Clio 172 Phase I
Welcome to Performance Car Readers
Welcome to Performance Car Readers
Clio French Car Buying Guide In Performance Car Issue 14
Welcome to ReadyForTheTrack.co.uk, Performance Car Readers, this is a guide for the RenaultSport Clio 172, 182 and 197′s. It offers you all kinds of insight into owning and buying a Clio RS.
Tooling Up #1 – Buying a fast road or track car
Tooling Up #2 – RenaultSport Range – What Clio 172 or 182 to buy?
Tooling Up #3 – Clio 172 or 182 buyers guide
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I hope you find it useful,
Always a Hooligan,
/y0z
Mintex M1144 Pads For The RenaultSport Range
Mintex M1144 Pads For The RenaultSport Clio Range
We have recieved loads of requests from people asking about information on the Mintex M1144 for the RenaultSport Clio 172 and 182.
Unfortunately, they are not available for the Clio 172/182, however they are available for the 1.8 16v and williams.
More information about the Clio 172 and 182 brake options can be found here: 172 and 182 Brake Information
We are currently writing an longer article about the M1144, M1155 and the M1166 pads, and will be stocking them in the coming months.
M1144 Information
The Mintex 1144 is essentially a fast road brake pad. You should be able in almost all circumstances to just drive on the pad, with no warming up period required. If you wish to purchase mintex M1144, please contact us with you car details, and we will come back to you with a price. Obviously, dependent on stock this could take a few hours.
M1155 Information
All the information on the M1155 is coming soon. If you need some pads urgently – just drop us a quick email from the contact form.
M1166 Information
All the information on the M1166 is coming soon. If you need some pads urgently – just drop us a quick email from the contact form.
Always a Hooligan,
/y0z
Clio 172 Exhaust Information
Renault Clio 172 Exhausts
RenaultSport Clio 172 and 172 Cup exhausts are notoriously poor quality and often have to be replaced with stainless steel aftermarket systems. Find out more about stealth, sports and race systems from ReadyForTheTrack.
Clio 172 Stealth Exhaust System
Clio 172 Stealth Exhaust
A stealth exhaust system is one that is hidden behind the 172 rear bumper – in much the same fashion as the original exhaust system. The YozzaSport 172 exhaust system is intended to be a replacement system to the standard 172 exhaust. This is due to the common failure of the standard system. We wanted to offer our customers the high quality of our products, but without the performance and noise increases that often come with them.
Clio 172 Race Exhaust System
Clio 172 Race Exhaust From YozzaSport
A race system is often a 2.5″ or 2.25″ system without any large silencers in the centre pipe. YozzaSport 172 race systems have a small bullet silencer in the centre section to remove some levels of boom from the system. Our race systems are re-packable, and often are run with a Clio 182 Exhaust manifold and join pipe.
Clio 172 Sports Exhaust System
Clio 172 Sports Exhaust From YozzaSport
A sport exhaust system normally will offer some performance gains, but without the noise that is associated with a full blown race system. To offer an alternative or an option to YozzaSport 172 Exhaust customers, we have developed both a 2.5″ Race Derived system, and a 2.25″ Road intended system.
For More Information about Clio 172 Exhaust Systems Visit our: Clio 172 Exhaust section.
Always a hooligan,
/y0z
RenaultSport Trackdays For 2009
RenaultSport UK and RenaultSport France have announced their trackdays for 2009.
