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Project Y

Chris H

master of boobies
Ocotber 2004. Soneji needed rid of a 1.4 3 door phase 1 19. I said yes despite not having seen the car. It had failed its MOT on a multitude of things, like dashboard (I don't know why either), rear brakes, front brakes, wipers and so on, but not a thing in regards to corrosion.

So on the 9th of October I went through and collected the car. Before it could move I had some work to do.

The strut on the offside had 1 bolt in the manual rack holes and 1 in the power steering holes, soon had that sorted. I also had to work on the back brakes so they actually worked.

It was then that I saw the car had money spent on it. Soneji (George) had got the car for free as the previous owner to him had spent £2k trying to get the car to pass an MOT. New stuff included new front discs and pads, new rear shoes, service items and a new clutch.

Anyway the car was then fit for the drive back to Glasgow from Edinburgh. Managed 110 mph out of it eventually on the secret underground private motorway that links these two great cities.

I could tell the timing was way to retarded, it started fine but didn't like to rev, pull and it stalled when floored. So the carb also needed looked at.

The 10th, some pics I took.

The engine bay, note Georges ingenious IK fitment!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20engine_2001.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20engine_2002.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20engine_2003.webp

Base spec interior, ahh not seen one of these in a long time! Note no central air vents and the gear lever surround.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20interior_2001.webp

grey carpet as well. One major benefit of the seats is the fact it weighs less than half the weight of a 16V seats!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20interior_2002.webp

The back of the car, also before the slabs for the driveway were laid

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear.webp

The outside, unadulterated car loveliness, note kink in door, a transit van attack!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20side_2001.webp

fo sho!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20side_2002.webp

It was then onto the work.

First job was to sort the leaking and non adjusting rear brakes.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20brakes_2001.webp

shoes etc all off

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20brakes_2002.webp

nice new shoes courtesy of a previous owner

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20brakes_2003.webp

shoes cleaned up, novelty kitchen roll shines a little light into the dark world for me...

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20brakes_2004.webp

the self adjusting mechanism and again new springs all cleaned up ready to go

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20brakes_2005.webp

assembled ready to go on the car

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20brakes_2006.webp

all shiny and neewwwww! like a virgin - wheel cylinder, bled for the very first tiimmme!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20brakes_2007.webp

all back together, rear nearside brake as new!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20brakes_2008.webp

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14th October 2004

Notice anything? No? Look again? Compare to above, there you go, yep 16V rear clusters

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2001.webp

Wheel trims that came with the car fitted, these are gen Ren Megane trims, its amazing the difference a set of trims can make to a car.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2002.webp

Note cable tie hanging under the bumper, that stayed on the car for AGES, it used to annoy Amber which is pertly why I left it on truth be told.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2003.webp

Next day it was time to get the interior started.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_20strip_2001.webp

note base spec gearknob and rubber gaiter!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_20strip_2002.webp

The drivers door dropped a good inch or so when opened so new hinge pins were needed

Door off

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20hinge_20pin_2001.webp

closer shot

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20hinge_20pin_2002.webp

new hinge pin and door refitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20hinge_20pin_2003.webp

old worn pins compared to new pins

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20hinge_20pin_2004.webp

Next day again, time to 16V the rest of the interior, for some reason the pics are in a funny order

rear seats and door cards in

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2001.webp

front door card

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2002.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2003.webp

nearside not much sound deadening from the factory

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2004.webp

offside loads of standard sound deadening

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2005.webp

grey carpet out

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2006.webp

16V black carpet fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2007.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2008.webp

16V front seat and gear lever surround fitted, note alarm loom hanging out from under the heater controls, promptly binned.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2009.webp

nice

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20int_2016V_2010.webp

The speedo cable jumped about, I had a look and it was missing the black and white bit, so spare ones fitted, jumping cured as well.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20speedo_20cable.webp

Also found this, broken vacuum feed.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20vacuum_20capsule.webp

it was repaired but never really made a difference to the cars running, there was still plenty wrong with it.

