Ok, i know what your saying, maybe i should have been absolutely specific then.

When trying to accelerate out of a wed bend, or one with leaves, the inside front (if no LSD) is going to spin up, if it has an LSD, then go straight on.
If RWD, then its probably going to slide also.
With 4WD you can put more power to the ground and keep the car tracking in the direction its meant to. Obviously it can't defy the laws of physics, but its going to be better than a Froggy FWD!

 

You're right and most of the time (not all I hasten to add) I do know better

Again making assumptions and clearly demonstrating to us all that you don't have the acumen to know better. I've had a whole host of FWD cars which have included XR2, Escort RS Turbo, 306 GTI 6, Golf GTI Turbo (petrol) and quite frankly they've all been crap and funnily enough the worst of the bunch was erm the French one.

If we're quoting tuners cars then Zen managed a 1.09 at Snetterton on the same day as above
Face up to the facts Clio's are the weapon of choice for the spotty teenage oik that doesn't know better. They then form some kind of fascination with the marque and cannot move on to something more capable. Instead they "tune" it with throttle bodies and superchargers. It's still a Clio and will still get its **** handed to it many times over.


Incedently one of my mates has a super charged stripped out 306 Dimma (340bhp) quickest he's managed on the strip is 13.9 and that, mon amis, is nothing to be spouting about. He got his **** handed to him by a 280bhp RB5

Finally if that's you in the You Tube video you're the typical oik as described above, **** all squared, big mouth on here and nothing to worry about in the flesh. Now off you trott little boy this is the big boys play ground

 

what an entertaining thread! Keep it up lads

 

"Again making assumptions and clearly demonstrating to us all that you don't have the acumen to know better. I've had a whole host of FWD cars which have included XR2, Escort RS Turbo, 306 GTI 6, Golf GTI Turbo (petrol) and quite frankly they've all been crap and funnily enough the worst of the bunch was erm the French one".

Disagree slightly there buddy, id say the 306 gti was pick of the bunch of all the fwd cars mentioned, followed by the old xr2, certainly would not rate a mk4 golf gti over a gti 6 for sure.

I had a cammed 16valve clio at one stage in my life, which was basically a williams with a smaller front track and slightly less power and it went very well indeed, kept up with my old vr6 corrado pretty easily, but out of a slow damp corner pretty sure my 99 uk ppp would turbo would destroy any front driver ive ever had

 

Yes i will agree i dont have a huge knowledge of superchargers, but i do know a guy who has a 350z with the internals done and a supercharger fitted, its rear wheel drive and it spins the wheels in near every gear, thats how i came to the assumption that your front wheel drive car would have a similar issue!!
As for having no friends your right......but it seems your in the same boat also!!
Your video is a cracker as well, lets see.....car park......you revving your engine like a wee chav.....some passing school boy using his camera phone to video it whilst he giggles away I can prob tell what happened next and it involved sweets to loor him in then KY for you enter

I think its all good banter mate.....some of the replys are cracking me up!!

 

I Built a mk3 gsi to over 350bhp And as soon as you tried to giv it any juice round a corner it decided that it wanted togo in a straight line? does your clio not want to do the same?

As this is the reaon i went for a scooby

 

I remember back in 80's when Saab said 160 bhp was the limit for a road car, and 220 bhp for rallying.....

I'm so glad they were wrong !

dunx

P.S. Now back to the entertainment....

 

well saabs already had 185bhp in the 80s and mine had about 200/220lb/ft (it did love eating front tyres mind)

 

I'll take a couple of grammes too - oh wait, I have a job and don't drive an Impreza

But I drive a French car and I'm not ashamed of the dodgy 80's electrics

 

Green Goblin = FAIL

 

Another person on a Subaru forum with.......oh yeh......no Subaru!!!

 

At the minute. Do your research and you'll see I had one of the cleanest red classics on here (until financial restraints required she be sold)

You failed as you merely resorted to childish name calling rather that some form of witty retort which would no doubt have suited better my good man

 

And what name calling did i resort too??? I only stated a point.....think you were a bit defensive there

 

Can you tell I miss her

To be fair the 205 is a brilliant little car, but I wish it had a turbo and a burble

 

Yeh a wee bit, i know how i would feel if i didnt have my one
Im sure you will have another one soon mate

 

aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr love it when you kiss and make up lol. (chocs was bloody tidy)

 

RANDOM THREAD!

Bob r if you have trouble seeing off a Clio either your seat is set is too far away from the peddles or you should let the Misses do the driving from now on

 

You know this is really unfair on french cars, I own an S13 and in the 2 years+ of ownership its spent more time off the road than on the road due to turbos blowing etc etc. There is more rust than I ever imagined due to Japanese cars amazing ability to rot away after not being undersealed (an mines a UK model ffs). My electrics do still work, although the headlights wink to open and close. This seems to be true of most blown japanese cars that I know of. Japanese N/As seem to be a fair bit better but interior wise not great. The only redeeming thing about my jap crap is it has less interior rattles than my clio, however that may be because its stripped

Jap crap = quick for the 5 minutes its working properly, annoying the rest of the time.

Renault = fantastic fun provided your happy to lose on occasion in straight line drags, corners are awesome and the stereo will always go louder than the rattles

 

think the jesus has created another account or could it be wd sam getting better by the minute

 

 

I think if you re-read my post, I was neither confrontational or argumentative. I dont think its fair to imply I'm here to bait people into (hilarious) internet arguments about who's car is better, because I am literate and defending the clio from some of the negatives being put against it.

I was simply stating that the post about a renault clios reliability imo is unfair, I've owned 3 clios, 2 vauxhalls, a ford a suzuki and a nissan 200sx. I have read all kinds of horror stories about scoobs aswell as other jap cars as I have a keen interest in cars and I want to own as many fun cars as I can in my budget.

I can honestly say that mechanical reliablity is more down to how a car is looked after than how the manufacturer built it, this is certainly true of newer cars. I was making a point of this by comparing my 3 completely faultless clios which, whilst far from amazingly put together never failed me once. My Nissan (jap reliability comparison) however has blown 3 turbos and at the moment is parked up with an very new and much worse problem. My Japanese turbo car, has been the least reliable car I have owned. everything else I have owned has ran 100% without issue.

I have signed up to scoobynet as I am looking for a decent 4WD turbo to replace my S13 and on the list is an impreza. I was hoping to find fair unbiased opinions aswell as info on the impreza. This thread certainly makes it seem this isn't going to be the place, as you all seem to hold your cars as the fastest things on the road.

 

I can see your point and its always good to get other peoples opinions, but if you kept blowing up your turbo's there must be something underlying in your setup to cause this like running to much boost or D/V screwed right up causing your turbo to stall out causing damage etc or it could have just been down to buying cheap turbo's!! I think after breaking 2 turbos i would be going to see a specialist to see whats going wrong So when you say reliability comes down to how its looked after that proves my point, clio's etc are easy to look after due to being so basic and it takes a bit more knowledge to keep and run a high performance car like a scoob!!
Thats not me attacking you......just my thoughts on what you wrote!!

 

i hate to admit this but nissans are 1000 times more reliable than scoobs you either got yor self a really abused one or you dont know how to look after it in terms of warming it up wacking mods on there and not getting it mapped i dont know!

 

Hey stop GOBLIN CHOCOLATE.LMHAO

 

Aah fair enough, can see why with it being a 3.5l RWD charged engine with internals done... almost identical spec to my Clio to be honest

And as before, it's not my video nor am I in the video That's GDI's car park at their old Kimbolton premises (middle of nowhere) and I cant recall their being a school nearby... can you just check your google maps of all the UK schools again to confirm though Mr Gadd? :P

As for the banter... well, mine is suffering due to your weak responses tbh, but I'll work with what I can inbetween cringing at your posts

Surprisingly not no, but then I suppose it depends how much you pour the throttle on after a corner, but it's surprisingly grippy. Coilovers are properly setup which I guess helps, but it's not running a great deal of camber either, neg 1.6 on the front.



And to whoever thought I'd go to the effort of creating another account... simply, no, I think that is Kneel of Clio Sport, so I'd prefer not to be mistook for a girl with dreadlocks...

 

Bet you have not seen that graphite grey 205 1.9 gti with 63.5k on the clock on pistonheads have you cob? lots of reciepts! only 2.8k (my favourite colour for 205's too )

Tony

 

man i really miss the 205 GTI the 1.9 not 1.6 was is legendry and was a true fun hot hatch and not forgetting the mk2 golf Gti 16 valve

 

Edited for accuracy .....and I own a Scooby.

Face it, we're all fecking saddos who should know better than to **** away our money on something that we'll only ever lose our shirts on!

From now on, I'm investing more money in the important things in life: alcohol and *****.......................after the AP 6 pot upgrade.......and coilovers....

 

lmao, very true, it is sad, but it's an addiction!

I really should grow up and stop playing with cars, but thankfully the missus encourages it... sensible car next however... Skyline :P

 

good to see the jesus noising people up on forums again. williamsclio was his favourite haunt, where he had the fastest williams on the planet running magic cams sprinkled with fairy dust running on standard pulleys. that car beat everything, scoobys, no problem, 172 cups, everything, the williams was king. glad to see he has moved on to another world beater, another clio. yawn.