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Best of luck, looks a nice car, but I'd consider winding the power and torque back a bit, mine was mapped to a 'safe' 300/300 with it slightly rich at the top end to give some added protection on track, long story short I did four engines and finally got shut.

197 Megane powered 300/300 I built And 197 I picked up last week to keep na for track days

We use Mission Darkness faraday bags for our landrover (got them from amazon), work perfectly, car won't open if you're stood next to it with the keys in the pouch

I removed the rear rubber strip on the scuttle to allow airflow out, had a couple of focus RS style bonnet vents and made the front grills removable for track use

I got a DeWalt cordless one for Christmas, it's epic. Best tool I have

Received the panels from CCF this week so gave them a quick spray with Halfords satin black then chucked them on to see how they fit. Also dropped the engine in to free some space up in the garage Bonnet fits fine but headlight blanks are going to need a bit of fettling

Going to go black for the front bumper, wings, bonnet, side skirts and rear bumper and bright green for the rest. Ordered some custom made ie correct centre bore and offset TD Prorace 1.2 in gloss red with R888Rs as I can get a decent discount on them through someone I used to work with. After...

Painted interior with silver hammerite for durability and went for a extra low subframe from @JON FOZ with a sparco fibreglass fia approved seat Ordered fibreglass boot, tailgate, headlight blanks and roof scoop from CCF, just waiting on them turning up which should be this week before can...

I came to the conclusion that no matter how bad I am at it I need to have a go at sprinting/racing so logic dictated I needed a 172 so here we go again as there's no way I'm ruining the 197. The 172 above was cheap, very very cheap, but was an absolute shed. Every panel marked, water leak into a...

Other problem we had was losing a take off from the intake plenum under boost so got some clamps to hold stuff in place. Only other thing done at the moment is making, well start making, a gauge pod for the dash. I didn't want something looking like we've just nailed the gauges in place so got...

So been a while since I've updated this. Essentially since the last day at Oulton we replaced the track rod ends and did another track day and had a repeat of the ends failing, so clearly something was wrong... Got the car home and over the next week had a proper look at the hubs. Turns out...

@Chris_Beer will do an update later. Few little bits done on the turbo but got myself a shed of a 172 to build into a race car with my daughter to go sprinting/ racing hopefully so that’s been taking up my time along with changing jobs which had been a pain in the ar$e

I got one of these for Christmas, it's epic. Hasn't broken a sweat with anything I've thrown at it

I'm also looking at this, though wont be using the 197 so have bought a 172 to convert. Just looking at series options at the mo - likely either production class in the tricolore or do a years sprinting first and see how it goes from there. Car was cheap as, next biggest costs will be cage, and...

Got to be better, biggest difference will be a decent 3" exhaust. Oh yeah and I've bought another clio :grin:

What have you gone for? mine are 51mm and could run 320/320 without issue and sod all lag if I wanted to break the bottom end :up:

You can subscribe to RTTI separately which is what I've done with mine. Black panel display is a must though as others say

yes it is, mine are 140nm, presumably as they are M14 rather than M12

If anyone is using PMS conversion it's 140nm

Found a RS250 breaking on ebay so got the turbo pack (turbo, actuator and recirc) off it, took ages to find one as it seems they go as soon as they become available. And yes it's a straight swap. Could run a chunk more power and torque but 300lbft is about the safe limit of the 225 bottom end so...

So Friday afternoon I made a return visit to RS Tuning and compared to the previous attempts this was utterly painless. 300bhp and 300lbft. Paul reckoned it would have easily done 320ish but like the previous map this has been left rich at the top end to add a degree of safety due to track...

No probs, looking forward to you getting it built

Certainly am young Dan. It’s just better all round than the other

I wanted a better solution to the header tank being mounted off the scuttle on a homemade bracket so it turns out the header tank from a Dacia Sandero fits neatly with a bit of trimming next to the drivers side wing Also got the peeling wheel retrimmed by Jack at Royal Steering, full black...

Next on the list after oulton was swap the turbo and exhaust for the rs250 unit and full 3” system ready for mapping, fix the track rod ends and relocate the header tank. Swapping the turbo and exhaust in situ was a pig of a job and would have been easier pulling the engine. After much swearing...

Had a good day at oulton. Car behaved itself up until mid afternoon when the track rod ends failed and we could turn the steering wheel through nearly 180 degrees without any movement at the wheels. Up to that point it was quick, overtook loads, brakes are epic and it’s very planted in the...

You’ll be happy when it’s sorted, keep at it, I’ve only had the car up for sale twice whilst building the sodding thing

I just ran a returnless rail from the 225 with an engine dynamics uprated pump on the 172, the 197 is using the same rail with the 197 pump as it's good for about 320bhp

M10 screw on fitting, can't remember whether it's male or female though off the top of my head though I think it's male at the slave cylinder end And yes I've done this a couple of times now, the conversion into a 197 is easier than the 1*2. @dann2707 started his after I got started on mine and...

I meant an OBP pedal box, just made up a short copper section then measured whatever fittings I had to terminate the copper and got HEL to make me a braided line. If you want another thread to read with the conversion mine's in the projects section - RS250ish originally 172 turbo with megane 6...