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I had Redline before, so might be worth ago. The invoice also says 2 piece clutch so I wonder if the friction plate is relatively heavy relative to "normal"?

Much as the title says. For anyone that knows my car, it has stratospheric miles, but much like Trigger's broom there is very little in the drive train that is original now. What was still good after all those miles was the gearbox, no clunks or any issues. As it has had a slippy diff fitted...

KTec inlet, exhaust manifold and cat, Miltek back box, kitchen sink and 405 cams.

Very durable aren't they. It does look like you are spinning that right up slightly.

If you use more curb on both apex and exit you will straighten the corner and take the immediate pressure off needing a diff. If you imagine a string round the bottom of the steering wheel to the toe on your right foot, then you can only apply throttle as you are steering out the corner. You can...

Cause of the miss fire / hesitancy resolved. There appeared to be some random latency that was happening at moderate throttle, or in reality pressure. However a replacement sensor and all sorted. Thank you Engine Dynamics.

So as quick little update. I wrote elsewhere about the handling on the road and that I was finding it somewhat perturbing as if the suspension could no longer cope. Last Thursday we were at Snetterton and I have to say it now makes far more sense. I have always wanted this car to remain drivable...

So the Clio of Epic Sluggishness becomes the Clio of Epic Noise! Shades of a BDA!

For that matter the Dunlop was tested last and it was pretty slippy in the morning when we got to go out at 9:35

Apart from the MRF was the second tyre out in the morning and the AR1 was tested after lunch.

Are you sitting comfortably? There have been numerous test tyres that have got into the wild but as far as the wider public is concerned the compound was H1, which for arguments sake I will call hard, even though it was not. Some of these tyres were marked Super Hard, but only because the...

I will start this by saying, I absolutely know that the car needs to be checked for what it is at the moment, because I don't have a scooby, but I am hoping the issue does lay in the alignment. So if you are sitting comfortably! In March the Clio of Epic Sluggishness went to a garage to become...

While I am on this. The Nitto Nankang "test" is one of those things that tries to over analyse and ends up creating "Internet knowledge" Comparing a used tyre against a worn tyre is never valid. This is wronger than a wrong thing in wrong custard! "The car has been running a set of 205 40 17...

Long post alert! I have been involved in many many tyre tests. Weight has never, ever been a consideration over the attributes of the tyre and how it delivers driver feel, lap time and consistency. With the examples above, what is the comparison apart from weight? When you consider that the...

Not sure where you would expect to go with this and what you would expect to achieve by knowing weights. They are all going to be about 11Kg and they will all lose around 0.75Kg for each mm of tread wear.

‍ Not a clue.

If I didn't know any different, I would say it drives exactly as it did before. There is no lack of flexibility. I notice exactly what it shows in the torque curve. There is noticeably stronger pick-up at 3K then you feel the slight lack of urgency as it gets to 4K. At 5K though it picks up its...

I thought I had posted this up already, but can't see it.

As far As far as I know, yes.

These are the 405 cams, but not just a case of bolting them in. It is the follower and hydraulic lifter kit as well. Plus a K Tech inlet, exhaust and cat, with Miltek from the cat back.