Recent content by Joe'172

It's a renault so probably a pig. I did a quick search and I think you can wiggle it out past the driveshaft with inlet manifold off and exhaust undone and moved back. Ill find out this weekend!

If anyone's interested. I twatted the starter motor with a hammer and now it starts. Will be on the to do list. Wish it played up last weekend so I could of replaced it when I put the 182 manifold on. ​Oh well

Nice one. Well done mate. Good luck at Le Mans might see you around :p

This morning I had a non starting problem. Unlock vehicle, ignition on and when turning to crank it goes dead. No tools with me so all I could do was check passengers fuse box - all ok and engine bay relays/fuses. These where quite corroded so I managed to scrape them up a bit with a knife and...

Iv just done mine and it was fairly simple. There's a good guide here on the forum as well. Henk is also very prompt on communication. Once you've done it you can sell it on or use it as a diagnostic tool for the future.

​All FSH vehicles?

​Does your service manager mate see many bottom end failures?

Yeah cool no worrys. Im off to Cornwall this weekend anyway but back Sunday evening.

Ok cool iv got access to a decent build shop as well but I reckon might be able to get away with just doing big ends. Depends when sump is off. Is it your main vehicle? Have you got a driveway? Offers there if you want a hand. Nice to know there's a few people local with clios

How far are you from woking? Ill give you a hand

I'm in Surrey an have a complete bottom end for sale. Cheap cheap. Probably easier to just replace whole engine though.

What would you class as random bolt ons? I'm just going to do the bits Iv said and then have some fun at a couple track days before going for a bit overhaul during winter and focussing on either bodies or turbo. Iv owned turbos before though so I think I might go throttle bodies route this time.

Why is a standard valve more likely to fail rather then spring or follower? Where did you purchase your valves? I saw some KTEC supplied and I thought they were on the pricey side.

Yeah 100% it would have cams when I sort the head out and either go turbo or throttle bodies. Just wanted a higher RPM with the RS Tuner map, matched inlet, bmc filter and exhaust. Its running 162.5bhp now so wanted to eek a little more out before a big rebuild.

I think you might just end up ruining the cat. If your gonna do it, decat it :o