R5 GTT (abit of restoration)

[Bushy]

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It's been a while since i last posted on rtoc so i thought id take the opotunity to put up some pictures and info on what ive been upto with the car.

Having owned the car now for 4-5years i had a whole list of things built up that needed doing on the car, so took the oppotunity to tackle some of the issues whilst the engine was out (in the raider shown in one of the pics)

The first issue to tackle any rust, and to protect against future rust in the engine bay area. Having had the engine out a few times in the last few years knocks have taken its toll on the paintwork.







As you can see there was a reasonable amount of rust under the drivers side front wing which needed abit of welding work



The engine bay itself, abit of a mess




Took the oppotunity to clean off some surface rust that had accumulated on the wing, treat it and protect it

[Bushy]

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The engine bay was then sand blasted, preped and painted





It had by this stage become apparent that two new sills on either side were required, both of which got done before a clean up under the wheel arches before some undersealant.




While on the front end of the car, i was taking my options for brakes into consideration, i had to replace my calipers and for good measure my m/c + quickly managed to get my hands on these




I had to play around with them abit as they weren't going to work with the 285mm discs i was using due to there offset. After abit of investigation i played around with discs off a 182 clio which seemed to do the trick nicely!

[Bushy]

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Unfortunatly when the sills were being welded in it became apparent that there was further welding required to the floor, My intention had always been to get the inside of the car tidied up so this didn't pose a major problem. However some of the wiring on the drivers side that runs down the chassis leg did catch fire slightly!!

All in all it was looking abit messy in there





So the dash came out and abit of cleaning was required!





This time me and my friend rob (while i help he definatly does most of the work!) decided we'd have a go at painting the inside ourselves! We did borrow a gun and were advised by a proffesional painter, so we were fairly confident it would be ok. By now the roll cage had long since been welded in.

Back half first





Then the front

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

Looking very nice, good to see a local-ish lad working on his car... be interesting to see this come to live, perhaps some time i can pop up and see the car in the flesh.

[dgdogz]

lookin gorgeous mate
excellent work so far

[RICHIE]

totaly sexual mate

[Bushy]

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Next (partly seeing as we had the left over materials from painting the inside) the area behind the scuttle pannel needed some work. The sound deadening had been removed, and the wiring was untidy so that go set upon




all prepd and masked






Water injection and rev limiter fitted albeit that the engine is still in the raider



New section of loom run to replace the damaged lot that went up in smoke! lol



...and after a good sort out of the wiring the dash has almost been completely refitted



and thats about as far as i am to date!! Ive got a few bits and pieces laying around but not much point fitting them whilst theres still so much to be done!! lol

Cheers for the good comments made, always nice to have feedback, questions and opinions

[Bushy]

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perhaps some time i can pop up and see the car in the flesh.

No problem at all mate, unfortunatly its not currently somewhere i can just take people, however as soon as its back at mine you'd be more than welcome......im hoping that it'll be sooner rather than later....still got alot to do though

[wrightygtt]

Good work fella.

[phase i 16 v turbo]

Looking good! Have you also got the J reg and Radier? If so nice1!

[Duncan Grier]

Good work, looking nice

[J$£5GTT]

nice work!

[James5]

Looking good so when do you fancy doing mine then

[Bushy]

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A few other bits that have been going on in the meantime that ive just found some pictures of!

Basically replacing my rear calipers + discs and a new handbrake mechanism along with a new heat shield for the fuel tank! The other one was falling apart!! Most of it will be coming off the car again now im going abit further with it then origionally intended






Baffled sump will be on the engine....when i get there far

[Bushy]

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Some of my suspension components have seen better days so along with the new coilovers the rest of it will all be replaced, im gradually getting round to getting the bits together, and a few other bits too! Subframe will be getting powdercoated at some stage fairly soon i hope then theres a few new bits to go on there too.

[Chris Hebden]

Stunning mate. I am in absolute ore of the time and effort your putting into the car!

[Bushy]

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...and my latest bit of kit thats turned up

[Frix]

very nice!

[markey b]

looking good fella!!

slight hijack... do you still speak to mike?

[gtmatt]

looks mint mate keep up the good work ,where are you souceing all your parts from ,supension parts wishbones etc ??

[Rob@Backyardracing]

i woundered what you been up too..... nice work mate....

[Adey aka Ewok]

bushy man, cars looking mint, is it the high comp vnt lump going in this?

[Os8472]

Fantastic work there mate, thats gunna 1 of the cleanest R5's ever when its done

[Bushy]

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looking good fella!!

slight hijack... do you still speak to mike?

Haven't spoke to him in a long while, probably years! You trying to get hold of him?

[Bushy]

looks mint mate keep up the good work ,where are you souceing all your parts from ,supension parts wishbones etc ??

Cheers Matt (im still on the case with my mate by the way ) Wishbones etc ive been using CGB, all the other little bit and bobs + sills i got from renault. Still got a few parts of the suspension to buy before i can build them all up though

bushy man, cars looking mint, is it the high comp vnt lump going in this?

Adey, cheers dude!! I think when i spoke to you last at Nat Day the car had just come off the road! Only be able to work on it at weekends makes for slow progress at times!

It will be having the same engine thats been in it for a while now, same as when it done its best times at pod. It'll get put in abit neater this time and ive got a gripper lsd box waiting to go in too!

[Bushy]

Stunning mate. I am in absolute ore of the time and effort your putting into the car!

Fantastic work there mate, thats gunna 1 of the cleanest R5's ever when its done

Cheers guys, im sure it will always remain a little rough around the edges! My intention is to use it as a track day car so it's not going to look the cleanest. Main idea is to have a good base so that the car stays around for the forseable future!

[Coops]

awesome work mate, love that your tackeling the lot urself on the drive as it were and getting bomber results with all the welding and painting etc, top banana

[tonesGTT]

That looks amazing. Enjoyed reading through this one. Keep up the great work

[Ashy]

Great work, wish I still had time to do this stuff!! Bet you're well chuffed!!

Watch out for a rusty windoscreen next time it rains tho

[dgdogz]

look brilliant mate
get more pics up

[gtmatt]

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Haven't spoke to him in a long while, probably years! You trying to get hold of him?

thanks mate will look foward from hereing from u

[Bushy]

Progress has been hard to come by in the past few weeks, what with the weather and other commitments. A few more bits have been sorted out though.....sorted out a decent postion for the brake bias valve thats easy to reach and not going to get in the way or knocked etc.......Also refitted the seats, i don't intend on keeping them really but im better off thinking about putting money into other bits at the moment! So for now they'll do.








Also found this when i was digging around my room, made me laugh!! Must have been a good 3-4 years back! I've seen that a few old renault articles have been uploaded so i'll try and put the whole article in that thread when i get a chance! Scoff, Haz and adeys cars are all in there.

[markey b]

Progress has been hard to come by in the past few weeks, what with the weather and other commitments. A few more bits have been sorted out though.....sorted out a decent postion for the brake bias valve thats easy to reach and not going to get in the way or knocked etc.......Also refitted the seats, i don't intend on keeping them really but im better off thinking about putting money into other bits at the moment! So for now they'll do.








Also found this when i was digging around my room, made me laugh!! Must have been a good 3-4 years back! I've seen that a few old renault articles have been uploaded so i'll try and put the whole article in that thread when i get a chance! Scoff, Haz and adeys cars are all in there.

i remember that shoot out, it was a couple of days after we went to the RR at jamsport for setup... i wanted to go too but work wouldn't give me the time off

[Bushy]

i remember that shoot out, it was a couple of days after we went to the RR at jamsport for setup... i wanted to go too but work wouldn't give me the time off

Thats right ....it might have even been the day after! I seem to remember driving back from Northampton only to drive back up again! lol ......it turned out to be p*ssing with rain all day too!

[pocket rocket]

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Looking Very nice great post,be interesting to see the finished product.