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A few days later, time to get into the running, valve gaps

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20valve_20gaps_2001.webp

inside the valve cover, not to bad tbh, I have seen then thick with gunge

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20valve_20gaps_2002.webp

the valve train - a piece of precision engineering and utmost accuracy, hmm

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20valve_20gaps_2003.webp

The bottom crank pulley was damaged, it had obviously been off before, you can just make out the ding

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pulley_2001.webp

straightened out

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pulley_2002.webp

heres a short very blurry vid of the engine running after the valves were adjusted, without the valve cover on

right click save as 218k

http://www.renault-turbo.com/chris/red 3 door/RED 3 door valve vid.mp4

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I had 16V alloys lying around spare so thought I'd stick em on. 13 inch steelies

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20wheels_2001.webp

ph1 16V alloys

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20wheels_2002.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20wheels_2003.webp

The 13's went back on and stayed on until very recently.

The car as I said earlier wasn't running to clever, this was a few minutes running

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exh_20crap_2001.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exh_20crap_2002.webp

I then jetwashed the engine as it was generally grubby and oily to go with it, poor pic but its a lot cleaner

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_203_20door_20engine_20clean.webp

then it was time to clean the cooling system up

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coolant_2001.webp

heater matrix hoses removed from the pump

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coolant_2002.webp

top rad hose off

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coolant_2003.webp

the thermostat is in the top radiator hose on the C type engines

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coolant_2004.webp

stat out

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coolant_2005.webp

corroded stubs

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coolant_2006.webp

wire brushed

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coolant_2008.webp

new one fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coolant_2009.webp

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1st December 2004

I was really taking my time with this, I did however have other cars to repair and this car wasn't needed as my mum was using project Onion.

Anyway it was time to remove and strip the carb to get the accel pump working.

The engine bay, note the airbox had been refitted long ago as Soneji wanted his IK back

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2001.webp

Airbox off

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2002.webp

carb off, the pipes you see are for the carb base heating, theres a small thermostat that stops flow over 50 degrees, also note heat shield

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2003.webp

carb off

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2004.webp

heat shield off and view of the combined cast inlet and exhaust manifold, Note bolt in breather pipe as the breather stub was broken

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2005.webp

nice oily heat shield

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2006.webp

heat shield cleaned, super bling

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2007.webp

heat shield fitted back on manifold

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2008.webp

draining the carb of fuel, note fuel can, Ambers in case you can't tell, she's very embarrassed about her name on it

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2009.webp

fibre spacer block gasket thingy

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20removal_2010.webp

So the carb stripdown

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2001.webp

manky

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2002.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2003.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2004.webp

stripdown, the throttle body, you can see where the coolant pipes go

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2005.webp

tb - main body gasket

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2006.webp

throttle bracket

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2007.webp

tb cleaned and going back together

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2008.webp

main body without the TB

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2009.webp

top removed from the main body

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2010.webp

stripping down

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2011.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2012.webp

carb top, the spike part, thats for the accel pump, it was blocked solid, I cleared it out of course

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2013.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2014.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2015.webp

back together, much cleaner!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2016.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2017.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2018.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2019.webp

fitted back onto the car

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20carb_20strip_2020.webp

as I had the cooling system stripped out I cleaned the header tank and rad

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rad_20header.webp

After that the car started and ran much better you could throttle it and it actually revved up instead of stalling.

So it was ready for the MOT. So took it round the block, coming back towards the house, I changed from 3rd into 4th, a nice smooth change, let the clutch out and bang.

Clutch had died! The car had only done about 200 miles at most since the clutch was changed by the previous owner.

I found out later whoever fitted the clutch had put the clutch plate in backwards thus it had fatigued it and it broke.

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2nd December 2004

the day after the clutch disaster. Time to strip the beast

offside shaft out

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20DS_2001.webp

strut out, why? I don't know...

