New to the French pocket rockets

[MattStevo]

Hi there,

I have just bought my first french car, a 197 and what a way to introduce me to it. Have a BMW E90 325d auto as a daily so the 197 is a weekend toy, fast B roads and the occasional track day.

Cambelt has been done twice in its life.

Any advice/mods to do would be great.

Cheers

 

[sevenfourate]

Hi there,

I have just bought my first french car, a 197 and what a way to introduce me to it. Have a BMW E90 325d auto as a daily so the 197 is a weekend toy, fast B roads and the occasional track day.

Cambelt has been done twice in its life.

Any advice/mods to do would be great.

Cheers

Welcome and congrats.

Unless you’re gonna Meg the engine for more power: fettle the handling and enjoy the twisty bits.....

 

[Foxspeed]

welcome

 

[Pav]

welcome aboard..sure you will find lots of helpful info on here...

 

[Johnny 99]

Hi there,

I have just bought my first french car, a 197 and what a way to introduce me to it. Have a BMW E90 325d auto as a daily so the 197 is a weekend toy, fast B roads and the occasional track day.

Cambelt has been done twice in its life.

Any advice/mods to do would be great.

Cheers

Welcome along. You have chosen an ideal B road occasional track day toy! I've just had to sell mine for various reasons & I wish I hadn't had to. Enjoy her for now but in the future consider Powerflex engine mounts to help save the exhaust flexis on the manifold from failing. Cooksport lowering springs were a great mod for relatively little money that I did on mine. Best mod I did was a Quaife diff, but relatively expensive, great on track though!

 

[petercronin]

Welcome along.

 

[Big Ben]

Welcome aboard. Great cars when on song. Enjoy

 

[MattStevo]

Thanks alot guys. I am loving it so far. Brakes seem to be fairly questionable so they need some attention.

 

[Beany]

Welcome

 

[matt9566]

Welcome to the forum!