Richdog said:
Hi mate nice to hear from a renault-guru! What do you mean my version is the bug headlights? Mine is still the old version I thinkm wasn't it the newer 1998 model/shape that had the bugs or am I on the wrong track?
75BHP is fine for me as it stands, my insurance/wallet couldn't take anything meatier. I guess at 120mph it would be almost falling apart though? Probably take about 5 mins to get there too.
I will scour Ebay for alloys, want to pay £200 max so will have to keep a beady eye in the auctions for somnething good. Im not painting them any other colour though lol, anything other than silver looks daft on a silver car in my opinion!
What kind of non boy-racerish mods could I get away with doing to the car then?
Yeah yours is still a Mk1, but they had three different 'Phases' of the Mk1 Clio and on the Phase 3 which you have they changed (as well as other things) the front headlights so that the indicators and fron lights are all one unit, they also have a more curvy shape and the bonnet also curves over the lights.
The Phase 1 and 2 lights, imo look better, but to have Phase 1/2 lights you also need a Phase 1/2 bonnet
Ah didn't know it was silver, thought it was red for some reason :/ lol
Yeah agree that anything other would look stupid. Well the Williams wheels are gold with a diamond cut rim to them but you could get them sprayed silver which I've seen or fully polished and they look very nice.
As for mods you're best off getting a few basic 'breathing' mods. First thing would be a de-cat. This replaces you Catalytic convertor and helps the egnine rev more freely. Also replace the standard air filter with an ITG panel filter. These filters replace your exisitng filter in your OE airbox but let more air through. Wont make a huge difference but it should be more responsive.
the de-cat will deffo make a difference though, but you will want to keep your Catalytic convertor just in case, for MoT time.
Then you can move onto things like getting the engine head ported and polished, fitting a larger TB, engine re-map etc etc.
I've got an interesting link to a car identical to yours having it's head ported and polsihed. makes a good read tbh.
I'll post it up if you want.
Tbh though I'd keep the standard backbox or replace it with a standard Clio RSi/16v/Williams bacbox and then do the filter and de-cat.
Really it's just something you get used to with time. 
But I couldn't afford it and I got a good deal anyway. 
