever. With a bigger turbo you can see over 300bhp with less torque so less strain on the running gear too. Probs only cost...

Autoglym, Meguires etc?? Basically I want to get on with a bit of detailing and need some tar remover. I normally don't use it, I just use clay but last time I prep'd my car I found the 200 seems to be the worse car I have ever owned for tar, it really suffers around the rear quarter and the...

For the price of using a pro you can buy a DA or cheap rotary, all they gear you need and have years of low swirl mortoring. You can't stop swirls totally but using stuff like snow foam, gritgards, 2 buckets and good wax goes a long way to reducing them. You mentioned the age of the car...

Try a sample of Race Glaze 55, its a smaller pot at 15ml but same £5 and its far far better wax so in terms of months of protection you'll get more.

Should have said I agree with Willis though. You most likely will be OK but it will ruin your day if the brakes only last a few laps each time.

Poor fluid = poor brakes. You don't need dot 5.1, Motul RBF600 will do the job. You'll need 3 bottles, cheapest place I have seen is larkspeed.com. But it has been a while since I bought some.

Yes, do the sums for yourself. At 35mpg you'd expect about 420 from a 12 gallon tank but when mine read 35mpg I filled up after 450miles and it took a bit less than 12 gallons to fill it.

25(ish) but rememeber the trip reads under, you can add another 10% to the real figures.

I don't think "abilty" has anything to do with it. Its more down to more people tuning ford/vauxhall/VAG engines. People say the F4R does not tune very well but RS Tuning are running a R26.r at close to 500bhp. Put £10k in a 200 or £10k in a Fiesta ST and the power will be similar.

At 367bhp it won't be n/a!! Unless the 2 litre engine is now 2 R1 engines!!!

You just need to make it rev to about 9200rpm. Easier said than done ofcourse but a torque figure of 160lbft (which the 200 has) at 9200 gives 280bhp. (crudely rounded) You'd also need increase the gear ratios to fully feel the benefit. You'd still want to be topping out in each gear like you...

Its just winter blues. I always hate my car around this time of year. Its constantly filthy, I have little chance to clean it and when I do its freezing so I don't bother. The roads are cold and wet so can never enjoy the car. Its just a thirsty, dirty lump of French turd between November...

Corsa engine is not more flexible my engine has within 10% the same torque throughout the entire rev range, corsa doesnt. Boring low end grunt is not flexibility. The only thing wrong with the 200s engine is mpg.

You know what I use!!;) Zymol Concours

I don't get people's problem with the 133 espisode. Millions of people watched the worlds biggest car program say its a great liitle car. All for the price of a car that takes 10 hours to build and costs £13000 otr.

In all seriousness though is this gonna be more fun/faster than a track day car like a Atom or Radical assuming they can be had for £18k. Or even dropping a turbo in a road going 200. Don't get me wrong this will be a hoot and very fast but part of me thinks running one would be more about...

You're talking like people pay list for them new. Mine is probably worth £11500 after 17months but it cost £15250 and not £18700.

Worst thing about the locks is if the battery is flat ill have to smash a window to get into my car when its in the garage as the lazy French kept the emergency lock on the wrong side of the car.

Stick with the rotary. i have both and never use the da as it takes ages and the results ain't as good. Just always start light.

I don't like mitts. Grit gets stuck and its hard to see it too. i prefer using a Zymol sponge. It soaks dirt away from the surface of the sponge and its a sort of day glow green/yellow so really easy to make sure its clean. It also foams better than a mitt. A lot of people may say i should use...