Renault 5 GT Turbo Tungsten Track Car

[elcie]

Bought this back in July 2010 as a project with the sole idea off just using it for the shell, It had a full re spray a couple of years back and both sills replaced recently, So was a good base to start on. Then I was away in Canada for a month so nothing happened to it for a while.











I hadn't really touched it since I buying it and it just sat on my drive looking like this for the winter months.





My plans where to fit a 180-200bhp Renault 5 GT Turbo engine I had and turn into a reliable track car. That then went out of the window when I was offered a complete F7P Turbo converted Renault 5 GT Turbo. It had only done about 1200 miles since the re build and had receipts adding up too thousands so I bought it !


One on the way back from picking it up.





The engine






Now that I had the new engine I thought I better start building the car up.

Over the last 6 months I have been collecting some parts for the build also cleaning up some others that I all ready had like:


Safety devices roll cage





Sabelt 6 point harness and seat





Willwood 4 pots





Carbon fibre bonnet





15" Oz super turismo wheels





Poly bushed sub frame with new wish bone's and ball joints









Starting work on the good grey one


Day one - Interior













Day two - Engine bay













Day three - In the garage, I managed to remove most of the seam sealant and done some of the work getting it ready for painting, still loads more to do though.







Day four - Carried on with the interior, dash, loom and heater out.











Also some help from Daisy.





So that's it so far, I've missed loads of bit's like the 4 hours i spent scraping sound deading off and the roof lining, but all of those picture are on my camera as you can see these one are just the **** ones of my iPhone.

Got so many plans for it in the future, but I'm holding back on alot as i want it ready for Mallory Park 2011.

Will do my best to keep this updated. enjoy Lewis

[Jonny5]

Looks like alot of hard work gone it to getting where you are now mate. Car was a good base to start with its the one from the bodywork section on gtturbospares isnt it?

[James5]

Lewis looking good wondered whom had bought sammogtt's 16v turbo 5, as you say that engine should be good.

Keep, the pic's coming when you are able can you get a pic of the 16v turbo downpipe out of the car

[elcie]

Looks like alot of hard work gone it to getting where you are now mate. Car was a good base to start with its the one from the bodywork section on gtturbospares isnt it?

Thanks, yeah been trying my hardest as there is so much to do before Mallory.

Yes this is the car from the site.

[elcie]

Lewis looking good wondered whom had bought sammogtt's 16v turbo 5, as you say that engine should be good.

Keep, the pic's coming when you are able can you get a pic of the 16v turbo downpipe out of the car

Yes that was me Ok will do. I already looked at the down pipe and it goes all over the place but has been made really well.

[elcie]

Few more pictures,














I bought the OE replica dails a new clear plastic front as mine had a crack in it.





I had my clay bar and wheel wax turn up. So spent some of the afternoon claying my front bumper. Got a bit carried away and wanted to clay more stuff, so moved onto my wheel's, I only got one done as I've now have a blister on my thumb. :thumbdown:







I was working like crazy all over the weekend until 1am most nights. There is so much work to be done and everything seems to take twice and long as planned. Still good fun though.

Bought a filler neck of a Renault 5 Campus to replace the second fuel tank found on the GT Turbo.



I borrowed a welder to patch up a few bits, Lovely gas less MIG. Not ! hardest thing I have ever used. That's why it looks like this



Carried on though and done a patch in the engine bay after using Kurust on it.





Also lost the last of the seat brackets.









Finally moved onto removing more of the seam sealer.








This stuff makes such a mess and get's everywhere.

[HAndy]

getting there

should look when done, and nice to see another f7p 5

[philg]

great work

[elcie]

Thanks for the comments




Done some more welding with the worlds worst welder I borrowed.









The weldings not the best, but i will be grinding it back so you wont notice.













Then moved onto removing more of the seam sealer.

