5 GT Turbo EFI - GT Turbo

[Gary]

Mad Max Style

 

[Mark Davis]

Mad Max Style

Sounds like it too, I think it may be a bit much but will wait to see once I have completed a few miles.

 

[Gary]

Sounds like it too, I think it may be a bit much but will wait to see once I have completed a few miles.

Love to see a picture of the passenger looking out of the window on full chaf

 

[Mark Davis]

Gear linkage for shifter is sorted after a bit of fiddling to try and get reverse working properly but all done so ready for some miles this weekend.

The dash is fully functioning apart from configuring the fuel level sender and fitting a bracket for the wheel speed sensor.

Scoff kindly sent me a new plug pin and correctly colour coded wire for MVSS to enable boost by gear.

Ready to rock, let’s see how long this iteration lasts.

 

[Mark Davis]

First road test this afternoon and although at first the bonnet exit sound is a little jarring, when actually driving you get used to it quickly. I don’t hate it as much as I thought I would.

All seems well with new bottom end, oil pressure, oil temp and water temp all hold firm as you’d expect.

Dash is working fine, still need to sort wheel speed sensor and fuel level sensor but not hugely important for mapping.

Clutch feels nicer, still a nice solid bite but not quite as severe as the last one. May get harsher as it’s worn in though.

The most telling for me though is running this larger .86 housing it doesn’t seem to have changed spool too much at all. Not really moving passed 3k revs for the first few miles but already out of vacuum and seeing 1-2 psi at 3k which is promising.

Hopefully the rain stays away and can put some proper miles on tomorrow.

Spool sounds mega too with bonnet exit and I’ve already seen some meaty 1 foot flames engine breaking at 3k. Good times ahead

 

[Mark Davis]

A few short clips of running in, no more than

Youtube/Instagram stream or its not happening

Interestingly using the Turbo Renault # doesn’t seem to work for me. Been wasting all those precious clicks adding it to my Insta posts for no reason

 

[andybond]

A few short clips of running in, no more than


Interestingly using the Turbo Renault # doesn’t seem to work for me. Been wasting all those precious clicks adding it to my Insta posts for no reason

It will be doing mate - StavTech did the last one ( a video ) of your car. I am working on a problem to auto grab all #turboRenault tags and then re push them as our own. Taking a bit of time as Insta keep on changing their APIs and are funny about re intsa pushing content that strictly speaking doesnt belong to you, just via the tag.

 

[Mark Davis]

Yeah it’s no biggie mate, was just looking through the TR insta posts at other members cars and noticed the last year or so of mine hasn’t shown for some reason, probably user error

 

[andybond]

Yeah it’s no biggie mate, was just looking through the TR insta posts at other members cars and noticed the last year or so of mine hasn’t shown for some reason, probably user error

Ill take a look into it - see if there are any anomalies. Please , please keep tagging!

 

[Brigsy]

Tag us in the pic mark Its hectic on there. You should see the inbox its rammed haha

 

[Mark Davis]

A few have flashed up this morning Jon, I clearly have no idea how Insta work's. Feeling my age, lol

 

[Mark Davis]

Spools well, taking it to 5 k, 4th gear pull hits boost cut of 33psi.

 

[Mark Davis]

Went to get car mapped today, massive air leak from injector ports, number 3 in particular as when smoke and air tested it pisses out everywhere. We changed all O-rings on injectors to make sure it wasn’t those causing the leaks and it wasn’t.

The cause is inlet design, the injector ports are on the piss and not sealing.

£150 down today for no reward.

Back to the drawing board but in the meantime it can stay in garage whilst I decide what to do.

#renaultlife

 

[Adey]

oh ffs not what was needed

 

[Clarkey]

Gutted .....
Was this the leak you was trying to find last week ?

 

[Mark Davis]

Gutted .....
Was this the leak you was trying to find last week ?

No that was oil leak this is piss poor manifold design.

Will start to find a solution this weekend. I won’t give in.

 

[Andyquadra]

No that was oil leak this is piss poor manifold design.

Will start to find a solution this weekend. I won’t give in.

Send it back to the maker?

 

[Mark Davis]

Send it back to the maker?

I’ve got a man locally who I believe can sort.

 

[Andyquadra]

I’ve got a man locally who I believe can sort.

but you paid good money to have it made and its wrong

 

[TNT Andy]

Went to get car mapped today, massive air leak from injector ports, number 3 in particular as when smoke and air tested it pisses out everywhere. We changed all O-rings on injectors to make sure it wasn’t those causing the leaks and it wasn’t.

The cause is inlet design, the injector ports are on the piss and not sealing.

£150 down today for no reward.

Back to the drawing board but in the meantime it can stay in garage whilst I decide what to do.

#renaultlife

Gutted for you Mark, But stay strong, you're almost there, and with epic conversions like yours, the last bit is were you're most likely to get frustrated etc as you're soooooooo nearly there. I understand why you would want to get the manifold sorted locally, but I'm with a few of the others here, chat to the original designer / builder and ask for him to sort it and £150 back. Ultimately, it was his work that let you down, he charges top dollar, you should get top service.

Watching with interest.