5 GT Turbo 11 years later silver bullet comes home

[Duncan Grier]

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Renault 5 gt turbo used front windscreen repair panel cut out, see pics for condition.

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Looking at this seems hole is present

 

[Duncan Grier]

Ok quick look at @Chris74# pics and indeed there also.

Will drill slightly smaller hole and give it a tap to taper inwards a touch.

Strange donor had the plastic inserts but maybe it was a Friday production day lol

 

[Duncan Grier]

With the big bottle of gas just about on empty I wanted to finish it off and get a refill this week.....only while now on empty will not give up lol.

With the gap too big and needing a section of sheet cutting and inserting......



I of course took the other option and filled the gap with weld



With gas still flowing dropped a few weld on the steering rack mounts



Only to accept power hour over and will just create more rework randomly sticking metal together and accepted defeat

But before leaving had a quick measure with a little treat to myself to enable new layers of torture




Front was spot on with car level need to explore the rear of the car for any new opportunities

 

[Duncan Grier]

Nothing exciting but few bits ticked off

As definitely never having a GT turbo pedal/cable again filled the hole and above



Also cut out a bit of rot and had much fun on my side welding tin in confined corner a patch in, limited patience and cooling meant more holes to fill

Bit more to finish off but almost ready to tidy



Switched to some heat and remove oem sound deadening ready to fill holes

 

[Duncan Grier]

Had a power hour on seat, steering and pedal position....quick spacers to mount a touch more than needed to allow servo and pedal on


Seat in with slider on


Decided steering was ok, seat ok, pedal not sure...head room with lid on minimal

So slider off and solid mount option, same with much better clearance but cage side bar to consider (arm rest )



Pedal needs to be further away but other points seems good, got on to looking at what I could cut/shut in dedal housing and travel of M/C needed



So options and last consideration is the oem mounting bars and removing to allow sliders to bolt through floor with some strength adding of needed or super low solid

Of course steering rack angle and dash battle kicks in

 

[Turbell]

My piles don't like look of that seat.....