[elcie]

Spent some on friday night in the garage cleaning of the glue left from the head lining,




Cut away some of the bottom of the front bumper to try and save some weight from it,









And then spent the afternoon wet n' drying the front end down ready for painting.











Just can't wait to start building the car up now.

[elcie]

Got the most of the front end in paint now. It was going to go to the body shop to have the inside and engine bay painted gloss black but time is tight before National day so I decieded to do it myself. I was given 6 can's of Ford matt black for free so thought why not, It was only meant to be a quick job to protect it from surface rust, but you can't seem to ever do a quick job on this car.









The yellow stuff is filler primer, then I used some hi build primer.





1200 grit wet n' dry







Cleaned down the surface with some panel wipe





Matt blacking, the bits little bit you see are seam sealer that flicked up as I took the pictures later in the day.









As I'm running bonnet pins on the carbon bonnet I cut away the catch.







Removing more seam sealer.





Wire wheel disc after about 6 hours use





Mates turned up so got them to sanding and scraping on evan more seam sealer.





I got bored at this point, So I put my 15" OZ wheels and my mates Clio 182, Coilovers want winding down now though.

[elcie]

Had 6 cans of 3M under seal turn up today, The 6 should hopefully do the whole of the underside of the car.

[mattk]

Looking good mate, look forward to see it round mallory on ND

[elcie]

Looking good mate, look forward to see it round mallory on ND

Thanks, me too.

[elcie]

Painted most of the front end and just trail fitted the wing.









Then gave the bonnet a clay and polish and cleaned the catches.

[elcie]

Started on the rear end at the weekend as the front is done for now.

Had some pleasant surprises when I took the rear bumper and arches off though













Wasn't happy at the weekend and really wanted to through the towel in with the whole project, it's just turning into such a big job ! Wished I had just bought a newer car something like clio 182 or something.

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

Some of ashy's rear bumper mounts section will help you...

Why do people take the bidykits off.... all you will ever find is rust.... 5 years ago you may have found a nice suprise... now days.... not so much

Good project tho

[James5]

Not good and very surprising considering that car had an apparent full restoration by the previous owner whom was a car sprayer, looks like he sorted so it looked good but was hidding things underneath bits.

Keep at it Lewis if you do it right it will last along time before anything happens.

[elcie]

So after my little sulk I started up the other car with the F7P Turbo engine still in, and that put a massive smile back on my face.

Next day I got the car back out and winched it up the garaged to ready to do the underside.




And that's how it still stands.

[djinuk]

have no fear, thats all normal stuff.

check my project, might help with places to check for rust.

https://www.rtoc.org/boards/showthread.php?t=7962&page=3

also them sections of ashys are great.. might be worth investing in some por15 at this point.

[elcie]

Some of ashy's rear bumper mounts section will help you...

Why do people take the bidykits off.... all you will ever find is rust.... 5 years ago you may have found a nice suprise... now days.... not so much

Good project tho

Thanks, yep planing on getting the rear repair panels now.

I know I know, but it just had to be done, I was to inquisitive

[elcie]

Not good and very surprising considering that car had an apparent full restoration by the previous owner whom was a car sprayer, looks like he sorted so it looked good but was hidding things underneath bits.

Keep at it Lewis if you do it right it will last along time before anything happens.

I know james, I said the same thing weeks ago when I found all the rust holes inside of the car.

Really, it was just a blow over on the outside ! and that still wasn't the best job in my eyes.

Owl well, it can only get better from now on. fingers crossed

[TNT Tricky Nicky]

alot of effort going into this, would be a shame to give up on it now. makes me want to get going on mine again but it can wait.

i took all my body kit off and stripped down before i started doing any repair work just so i knew what i was dealing with before i started, i didn't want to spend time and money to find the back end was shot, but it's all fixable just dishearting when you find more bits that need repairing.

don't want to worry you but i'm sure somebody has said that matt paint in the engine bay isn't a good idea as it hard to keep looking clean

[elcie]

have no fear, thats all normal stuff.

check my project, might help with places to check for rust.

https://www.rtoc.org/boards/showthread.php?t=7962&page=3

also them sections of ashys are great.. might be worth investing in some por15 at this point.

