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DaveL485
27-05-2012, 12:01
My money pit. Or at least one of them. This is a small soundbite of the last few (many) years. The car has been a complete legend reliability wise despite me screwing the life out of it at every opportunity.... I have to clean tyre rubber off the bumpers FFS. It just sucks it up and asks for no more than routine maintenance.

I dragged this car from a scrap yard after a fire around the turn of the century.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/TQ1.jpg

Then I bought this disaster:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/21t.jpg

And shelled it into the crispy fried one.

Retro car show main stand a few years back after it was featured in the magazine:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/Photo-0246.jpg

It was then left stood for long enough to go mouldy after the arrival of childrens (expensive little buggers aint they!). I bought my firstborn back from the hospital in this car:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/quaddie/Photo-0002.jpg

I bunged a rather large intercooler at the front:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/quaddie/Photo-0007.jpg

New Plenum:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/quaddie/DSCF1625Medium.jpg

Lobbed a bucket seat in and stripped the inside out.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/quaddie/28mar141.jpg

And made this from the leftover leather seat, for GT5 fun:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/167916_486200715414_756630414_6170134_1766826_n.jp g

Not quite sure what I was doing here:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/DSCF1694Medium.jpg

I do, however, know what I was doing here :D (Yes, 4wd) :

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/2005_1207Image0062.jpg
2L NA front end fitted as the 2-cell Turbo lights didnt fit with my intercooler :laugh: :

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/DSCF1704Medium.jpg

Milestone (ish):

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/Pic-000001.jpg

Relocated battery:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/Pic-0023.jpg

Filled battery space with a swirl pot and pump:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/Swirl17.jpg

Changed the brakes (again) after a disc nearly broke in half:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/03-1.jpg

Decided I best upgrade the brakes. The car is wholly too fast for measly 285mm discs and i'm really struggling to maintain high speeds when chasing my buddies F-RS/Atom/Fezzer/RS4/Vantage.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/44f53967.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/182a622b.jpg

It also has a 38mm external wastegate and screamer pipe, mild hybrid T3 with a cossie back end with the wastegate welded up, a 3" turbo back mandrel bent exhaust and a few other tweaks around the car.

Coming back from Scoff's place after the Adaptronic was wired in, finally. I say finally, as I bought my unit almost ten years ago when Dave G was dealing them. It's taken me this long to get it fitted :cry::wasntme:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/2b0d967f.jpg


So. It's running on an internally standard J7R, OE management, OE fuelling and everything. The engine has never been apart from leaving the factory. It pulls like a nutter....I took this but the delay on the camera lot me a few mph after I lifted off. I hit the button at 150....and it does this regularly (on a private road of course).

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/France%202009/DSCF1809Medium.jpg

Bazzing around France with it's friends:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/France%202009/DSCF1785Medium.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/France%202009/DSCF1708Medium.jpg


The new engine destined for the bay has been around about eight years in development and building, mainly because of the cripplingly expensive, bespoke parts, and the arrival of a mortgage and 2 kiddies along the way.

More to follow shortly.
alex johnston
27-05-2012, 17:10
i remember many of your cars, and also the fuego turbo quarter maile car, you was the man with the parts for every renault, i had the red phase 1 5, and the cabriolet in purple and silver, the 9 turbo etc from southend on sea, also met up for a renault meet at the b52 cafe if you remember...
adscan
27-05-2012, 21:40
what is the light showing on your dash on the right?
turbo ted
27-05-2012, 21:43
that would be the abs light its going to quick to read the abs ring;)
DaveL485
28-05-2012, 00:07
that would be the abs light its going to quick to read the abs ring;)

Yep. Since fixed, they just needed a clean.
DaveL485
28-05-2012, 00:09
i remember many of your cars, and also the fuego turbo quarter maile car, you was the man with the parts for every renault, i had the red phase 1 5, and the cabriolet in purple and silver, the 9 turbo etc from southend on sea, also met up for a renault meet at the b52 cafe if you remember...