Plenty of stopping power only means one thing

[Adey aka Ewok]

looking good man, guna be awsome on track, gota get that feature up, i lost my copy

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

Bushy, i may have to give you a bell about spraying advise... might be giving my(soon to be - fingers crossed) cup car a blow over.

[Bushy]

Bushy, i may have to give you a bell about spraying advise... might be giving my(soon to be - fingers crossed) cup car a blow over.

Feel free mate, not sure how much help i'll actually be but i'll do my best to help! + i can always get some info from my mate who advised me if needed

I'll drop you a pm now

[Bushy]

Progress is sloooooowwwww! and the pictures below kind of reflect that! I have done some bits, and im hoping that things are going to start picking up pace again in the next few months. Im aiming to have everything sorted for national day! Trouble is i often only get one day a week to do anything to it!

Anyway...

My engines still in abit of a state!


two halfs in fact


Got another subframe that i'll be getting sorted out to use.


and all of these bits have gone to powdercoating today


Ive got a gearbox with gripper lsd that will be going in the car, so spent my time at the weekend sorting that out.



Got quite a few bits arriving this week so i should be pushing on with it abit more soon! ......well thats the theory anyway

[Matt@CodeRedMotorsports]

How much did you have to shorten the N/S driveshaft by Bushy?
Matt5

[Bushy]

How much did you have to shorten the N/S driveshaft by Bushy?
Matt5

Thats another hurdle i still need to cross! I got the box with the driveshaft but the guy reckoned it needed shortening more. Where ive got my old box and shafts im hoping it shouldn't be too hard to work out.

Have you got to do the same?

[Matt@CodeRedMotorsports]

I fitted Dave Clarks gearbox with a Gripper already installed, was assured by the guy who re-furbed the 'box it didn't need shortening....lo and behold....we did need to shorten it........

Obviously Russel T and Dave are the guys to ask, but off the top of my head it was around 25mm..........

[Bushy]

Yeah, i must admit i had 30mm in my head from what id read before. I haven't even looked at the one ive got up against a standard one yet! Should give me a clue as to how much shorter it is though. Quite looking forward to feeling how different it is to drive with the lsd

[Markey Mark (BD)]

I had mine shortened by an inch when i had the Gripper LSD gearbox, can't think who i sold mine to now.

I recognise the box in the pic's, believe its my mate Freds old one

[Bushy]

Some of my bits finally came back from powdercoating last week. Most importantly the subframe as i needed this to get things moving in the engine bay.




Had a few other bits turn up as well. My steering rack looked like it had a slight bend in one of the arms, and most of my suspension parts were corroded (see previous pictures). Aslo got the front half of my brake system as i'll need to run the lines before fitting the engine.




The only actual work that got done on the car was on Sunday. It was progress at least though!

[gtmatt]

looks mint mate , getting there now mate , mines taking ages , where did u get you new calipers from rears ??? im still welding and preping , keep up the good work mate

[pascal-GT]

very good job

[dickiegtt]

Amazing project.... Even with your limited time to work on it, it seems like you've had ages!! Top job mate look forward to seeing it one day! Another great read!

[Bushy]

Well more has been going on, my mate rob really deserves the praise for any progress there has been to date as he spends loads of his own time on my car and without that it wouldn't be in the shape its in now.

The car has been sat on axle stands for a while so refitted a subframe to get it moving about. This gave the oppotunity to try and do some work in the bay that was required before refitting the engine. Also meant that the new suspension bits had to go together.



All the new brake lines had to be made up for the front of the car




Id always had a clearance problem since fitting the one-piece downpipe and re-locating my header tank with the heater matrix pipes. You can see where the pipes are marked in this picture:



Luckily they haven't gone throught so it was decided to repair them and make a few mods.




The heatshield will be covered by a reflective heat surface, hopefully preventing any further problems to the pipes.

The engine has come together also, hopefully not too far from getting it all back up on the car! ...been a while. (cable ties on the heat wrap is just temporary until the proper ties arrive in the post)

[Boris]

Good work Bushy

Do you know who used to made the downpipe's for mike/msm? Is it the same guy from the group buy's thread?