Thanks, yeah I have been following your project thread and I see you have used the repair sections. I looking good can't wait to see it come back from paint. I think I have found most of the rust now though but I know the screen will need doing, I'm going to leave that to maybe next year when the car get's sprayed inside and out.

Luckily my sills have all ready been done not to long ago, I'm sure they would have looked the same as yours otherwise.

[elcie]

alot of effort going into this, would be a shame to give up on it now. makes me want to get going on mine again but it can wait.

i took all my body kit off and stripped down before i started doing any repair work just so i knew what i was dealing with before i started, i didn't want to spend time and money to find the back end was shot, but it's all fixable just dishearting when you find more bits that need repairing.

don't want to worry you but i'm sure somebody has said that matt paint in the engine bay isn't a good idea as it hard to keep looking clean

Thanks, yeah I'm not going to give up just yet, got to drive it first

I did rush into it a bit but I'm such a tight time scale I wanted to get it done, and having already had a restoration I didn't think it was going to be this bad. But like DJINUK said I think all 5's have the rust just that most of it is hidden and when you see it it's to late.

The matt black it only a temporary job to stop the worse of the surface rust, as the paint was free and I don't have time before mallory to get it painted properly. But already is proving to be a bitch to keep clean.

[djinuk]

thanks , mew neither, funny you mention the screen , i went to the bodyshop today and they have just took it out, just updated the thread with pics

[elcie]

I'm going to be replacing all my brake lines with fresh copper stuff, not to sure what size to use though,

Maybe something like this ? 3/16" in size as that seams to be the most common.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-16-X-25-FT-7...#ht_1922wt_907

Obversely I know I need a cutter, bender and flairier


Thanks

[Tony Walker]

restoration?? or respray??? mine was worse when i bought mine, similar story, recently resprayed looked mint..... a year later bubbles bubbles bubbles. Your doing a great job though so dont be too disheartened it is worth it trust me.

[James5]

restoration?? or respray??? mine was worse when i bought mine, similar story, recently resprayed looked mint..... a year later bubbles bubbles bubbles. Your doing a great job though so dont be too disheartened it is worth it trust me.

http://www.gt-turbo-spares.co.uk/Ind...um=1&gallery=1

[TNT ANDY]

I've just done this on mine - cost me £60 to have all made up at Motor factors. I have been told by a few people now, that it is just not worth making your own lines up. Apparently the cheap formers etc make hard work of it, so I took mine off and handed them over to recieve some shiney new ones for just £60.00.

[djinuk]

id argue its definatly worth making your own.. enough copper pipe to do the car is £7, a few ends about 30 p each..

I use the laser brake flaring tool and it works a treat.

Also once you got the tools you never have that issue of doing a job on a car only to get to a point where that 20 year old brake lines ready to break at the tiniest bit of movement , as you simply crack the tools out and make a fresh one.

[youngscottie]

make your own brakepipes
made thousands over the years
all you need is a flairing tool and thumbs on your hands

[elcie]

Thanks everyone.

So going to make my own using the 3/16" stuff

Will let you know how I get on.

[TNT ANDY]

id argue its definatly worth making your own.. enough copper pipe to do the car is £7, a few ends about 30 p each..

I use the laser brake flaring tool and it works a treat.

Also once you got the tools you never have that issue of doing a job on a car only to get to a point where that 20 year old brake lines ready to break at the tiniest bit of movement , as you simply crack the tools out and make a fresh one.

in 20 years - only had to do this once would be my argument.

What, more tools in the garage that I only use every quarter century - lol.

[elcie]

Not really done a lot over the last couple of days, as I felt I've been working on the car every day and night since I started on it. So went out clubbing friday night and turned up to the RTOC meet down Southend seafront by mistake last night


I did get my willwood disc's painted though, as they have been sitting around the attracted some surface rust, and rusty disc's do look **** !






