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  1. franx

    (very)Fast road coilovers; H&R again or try the B14's ?

    I've had the H&R coilovers for over 8 years now , and they were awesome. Still are , but age is getting to them. Years ago , when Fred (among others) were still here , H&R was the no1 choice. Comparing the 2 it seems the H&R's go a fair bit lower than the Billies. I really like the low...
  2. franx

    Torque Top nut drivers side Vibratechnics enginemount ?

    I've read the oem torque-setting on this on is 44NM (?) The OEM mount had a "square" hole where the engine-part of the mount would precisely slide/fit over.. The Vibratechnics has a round hole, with room for play : the bolt has movement in it even when tightened up. I can see metal shaving...
  3. franx

    172Cup; Ultralegeras 15" ; GOLD ?? or anthracite

    Some of you might shrug/laugh ; but i just this week saw a blue car with gold wheels and it got me thinking.. it looked pretty damn good! But! It used to have (or still has) , sort of a "chav" reputation because of the 90's Scooby's Safer is anthracite... Easier and less cleaning as the...
  4. franx

    Ph1 box on a 172 Cup nice ?

    I've stripped some weight off of the Cup, it weighs around 960kg with driver. (weighed it on a truck-weightstation) It's modified to around 200bhp. I have found, with the Cup box, the short 1st gear almost always "useless". With all the wheelspin and knocking when hitting it just a tad bit...
  5. franx

    how to break in a new built engine / rebuilt engine

    Hard or gentle ? I had instructions not to take it over 5000 rpm for the first 1000+ km's , and i stuck to it (as hard as that is..) . I did however let the engine really work hard up to these 5000rpm , on every level. Very fluctuating rpm's, pushing it hard through different rev ranges...
  6. franx

    Part no. 172 Cup driveshafts ?

    Just searched through all 9 pages , back to 2009, No luck on genuine part no's for the shafts .. :dead: Can someone help me on the part numbers , pretty please ? Thanks guys
  7. franx

    New engine for my 172Cup ; Ph1 (with Schrick cams?)

    As my engine is even more damaged as we thought before, we're about to put in a completely overhauled Ph1 engine. I'm wanting to go the Schrick route on this engine. @ Fred , Danny ; how will these cams perform on the Ph1 ? Actually when comparing Ph1 + Ph2 engines; are there ANY differences...
  8. franx

    replacing rocker arms/roller rockers when rebuilding head ?

    I had one of the rocker arms broken (valves floated with too many rpm's + did some damage) , a piece of the rocker lodged itself between the cams and made some nice drawings on them :dead: When we are rebuilding the head, do we need to change all the rockers or just the broken one? The mech...
  9. franx

    Schrick cams ; which profile ? (for 172 Cup)

    I can order some for a nice price , thinking of putting these in my Cup which needs new ones. Am i correct that the cam profiles for these are 280 and 288 (do'nt know which is inlet or exhaust but read this on ze German webseite) These two numbers come very very close to my C&B cams (which...
  10. franx

    These pistons look pretty much done for , or ??

    couple of hit valves, bent but not broken. How do these pistons look ? :( Want to know if these will still do the job ? One of the pics has a damaged cilinderwall... My C&B cams look f**ked too, valve took out a rocker arm (correct?) on its destructive way up and this must have damaged...
  11. franx

    could a weak battery cause misfire + irratic idle etc. ?

    I've done the leads and coilpack, seemed to benefit from this but the misfire/stuttering has come back. The battery is very old , had it checked and the measure-device said "replace, bad battery" The fault readout when having it plugged in for diagnosis last week only mentioned a fault...
  12. franx

    where which earth's ?

    I know there is one at the alternator, one at the battery (-terminal connected to chassis). Any more ? Car has developed a misfire/judder and a diagnosis/readout brought up a faultcode mentioning bad earth ... ?
  13. franx

    Powerflex wishbonebushes; no instruction for welding sleeves..

    I have bought some and i know the sleeves have to be tack welded or maybe even a bit more than a couple of tacks. However mine came without instructions ; How do i know the correct position of how the sleeve should sit in the arm before/when welding it ? I have a general idea because i have...
  14. franx

    Mark Fish top mounts ; Camber units ? Any of you ??

    Anyone familiar with the camber units he also sells ? I knew the solid top mounts have been bought by some of you but i never read of anyone owning the ones where camber is also adjustable ?? Are these new or have i missed something :boring: ?
  15. franx

    used some injector-cleaner ; is it safe to go all out/full throttle ?

    I put in some quality German stuff , on a full tank. After maybe 70 miles driving round with it i noticed when red-lining it it began to splutter at high revs/ hold back ! It just happened again . I guess i could be some "dirt" coming loose, but is it safe to thrash it like you...
  16. franx

    Raising/adjusting front H&R struts

    To follow up on my question in other thread; Any of you with H&R's that have had them on the car for a couple of years and have tried to adjust the height on the front ? I'm sure i've read that the adjuster-rings tend to seize after being in the same position for long time ? Any tips as i...
  17. franx

    Removing powersteering 172Cup, little different

    Has been done and discussed before, but there is a seller on Ebay which sells the pulleyset/bracket and belt to bypass the powersteeringpump , and then just uses the 172 rack .. I asked him about this, reply here : "We have used the normal 172 rack with a pipe joining both sides of the piston...
  18. franx

    182 waterpump on a 172 Cup (same engine, no prob??)

    My car had a leaky waterpump, so took it to a mate and he had a look at it. He fixed it, putting on a new pump. Since my car (172 Cup) is imported, the license-reg was registered as a 182 here in Holland, for reasons i do'nt want to get into now. So what happened is ; My mate ordered a...
  19. franx

    What type of grease to use re-filling CV boots ?

    as above please :) ? Any typenumbers or just go to the autoshop and order CV-grease ? I was once visiting a guy here who runs two Cup racers and he was telling me about some kind of SUPERDUPER grease they use ? (as they're s**t got too hot frequently eating up shafts/cv's) haha , no i'm...
  20. franx

    Most awesome rally legend ; 172 Cup owner did you know ?

  21. franx

    video/sound of my very old K-tec Stealth (with C&B Cams)

    Got myself a new camera and went for a spin tonight to see how it does; some on-board filming. Turn up the sound and find out how a 5 year old K-tec Stealth exhaust sounds. (made by Tiger (?), one of the early ones ?) It does seem to get more "boomy" this last year. Not screaming to red revs...
  22. franx

    slight drop in coolant ; worry time ?

    I have noticed that every couple of months i can fill up lets say 4cm in the expansion tank/reservoir , you think it's using coolant ? (headgasket?) :dapprove::( Can't seem to spot a leak either..
  23. franx

    washing the car after a wax/clean job ? not nice

    I brought the car away for a cleaning and waxjob, payed around 150 pounds. This is one of those companies that prep new cars to showroom status when sold. Car looked spanking new after, really nice. However, now after washing, even during washing, you can feel some sort of reacting with...
  24. franx

    bit of spray from the exhaust on cold startup ?

    When the car has been in the shed for a couple of days and i start it up i have noticed ,when i go to close the garage door and leave it standing for a minute , that there is a bit of waterspray coming from the exhaust. I saw the spray on the tarmac. Only when cold , never when driven and...
  25. franx

    New filter setup ; straight to TB (pics)

    i was reading 172Ben's thread , he got some nice trumpets on there now :) , and saw that before the Throttle bodies came on he had a phase 1 airbox straigh on to the TB. Similar to the Cup racers setup, looked to be allright so i also gave it a trie ! Battery was already in the back, got the...
  26. franx

    PART NO. OEM (paper) AIRFILTER CLIO RS PHASE 1 ?

    i have the old v6 airbox, same size as the Clio RS 2 Phase 1 . I'm wanting to change my dirty old ITG foamfilter for the oem paper one, see if it makes any difference at all. Cheap little experiment. If the ride is okay i can change the paper one more often, they seem to be cheap ! I was just...
  27. franx

    the new inlet manifold by Angelworks and icarus ; any news ?

    ? Have not taken the effort of ringing Ben yet , maybe someone has heard the latest ?
  28. franx

    latest addition to me Cup, MB shortshifter

    Quite easy to install, solid feeling gearchanges are the result, far less play in the stick than before (when it felt like stirring through a pan of thick soup) . Real happy with it + the price is incredible for such a nice product .. bargain ; recommended !! :)...
  29. franx

    Got myself a NEW 172 Cup for 600 + pounds !

    :D ACTUALLY.... this is what i did to make the car feel like a brand new one ! ; Inner + outer trackrod/ends , lower balljoints , new set of tyres (Michelin PE2's; excellent tyre) , new laser-alignement/tracking I forgot to mention the new enginemounts (all round) which i did not too long...
  30. franx

    ANYONE WITH DIALOGYS PLEASE FOR PART NO. 7701472038

    As above , i just called Renault to cancel the order i placed for above part number because i just read this thread here but they were closed already. Skini on here seems to have experienced that a different partno. was a fit for the 172
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