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Hi guys, just joined and being as this is a renault turbo club i guess this qualifies on here
theres loads too it so please be patient while i upload them from another forum
i bought my car on the 1st of April 2008 for £3800!!! (a lot i know! part exed a ford escort for £400 tho) anyway shes an x reg (00) 1.6 16v sport alize, when i had her she had just reached 30k genuine miles and the garage changed timing belt brakes and gave it a full service for me.
This is not long after, completley standard.
after a few weeks i started to get cracking on how i wanted her to look.
•1st were the alloy wheels (wolfrace prosprint)
•then came the tinted windows
•longlife backbox
•black lens repeaters
•aerotwin wipers
•some renault mudguards
•after wrestling for 2 months with my torsion bar i managed to lower her and i bought springs for the front uprated the dampers all around
•painted calipers and drums white!
•groved disks & crappy green stuff pads
•some HID headlights and led sidelights
•coupe club stickers
•private plate
•silverline indicator bulbs
•and a nice little touch for my boy... his 1st trainers hanging from my rear view
so this is how she looked afterwards
plans at the time were...
exterior...
•Laguna splitter
•spats front and rear
•respray the front bumper
•astra mk 4 spoiler
•possibly a full respray in the distant future
interior...
•nice sound system
perfformance...
Refurb the whole braking system, including rear drum to disk conversion
lower more on the front
engine...
•bought this a few months ago (F7R with spare engine)
will be tuning the spare engine and building it up and swapping it into my car
Engine performance...
•ported and polished head
•3 angle valve seats
•road race cams
•rebored & honed block
•High compression pistons
•lightened flywheel and crank
•cold air feed
•Full longlife system including custom manifold
•omex ECU
started collecting things to complete the exterior...
astra mk 4 spoiler
spats
reinforced (fibreglass) laguna splitter
i also received some EBC rear disks and braided brake hoses ready for the drum to disk conversion at the rear
started work on the F7R head, stripped the valves from it and gave it a quick blast with a jetwash
Bokked in to the bodyshop to have all the planned work carried out
a before picture...
after going to the bodyshop to have the front bumper and splitter resprayed door handles and spats resprayed and a new astra mk 4 spoiler fitted, i gave her a quick clean today and she now looks like this....
managed to get the brake disks more or less prepped ready for fitting when i get around to it
and i went and took a load of stuff that i dont need off the donor car to sell on,
shes starting to look a little sorry for herself now...
took the head up to AP-D today should have it back in about 2-3 weeks,(<pahahahaha)
while i was up there i seen scotts car and decided it was in need of some attention so i took a picture of it with mine lol...
also took a pic of the font calipers all ready to go on with new rubbers and paint