UK Trackday Dates
- 23 March – Visit to the Renaultsport factory at Dieppe
- 27 May – Trackday at Brands Hatch
- 1 June – Trackday at Spa-Francorchamps
- 8 June – Visit to the Renaultsport factory at Dieppe
- 19 June – Evening trackday at Bedford Autodrome
- 31 July – Evening trackday at Bedford Autodrome
- 11 August – Trackday at Cadwell Park
- 21 August – Evening trackday at Bedford Autodrome
- 15 September – Trackday at Oulton Park
More Information can be found on the RenaultSport UK Trackday Section
European Trackdays With RenaultSport
- 07 mars Journée Circuit Alès 13 février
- 19 mars Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 20 février
- 23 mars Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 27 février
- 29 mars Journée Circuit Dreux 06 mars
- 04 avril Journée Circuit Zolder 13 mars
- 17 avril Journée Circuit Val de Vienne 27 mars
- 25 avril Journée Circuit Folembray 03 avril
- 17 mai Stage Pilotage “Femmes” Folembray 24 avril
- 25 mai Stage Pilotage Clio Nogaro 01 mai
- 27 mai Journée Circuit Brands Hatch 30 avril
- 01 juin Journée Circuit Spa Francorchamps 08 mai
- 08 juin Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 15 mai
- 13 juin Journée Circuit Laquais 22 mai
- 20 juin Journée Circuit Abbeville 29 mai
- 04 juillet Journée Circuit Nogaro 12 juin
- 09 juillet Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 12 juin
- 11 juillet Stage de Pilotage Le Luc 19 juin
- 24 juillet Journée Circuit Dijon 26 juin
- 11 août Journée Circuit Cadwell Park 17 juillet
- 22 août Stage de Pilotage Val de Vienne 31 juillet
- 03 septembre Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 07 août
- 09 septembre Journée Découverte Flins – Dreux 26 août
- 15 septembre Journée Circuit Oulton Park 21 août
- 26 septembre Journée Circuit Le Mans 04 septembre
- 02 octobre Journée Circuit Anneau du Rhin 11 septembre
- 08 octobre Journée Découverte Flins – Dreux 23 septembre
- 17 octobre Journée Circuit Le Luc 25 septembre
- 26 octobre Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 02 octobre
More Information can be found on the RenaultSport France Website: European Trackdays
Get booking Now – they are great fun as there are not normally a lot of people on track and they are great value for money compared to days run by TDO’s.
Always a Hooligan,
/y0z
RenaultSport Clio 172 Stainless Exhaust Systems – Stealth, Sports and Race
RenaultSport Clio 172 Stainless Exhaust Systems
Stealth, Sports and Race - Exhaust Systems for the RenaultSport Clio 172 and 172 Cups.
Guys and Girls,
Welcome again, I hope that you are finding these guides useful, people seem to be using this resource more and more, so if there is anything you would like a guide writing for, please feel free to email us: Contact YozzaSport.
Clio 172 Road Exhaust Systems
Removing the Catalytic Convertor on a Clio 172
One of the first points is the Catalytic convertor. If you remove the Cat on a standard 172 you will find that the noise will increase considerably. It is however the most cost effective modification that you can make to the car.
You will gain between 4-5 BHP normally with just a decat. We have tested both 2.25″ and 2.5″ pipes and find that 2.5″ decats are more effective in producing more power, however, the difference between these two diameters can be about 1db in terms of outputted noise.
Sports Catalytic Converter (Sports-Cat)
Clio 172 Race Exhaust Systems
How can I get the most power out of my Clio 172 Exhaust System?
YozzaSport actually designed our own race system to be as close to the Supersprint system as we could possibly get – the two systems can be see side by side below:
At a couple of kilos more, our YozzaSport system was designed to produce as much power as possible, but still retaining the long life and high quality that people should expect. We tested a number of different bore pipes – 2.25″ & 2.75″ and they basically made no difference to the output power nor torque, so we stuck with the middle ground to keep the systems within noise limits.
The perfect exhaust system on a 172 should be:
Stealth Exhausts
Stealth Exhausts are normally not designed to be specifically a sports system, as they are normally intended to replace the standard system when it fails. Our YozzaSport Stealth system was always intended to be a replacement for the OEM system. We used the same centre section as our sports systems to make the backboxes interchangeable for the customers who wanted to fit the race systems when they were on track.
Some More Pictures Of Our 172 Stealth Exhausts
Stealth Exhaust On A Clio 172 Cup
Sports Exhausts
Clio 172 Sports Exhaust
We offer two systems for the 172, one has a 2.25″ Backbox and the other a 2.5″ backbox. They share a centre section (2.5″) and are completely interchangeable.
YozzaSport 172 Stainless Steel Sports Exhaust