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20strut.webp

me underneath the car, note new front discs

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20strip.webp

bits

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20bits.webp

box selector cover and the bellhousing cover

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20box_20protection.webp

speedo cable pulled out of the box

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20speedo.webp

removed the alarm siren as well, you can see the 2 holes where it was screwed in

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20alarm_20removed.webp

nearside driveshaft pulled

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20ns_20ds_20removed.webp

the front engine mount was broken

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20broken_20front_20mount.webp

box out old clutch on flywheel

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20clutch_20box_2001.webp

box

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20clutch_20box_2002.webp

clutch removed

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20clutch_20box_2003.webp

box again

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20clutch_20box_2004.webp

I had noticed the brake pipe was flaking, removed the loose paint

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20brake_20pipe_2001.webp

cleaned it up

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20brake_20pipe_2002.webp

and Amber had some nail polish that was an exact match

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20brake_20pipe_2003.webp

The new clutch

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20clutch_2001.webp

fitting the clutch

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20clutch_2002.webp

ta-da!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20clutch_2003.webp

new release bearing on the fork

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20clutch_2004.webp

poor pic but its of the starter heatshield on the C-type engine, solid metal

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20starter_20heatshiled_2001.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20starter_20heatshield_2002.webp

the old clutch

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20old_20clutch_2001.webp

hard to see but in the spindle there was a groove worn in it!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20old_20clutch_2002.webp

you can see its not healthy

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20old_20clutch_2003.webp

loads of life in the friction material

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20old_20clutch_2004.webp

cover was worn as the old bearing had seized, not done many miles but was in the car for a while

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20old_20clutch_2005.webp

Car drove fine after the clutch was replaced.

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So the car drove once again. However the alt light wouldn't go out.

Alternator wasn't putting out enough voltage, so alt off

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20alt_2001.webp

easy job to remove it

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20alt_2002.webp

back of the alt, rectifier bolts removed

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20alt_2003.webp

cleaned the brushes up and 1 was jammed, freed it up and it sorted it out

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20alt_2004.webp

Back to the interior. The rear lap belt was still the original grey one, not to good

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20lap_20belt_2001.webp

black one fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20lap_20belt_2002.webp

grey non 16V parcel shelf support

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20shelf_20support_2001.webp

black 16V one

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20shelf_20support_2002.webp

the boot seal was also damaged as the pic shows, I replaced it, no pic of the new one though

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20old_20boot_20seal.webp

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When doing the clutch I noted that whoever had done it before had lost the front stud so I had to fit another

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20box_20stud_2001.webp

screwing in a new stud

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20box_20stud_2002.webp

stud fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20box_20stud_2003.webp

all sorted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20box_20stud_2004.webp

The lower pinch bolt on the nearside had also broken so another was needed

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pinch_20bolt_2001.webp

replacement bolt

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pinch_20bolt_2002.webp

where it goes

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pinch_20bolt_2003.webp

fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pinch_20bolt_2004.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pinch_20bolt_2005.webp

The car then sat for about 3 weeks so needed another battery stuck in

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_203_20door_20battery.webp

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It was now the new year, January 2005.

The wiring to the coil needed some repair and it gave me a chance to clean the bulkhead as well. So off it all came

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coil_2001.webp

loom where it was repaired and taped back up

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coil_2002.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coil_2003.webp

clean, its not orange in reality

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coil_2004.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20coil_2005.webp

As the car just sat for ages as it wasn't used the seat got some mould on it, lovely

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20mouldy_20seat.webp

the age old 2 dial display, rare to see these days

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20dash_20display.webp

As I said earlier I fitted a new rad fan switch, heres a pic to prove it worked

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_203dr_20fan_20working.webp

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Anyway time to spec up!

The car as it came the basic of basic only had 2 speakers, both in the top of the dash. better rectify that.

