Your First car

[Matt-Rallye]

An F7 v340 is cool .... for all of about 5 minutes until they eat their prop. Better off with a 360 and a volvo redblock

What where the F7P clios badged as? Just '16v'? I know the engines better than i know the cars. Though theyre few and far between these days. Bex would love one but im not getting rid of the AX and theres no other room

That tungsten one would look awesome on some turbines, never been keen on the daisies.

Correct sir, the Valver was badged and marketed solely as the 'Clio 16v' (as it was the only production 16v clio at the time!) I want another so badly now after looking through all my photos!

But i do forget some of the bad bits, for example the standard ph2 clio immobiliser! having to blip the key before being able to start the car ate through key batteries and left me stranded on more than one occasion Also the gearbox / diff assembly was always its achilles heel! I blew 2nd gear out of the diff casing on the tungy one in the process of enthusiastically exiting a roundabout in hot pursuit of a corsa VXR

Also on another occasion (again in the 'tungy') i was waiting patiently in traffic, unbeknown to me at the time the exhaust manifold heat shield on the bulkhead had fallen off, the heat from the manifold melted and seized solid the throttle cable and the bonnet release cable luckily the bonnet opens the 'wrong' way on a mk1 clio and was fairly easy to force open and then set the idle too 4k and drive it home from swansea!

Worth every second i spent under the bonnet though! Induction roar on them dwarfs a gti6 and standard for standard the car itself is 10x better than a gti6.

I bet that was a fun piece of kit!

Indeed it was!

I'd absolutely love a mk1 valver

Buy one now... they are rapidly appreciating! so much so i have often considered selling my rallye to fund a garage queen one.