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Thankfully I can now turn my attention away from the family car the Q7, fresh MOT and near 400BHP of twin turbo diesel V8 goodness put to bed for the next while. Focus is back on the Clio. The 16 x 8 inch wheels are now on, ET25, no spacers and fits fine, fronts only, the rears are 16 x 7...

Was setting up my camera's as something to do in the middle of some upgrades for the Q7, and getting my wife's new workplace ready, and recorded an acceleration vid of the Clio on a nice flat bit of private road I have access to, the camera's built in mic cant handle the noise. I need an...

Not much going on at the moment as i've been waiting to get through the MOT, put it in on monday and it failed on a corroded brake pipe, the long one that runs across the rear beam. It looked fine apart from where the pipe sat in the clips where the paint had stripped and the pipe had swollen up...

Managed to free off the rear adjusters, was a lot of dirt packed in around the knob. So liberal amounts of gt85 and a pick got it out, then a blast of shock spray with some gentle back and forth with grips and I have bump adjustment again. My spine is grateful!

Been looking back over the graph's and its crazy how bad the AFR get's after 2500rpm until it clears up around 3000-3500rpm, its not a problem on circuit as you are never really in this area, but it does make you look a bit of a fool pulling out a junction sometimes.. but its all good I had a...

have made some small progress since last update. Weight is down to around 1080kg and working on taking some more out. The alloy seat mount has held up fine to all manner of driving situations and remains completely rigid which is good. Gave the engine and gearbox an oil change with some...

Ok cool wishful thinking, they haven’t been adjusted in over 8 years so probably rebuild is the only option then

Hi, those of you with KW V3 coilovers i cant adjust the bump on the rear shocks, do you need to take the load off the shocks before adjusting? or are they as i suspect seized up. I've cleaned out all the dirt, and sprayed a lot of GT85 onto them but no luck so far. Rebound adjust on the top is fine.

I agree, when making my own I didnt slot the rear bolt mount and kept it a fairly snug fit for the bolt with at least 10mm of material in any direction supporting it. because of the loads on that area and I used 5mm 6080 alloy so if mine do fail I don't believe it will be in this area, My...

what is the thickness of those aluminium mounts and what is the thickness of material between the holes where it collapsed? Wonder what alloy was used. interested as i've made my own seat mounts from aluminium and so far holding up fine

yeah i was referring to the change in et ending up; being 5mm over my current wheels, bad wording, it hopefully wont quite be 17.7mm as the shoulder of the tyre will come into play, but I wont know until I have tyres on if I have an issue and camber also plays its part

Et25 which will mean they stick out 5 more than the current 16x7 et40 with a 10mm spacer, but as these are 16x8 I’m expecting to have some issues with the arches, won’t know till I get some tyres on them

In my head, I class everything I've done to the car up to now as phase 1 which is complete. The new seats and seat mounts are phase 2 beginning and i've got a few different things that I'm working on that may or may not come to fruition. One of the things is to implement a 16x8 wheel and...

After having the car weighed its inspired me to have another round of weight saving, one thing that always bothered me was my seat mounts which were pretty heavy at 6.5kg per side, and I wanted to sit a little higher as I've never been truly happy with the height of the seat. I checked round...

About time I got on with this car again. finally dealt with the manifold rubbing the arb, I had power flex inserts in all the mounts, kept trying to adjust the engine position to get the clearance but even if I did it never lasted and it was rubbing again. Found that the dogbone small end where...

Can anyone who has direct to floor side mounts for bucket seats tell me the height from where they meet the floor to the top hole centre? I currently have a mix of base mount/side mounts but its too low for me, and I already asked Pure motorsport but theirs works out lower than my current...

Knocked up a quick spec, its covered almost exactly 1000 miles since its mot last April, so any new or rebuilt parts listed have only done about 1000 miles. I didn't have kids when I started this build... Build is pretty well documented with pictures etc and has been done using OEM Renault parts...

Hi all, thinking of selling this, with a young family, needing a bigger house and living so far from any track its just not getting used more than a couple dozen days a year and is mostly sitting around. Its running great with a great spec including cup racer front subframe and has the parts...

ah forgetting i'm on a 205/45/16 tyre so slightly smaller, I am 32mm over standard with no problems but that will be why.

Bola b2r in 17x7.5 is apparently 7.8kg and about £150 a wheel. Not a bad balance of weight and cost. I went down to a 16 to save weight and money, not entirely straightforward though .