So off with the passenger side trim to fit a gen ren rear speaker loom

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pass_20loom_20spk_2001.webp

As the interior was out I thought I'd pop out the window to clean it up

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20window_20removal_2001.webp

window seal which was cleaned up to as new condition

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20window_20removal_2002.webp

Door seal removed as well

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pass_20sill_20clean_2001.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pass_20sill_20clean_2002.webp

after good clean

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pass_20sill_20clean_2003.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20window_20removal_2003.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20window_20removal_2004.webp

window refitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20window_20removal_2005.webp

door frame cleaned

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pass_20sill_20clean_2004.webp

shiny

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20pass_20sill_20clean_2005.webp

Drivers sill was still to be done, quite a contrast though.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20dri_20sill_20clean_2001.webp

I then set about the drivers side loom, first out with the rear light

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20light_20clean_2001.webp

not good enough, better clean it up

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20light_20clean_2002.webp

this poor pic actually shows the car no having a boot light

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20boot_20light.webp

the drivers side loom is quite involved as it does the rear lights, fuel tank sender handbrake light etc etc

this is where I left it that night, still had to fit the loom to the tank

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20drivers_20loom_2001.webp

this is the tank wiring, it leads from the hole in the boot floor to a hole under the rear seat the tanks also right against the floor so its very tight.

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got it all fitted and heres the old basic loom out

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I cleaned out the mud from the arch liner, there is a tech guide on this

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The dash for the previous owner played up a lot, also one of the fail items on the mot. It was fine with me then it started to play up. So time to remove it

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heater control panel removal

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Anyway old dash out and new one in, no pics of the actual change but you can see the dash is a much better one

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now with central vents

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glovebox light, high rollers now

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the dash needed a new aerial lead

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support for the rear of the radio

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fitted

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radio fitted

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rear speaker wires adapted to reach 6x9's that were lying around

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As you can see the front mount was dead

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new (old) mount to go on

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removing old mount

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new one on

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old mount

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the car was missing the selector cover

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no cover on

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cover fitted

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as the car hadn't driven under load the plugs were sooty so were cleaned up.

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timing mark highlighted so I could sort the timing

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could I find the timing light etc? nope so that was left to another day.

It needed a new balljoint as the other had a perished gaiter, no play as it was nearly seized solid!

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well done

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Then on to the oil change, who knew when the oil and filter was last changed

old filter

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yes the filter was rusty!

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new filter fitted

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Then it was ready for the MOT.

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1st Feb 2005

Took it for its MOT test

I was in the car, this is a pic out of the car from up on the ramp whilst the tester was underneath it

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out the other side

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So did it pass? No. Yes I was even more disgusted than you. It failed on the nearside steering rack gaiter, each time the wheel turned it split more!

I had a new rack out the back on the sky blue 1.4's subframe so I just took the gaiter from that

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the split gaiter

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old gaiter off

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rack was dry

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lubed up

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gaiter on

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Went back down at 2pm and the car passed its MOT.

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So that was the beast MOT'd. The car was still not being used as it wasn't needed.

So there was plenty time to sort things out on it.

The 16V door cards had door speaker holes, the car had no door speakers.

However I had clio RT door speakers kicking about so I used them.

passenger side finished

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drivers side

the hole

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speaker fitted, note pikey wire set up, it was only meant to be temporary

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I then turned to the engine to make it run better. Now I had not adjusted the timing as I never had a light, I should have just done it by ear/feel as I was going to, had to do it that way in the end to get it running perfect.

This was the points gap being adjusted

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the dwell/tacho meter.

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After I sorted out the timing the car was transformed, with the service, new plugs carb rebuild and timing adjustment it felt like there was another 20bhp available.

There was a funny noise after a test drive, a ping, I knew it would be a spring and I was right

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End of March 2005.

The car never came with the lower front arch liners, so I had to fit some.

First I had to remove what was left of the old liners securing srews, bits like these

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no liner note previous owners damage to bottom of the bumper

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the liner

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inner securing bolt

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fitted, much better!

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the other side

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before

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after

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20arch_20liner_2008.webp

I had already replaced the front mount but I got my hands on a better one

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20mounting_2001.webp

new one

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subframe, bit flaky but solid

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fitted, you can see despite it being a year or so old it was already cracking, still better than what was there.

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24th May 2005

Heater matrix hose pops

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not impressed. go to the boot and the hinge pins snap!