Rubbed them down lightly with the angle grinder wire wheel, then gave them a light coat of very high temp paint (the pads will just wear out the paint on the face)

[elcie]

Stared the job today I have been putting off for the last week, wire wheeling the underside of the car ready for underseal !


I had to go and buy a new grinder first as I killed the last one.




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Holding the grinder in the air for any length of time kills your arms, so kept stopping and done some other jobs

Stripped down the rear beam






Cleaned up the rear disc's ready for painting like the front ones, They look **** and eat through pad with the grooves In, but I might as well get some use from them before getting new ones.


Also took the bottom of the boot lid off as I wanted to change the badges over to an original one I had on my other car, the cars are different shades so I can't just clip the other strip back in.





It does have some laquar peal but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, as I don't really want to paint it.




I made a right mess taking the old badge of as it was all bonded on. It's going to be to visible with the new smaller badge fitted, so I't really needs re-painting. The problem Is, the paint is a non OE paint and a mix of a few different colors so will be really hard to match. I think I'm just going to do it gloss black for now or get it carbon wraped to kinda match the dark black bonnet. :/

[elcie]

Slowly getting there with cleaning the underside down, Done about half of it now.





Cleaned up the the rear beam a bit, looks a lot better than I thought, considering how rusty it was.







Cleaning up the rear arch,





Then Cut away some more unneeded weight, also the rear compensator bracket andd spare wheels cage hangers.







That's it for yesterday.

[Bass J]

Awesome work! ..i like what your doing with this! ..will be watching this project ..wish i had the time to do what youve done

[elcie]

Thanks,

As I wont be running a heater, I filled in the hole's for the fan and heater matrix will some thin aluminum sheet.















I also made some new mounts for the bonnet pins, Again out off some aluminum strip.







Mk 1 vs Mk 2






Finished, Cut away unwanted thread as well.

[rs250nut]

I like threads like this one, good job bud. Also, nice bike

[dizzeeR5]

awsome awsome project matey, im glued to this thread now lol

[elcie]

I like threads like this one, good job bud. Also, nice bike

Thanks, I've sold it now to fund this

[elcie]

What is this bracket for bolted on my anti roll bar ?

[gimme5]

acts as a stabaziler against the twisting force from one side of the anti roll bar to the other

were did you sell my old car to, G898 BAJ, is it not looking so good now
looked allright 15 year ago

[scott 5gtt]

What is this bracket for bolted on my anti roll bar ?

strengthens it up mate and stops it flexing in the middle

[elcie]

acts as a stabaziler against the twisting force from one side of the anti roll bar to the other

were did you sell my old car to, G898 BAJ, is it not looking so good now
looked allright 15 year ago

Cheers thought it might be that.

A kid that lived up In New Market way. shame as I see it go back up for sale 2 weeks later.

[elcie]

strengthens it up mate and stops it flexing in the middle

Thanks

[elcie]

Right, not done a lot over last month really, as I figured I was never going to make Mallory Park in June and I didn't want it to be a "that al do" project, to get it finished.

On the plus side, after weeks of research, phone calls and haggling I got a myself a new welder.
If you know about welding you will know how good Lincoln Electric welders are! I went for the 191c model with the new Al bee gas.


Also bought some campus rear window seals, as a mate Is looking into getting templates made up for 4mm Lexan poly carb windows. Plastics for performance wont silly money for there window kit, so im just going to make my own.


Will get some pictures up tomorrow.

Lewis

[djinuk]

that inner rear arch looks to be in really good nick.. keep at it, im watching this project all the time .

[James5]

Cheers thought it might be that.

A kid that lived up In New Market way. shame as I see it go back up for sale 2 weeks later.

Looks like it's back up for sale on Pistonheads
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2640529.htm



By the way Lewis project is looking good matey