got myself a 182

[loose cannon]

finally got myself a 182 after chewing on a new 225 meg and 197 on the f and f scheme im well pleased with it
its silver with cup suspension etc and tinted windows ohh err missus
just a quick question were shall i get it mapped, opinions please must admit the gdi exchange ecu is looking favourite at the mo or can someone put the map on a disc so i can reprogram it with my clip at work or is that wishfull thinking lol
ps havnt joined cliosport.net have browsed the site and seems to be full of completly pointless rant's about nowt lol put me off joining to be honest

[350wedge]

Greetings and welcome to the Clio Cup club....

GDI are pretty good by all accounts. Thats where the tuning work was done to my 172 Cup, although i have the SMT6 ECU fitted. If you are quick there was one of these for sale on cliosport.net for around £160 instead of nearer £600 that GDI will charge you. With that you'll need it mapped properly though. Have a look at my other thread at the top of the French forum. The last post i made is the RR graph done when it was mapped at GDI. My car does have other supporting mods though...

[Baldylocks]

Good choice of car

RS Tuning do remaps. Its not live mapped on a RR but they are well regarded and relatively cheap. Thats where I'll go eventually I expect.

K-tec (and others I expect) sell the Group N Ecu, which raises the rev limit amongst other things

Agree there is a fair bit of bollox on the CS forum (kind of like here really!) but it is a good club, lots of sound people when you actually meet them.

[loose cannon]

thanks m8 i will have a look though im not gonna go to crazy at mo, just a remap, having said that
i just no im not gonna be able to resist putting in some camms etc after 5 o'clock at work lol
s--t what am i saying no stop it
cant find your rr post, i would like to see that

[350wedge]

The RR graph is tagged onto my 'Anyone got a 206Gti 180' thread as thats what i started off wanting

This link should take you straight to the last page....

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=339513&f=160&h=0&p=7

[Tripps]

Looks like we're gonna have our own club within a club of PHers who own Renaultsport Clios, as I'm another who prefers the atmosphere over here in PH.

[Baldylocks]

loose cannon said:

thanks m8 i will have a look though im not gonna go to crazy at mo, just a remap, having said that
i just no im not gonna be able to resist putting in some camms etc after 5 o'clock at work lol
s--t what am i saying no stop it
cant find your rr post, i would like to see that

Its a slippery slope

I was going to leave mine standard. Then the exhaust fell off after 3k miles of ownership. "Hmmm...may as well get a stainless cat back then, plus sports cat while I'm at it" ha ha!

Get inlet manifold matching before cams mate. Good bang for buck to be had there. Will be my next port of call with a remap to go with it.

[warren182]

I was advised to get inlet manifold, exhaust, decat etc before getting a remap done. Saying that, they aren't cheap to get more power out of, more fun with suspension seats and brakes sorted.

[pbirkett]

Tripps said:

Looks like we're gonna have our own club within a club of PHers who own Renaultsport Clios, as I'm another who prefers the atmosphere over here in PH.

I dont like cliosport forum either. I did try to persist with it, but in the end, its like you say, its just circular arguments about 182 versus Type R, or 182 versus Ferrari, or just some crap like that.

I never met any of them though, but on what I saw I'm not sure I would bother. Its difficult to imagine they can all be like that though!

[Baldylocks]

All I'd say is you should'nt confuse the forum with the actual owners club. Alot of what goes on on the forum is just banter between people bored at work.

The forum is very usefull if you ever need any technical advice, much more so than here as its more specific.

[pbirkett]

Fair enough, as I said, I doubt they can all be bad, and it wouldnt be fair to tarnsih everyone with the same brush.

I am sure we can both agree there are some idiots on there though.

[Baldylocks]

pbirkett said:

I am sure we can both agree there are some idiots on there though.

Oh yes.

It goes with the territory really. Theres more younger people on CS as Clio's are obviously cheap and good first cars. PH is more grown up for sure.

[loose cannon]

yes im looking into the manifold matching cheers for all your advise guys it help's alot that im a renault techie so if you guys need some parts i can get them at a discount though please dont swamp me
agree with you baldylocks about cliosport.net you get some planks on here 2 occasionally ive even been known to be 1 so horses for corses i suppose but ph is a better place to be perhaps we should have a ph clio meet

[loose cannon]

almost forgot thats a pretty good gain there mr 350wedge ive got to get mine mapped as my gte 16v just eats my 182 in a straight line very different power delivery though the xe has amazing torque all the way through to redline and beyond

[Baldylocks]

Your fairly local to me Loose Cannon so we could have a little meet sometime for sure

Thanks for the offer on the parts

[loose cannon]

no probs sounds like a plan
gave it its 24k service last week and tommorow it gets a new rain sensor and rear light unit some tt has trapped the wire behind the foam pad causing water ingress to the connector plug and damaged the wire no o/s brake light well untill i cleaned it up though i will replace the connector and above tommorow and let warren g pay for it all nice lad he is

[Karen182]

loose cannon said:

finally got myself a 182 after chewing on a new 225 meg and 197 on the f and f scheme im well pleased with it
its silver with cup suspension etc and tinted windows ohh err missus
just a quick question were shall i get it mapped, opinions please must admit the gdi exchange ecu is looking favourite at the mo or can someone put the map on a disc so i can reprogram it with my clip at work or is that wishfull thinking lol
ps havnt joined cliosport.net have browsed the site and seems to be full of completly pointless rant's about nowt lol put me off joining to be honest

hello from another 182 owner

[Gav182]

Good choice i ve got 182 in Black Gold with both cup packs , lovely car to drive shame i ve had a few probs but you can t have everything .

[loose cannon]

gav m8 whats gone wrong out of interest
hi karen nice bum by the way nice car 2

[Gav182]

Ive had the usual creaking strut top bearings , a noisy driveshaft , full set of hydraulic tappets as one seemed to be tapping in the morning for about 30 seconds , climate control pack , and the cd player didn t read disks sometimes . But i ll be honest i don t know anyone thats had these probs before apart from the struts creaking . I ve had all the work done under warranty . It is an awesome car though and hopefully i wont have any more probs . Enjoy your car .