I remember, hello matey :D

Still got my 9, and the Fuego on top of the 21. Should be new threads on here for both soon! :agree:

Your old 9 dead now then?
alex johnston
28-05-2012, 08:51
I remember, hello matey :D

Still got my 9, and the Fuego on top of the 21. Should be new threads on here for both soon! :agree:

Your old 9 dead now then?the 9 lives on with a guy on here i think, hes restoring it, ive got a raider now, just sitting in the garage doing nothing:laugh:
alex barker
28-05-2012, 08:54
Mike at gt turbo spares has your 9 al. If I remember correct. I had posted a pic of it on the 21toc !
DaveL485
26-05-2013, 11:26
Decided the adapters for the calipers I made needed a change, in that the threaded hole for the radial mount needed a bit more meat, but because of the shape I couldn't just thread it down further (see pic). I decided to sleeve the hanger like so...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/null_zps990f77c3.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/null_zps990f77c3.jpg.html)

A friendly machinist did a great job, exactly what I asked for.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/AB09DEA2-BE85-4FEE-B728-254C5DE6DDC7-13124-0000146F43B45039_zps640df03a.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/AB09DEA2-BE85-4FEE-B728-254C5DE6DDC7-13124-0000146F43B45039_zps640df03a.jpg.html)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/C54026E9-33A3-4C5E-A9D2-4CA5BDAFD7C3-13124-0000146F4CF4688F_zps5f69ddbb.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/C54026E9-33A3-4C5E-A9D2-4CA5BDAFD7C3-13124-0000146F4CF4688F_zps5f69ddbb.jpg.html)


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/08FBE7D1-F579-490D-A382-305CB64C97E9-13124-0000146F544CF017_zpse0e6de51.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/08FBE7D1-F579-490D-A382-305CB64C97E9-13124-0000146F544CF017_zpse0e6de51.jpg.html)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/AE4A9C74-A29B-4C7B-97EC-27EDE8F0D83B-13124-0000146F59FFC2E4_zps5bba9d4a.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/AE4A9C74-A29B-4C7B-97EC-27EDE8F0D83B-13124-0000146F59FFC2E4_zps5bba9d4a.jpg.html)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/BB262198-5CEF-4D1E-A5C9-D5179C005D8B-13124-0000146F5FF00433_zpsa50c8431.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/BB262198-5CEF-4D1E-A5C9-D5179C005D8B-13124-0000146F5FF00433_zpsa50c8431.jpg.html)

Then we TIG welded the bases in

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/20130520_171148_zpscd12fbec.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/20130520_171148_zpscd12fbec.jpg.html)

Skimmed the tops flat and TIG'd the tops too....no wire though just melted the tops in so it didnt stick up.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/20130520_171135_zps8453a4b7.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/20130520_171135_zps8453a4b7.jpg.html)

Finally I cut the M10 bolts to the right length to use all of the new thread, but without bottoming out.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/20130520_171157_zps47380c63.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/20130520_171157_zps47380c63.jpg.html)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/20130520_171213_zps501f5c34.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/20130520_171213_zps501f5c34.jpg.html)

I did initially want these done in ally but as a one-off it was quite expensive to get it drawn up on CAD and machined as I don't "know" anyone in the biz. These are made from stainless and cost me about £40 all in, most of that being fuel running them around to the machinist/welder :agree:

Weight wise, the caliper and adapter are about the same as the OE caliper so I can live with it for now!

All in all the 330mm brake upgrade has cost me about £650....bearing in mind the only bolt-on kit for this car is 325mm and north of £1200 retail and the SAME calipers and pads (!) I'm quite pleased :)
DaveL485
07-08-2013, 08:55
Long awaited, final main components for the bottom end. Conrods rated, apparently, to 800hp and 10,000rpm so I should have plenty of safety margin! ARP bolts were included too :)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/quaddie/20130802_173255_zps928811e0.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/quaddie/20130802_173255_zps928811e0.jpg.html)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/DaveL485/quaddie/20130802_173248_zps6ccbc846.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/DaveL485/media/quaddie/20130802_173248_zps6ccbc846.jpg.html)

An absolute steal at £120.





...per cylinder :rofl: