Who here owns a Renaultsport?

MikeHiow · 13 Dec 2011 at 12:38

Have any of you 182 Cup/FF owners replaced your dampers?

Where did you source them from and for how much? Ktec seem to be the cheapest I've found so far at £220 for a set of four. However, given their pricing on everything else, I'm not convinced that this is the cheapest they can be found.

alexisonfire · 13 Dec 2011 at 12:38

Oh and i forgot to say, shut up and buy the brembo's already

At a later date get some ds2500 or RC5+ pads too, then enjoy 4pot power for a lot less £££

alexisonfire · 13 Dec 2011 at 12:41

MikeHiow said:
Have any of you 182 Cup/FF owners replaced your dampers?

Where did you source them from and for how much? Ktec seem to be the cheapest I've found so far at £220 for a set of four. However, given their pricing on everything else, I'm not convinced that this is the cheapest they can be found.

I have a very clean full FF setup sitting in my garage. Car had done 45k when i took them off, but they look far to clean to be that old.

EDIT: A photo i took when i was going to sell them - I didn't even need to clean them!

Skeeter · 13 Dec 2011 at 12:43

*goes and looks up the price of drilled or grooved discs...*

Yeah, I'll stick with the £30 Brembos

As for shocks, that seems about right Mike. £100 for rears and around £120 for fronts.

How come your changing them? I'm assuming you didn't get the RX8?

MikeHiow · 13 Dec 2011 at 13:17

I've found the full set for £200 now from a Renault dealer on CS.

Yeah, the RX8 thing fell through. I've got Silverstone GP booked in February and figured I may as well keep the Clio for the amount of use it gets.

I have some sportlines on the way, so once suspension has been refreshed and wishbones/arb polybushed, that should be just about everything done on the car!

Skeeter · 13 Dec 2011 at 13:43

MikeHiow said:
I've got Silverstone GP booked in February and figured I may as well keep the Clio for the amount of use it gets

Owning an RS Clio, your doing it right!

New stock dampers and Sportline springs, the suspension setup of kings I think you will find

Shame about the RX8 though. Haven't you wanted one since the dawn of time?

MikeHiow · 13 Dec 2011 at 14:08

I have, and it was either upgrade to an RX8 or lavish some new bits on the Clio.

With money burning a hole in my pocket and no one wanting to buy a high mileage clio, much less at christmas time, the outcome should have been clear from the start.

I've even found a set of OZ F1s for reasonable money to chuck some R888s on

Skeeter · 13 Dec 2011 at 14:39

MikeHiow said:
I've even found a set of OZ F1s for reasonable money to chuck some R888s on

Are they off a Clio or normal after market OZ ones?

MikeHiow · 13 Dec 2011 at 14:46

Clio.

Skeeter · 13 Dec 2011 at 14:52

Cool. I had a nightmare with my non Renault ones.

I've only got 1 set of wheels so I'm going for some Federal RSRs.

But without a garage, or any real need to fit any shiny new bits until next spring, I am desperately trying to fight the urge to buy stuff. Im holding off for the moment... just.

MikeHiow · 13 Dec 2011 at 14:53

Scrap that. I just found some multifit F1s with R888s and Indy sports already fitted for half the price.

They come with spiggot rings too.

What trouble did you have?

Skeeter · 13 Dec 2011 at 14:54

Don't do it!

I had multi fit ones. 3 sets of spigot rings (including the official OZ kit direct from Italy) and £70 later they still wouldn't fit and I sold them on and bought some Renault fit ones.

MikeHiow · 13 Dec 2011 at 15:20

Well, I'll be starting with 59mm spiggots that the previous owner has been using. The chap I'm purchasing the wheels is some sort of engineer and more than capable of opening them up until they fit (60.1mm)

Skeeter · 13 Dec 2011 at 15:22

Fair enough. Good luck.

alexisonfire · 13 Dec 2011 at 19:22

So...i got bored today and drove over to surrey to get my exhaust taken off from the backbox back, and had a straight through pipe put on instead...

Sound on the overrun is insane! Who needs pops n bangs map when you got this

MikeHiow · 13 Dec 2011 at 20:48

Is that the standard back box and just the cat and middle box removed?

Ps. did you get my trust?

MikeHiow · 14 Dec 2011 at 20:44

Well, I've now got my plan, consisting of

Eibach Sportlines - already here
New front and rear dampers
New top mounts
Powerflex wishbone and arb bushes
DS2500 pads
New crank sensor

Anything I've missed? I'm holding out for a couple of days, as knowing my luck I'll order it and some Trophy dampers will come up again.

I think I'm then ready to go and should have a nice and fresh/tight car again

Skeeter · 14 Dec 2011 at 20:52

You've already done the brakes haven't you?

What top mounts are you getting?

MikeHiow · 14 Dec 2011 at 21:00

Yes, but while fine for road/autotests, the pads I have will not survive the Silverstone GP circuit.

OEM for top mounts. I'd love some solid ones, but it's a waste of time unless you spend £200 for some AST adjustable ones and even then they're not too practical on the road.

Skeeter · 14 Dec 2011 at 21:09

Yeah, I looked at solid top mounts briefly, but they are an awful lot of money for something that can ruin the ride on the road.

What pads do you have? I've got DS Performance pads on OEM discs (front, rears are OEM both) and they were fine at Bedford. No fade, good stoppers, and the only issue after 2 track days is a slightly warped disc (or discs). DS2500's are expensive, and still don't fit without needing to be filed down apparently :rolleyes:

Be good to hear what you think of Sportlines and new OEM shocks. Although, I did hear a rumour that Trophy dampers from Renault had dropped in price to a similar level to a refurbished set? Was on CS though, so could be complete garbage, lol.