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not very impressed

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So after a 2 day wait I get the pins from renault

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had to punch out the remains of the broken pin

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new pin fitted

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the tailgate struts ball joints, I lubed em up to prevent squeaks

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20tailgate_2009.webp

back on

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To finish the job I fitted a retro sticker

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Then it was on to fixing the heater hose, B&Q for some copper parts

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on the car

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Sorted.

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13th June 2005

The car was now being pressed into daily service as the Orion had sold.

New wheel bearing on the nearside

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the wishbone bushes had some play in them and the balljoint had suffered badly for some reason

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much better, note no ARB, it was never fitted to this model!

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The car was then taken on a shake down run, covered nearly 400 miles in 1 day, went from Glasgow to Fort William, this pic was taken near Ben Nevis

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Then over to Inverness and back via the Trossachs

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Car behaved impeccably and was then pushed into daily service.

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27 July 2005

The drivers seat was missing the trim on the outer edge. The subframe was also iffy, it had been welded before at some point as well

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broken subframe

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trim on, still missing 1 bit though

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20drivers_20seat_20base_2004.webp

Need to get a new subframe on there...

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19th August 2005

The car over the last week or so had started to randomly cut out and be difficult to start.

I poked about and it was the points and condenser, so new ones were bought

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old points and condenser

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you can see the wire was corroded

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The fuel tank also started to leak if it was at half full.

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old tank off

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replacement tank from my 206k energy car

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So that was the running sorted again and the fuel leak stopped, however this isn't that last we shall hear about fuel tank leaks...

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The standard 16V radio had been fitted for a while and my mum was using the car and she liked the stereo remote so it was fitted

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differences between the remote and non remote stalk holder

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remote

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all back together

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Time to fit the central locking

loom and locking mechanism

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the pikey wire and standard blanking plug grommets

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crude but it worked fine

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door loom fitted

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central locking mech and standard one on the right

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central locking button fitted to dash

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loom and clips in the door

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dodgy rotten clio speaker

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drivers door done

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The car had been broken into at some point, there was glass in it when I changed the carpet and this convincing bulge on the window seal led the detective team to the fact thsi is where it happened.

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corroded seal

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the bulge

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this was all cleaned up

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dent sorted

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new seal fitted

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all back on

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I then fitted the boot loom and the locking motor

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the central locking relay

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Then it was time to convert the mirrors to electric ones.

manual part removed

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loom fitted

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mirror platform fitted

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all done

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I also had a passenger side window regulator, so this was fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20leccy_20window_2001.webp

The cable was broken, so I used the manual windows cable on the leccy one

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fitted to the door

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16V speaker door pocket fitted

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1st November 2005

Fuel tank sprang a new leak, it was sorted with re-positioning the hose and tightening it up

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The rear dampers were original and probably done, I had 16V ones to go on so fitted them

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20rear_20dampers_2001.webp

not to healthy

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the top mount

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16V top and 1.4 old one bottom

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16V damper fitted

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drivers side put up a fight

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had to get stuck in

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dirvers side old and new ones

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Popped the cover on the torsion bar to see how bad the were, not to bad, another case of we shall see more of this later!

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drivers side

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Car as expected handled better with the 16V rear shocks.

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21st November 2005

The car never had a rev counter, in fact it never had any gauges apart from fuel and speedo. I swapped the display as you say earlier which allowed it to show engine temp, well after I put a new bit of loom on the engine it did. Time for a tacho though!

new one at the back

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the wiring plugs

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After I put in a bit of wiring to the coil the tacho worked

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idle, a wee bit low

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the black wire leaving the coil went to the brown dash loom plug

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The carb and breather was missing this T piece for a while, eventually got one from renault

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how it was running

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new T piece fitted

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I also got a drivers side leccy window reg from Wicked Neo

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20drivers_20side_20leccy_20window_2001.webp

time to fit it

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window reg fitted

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all fitted

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need to fit the glass

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Also the heater matrix decided to leak so had to get a new one

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14th December 2005

Time to do the matrix. So the dash came off again!

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the heater box removed

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the bonnet release handle was broken when I had the trim off before so I changed it

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filled an alarm cable hole with silicone

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new matrix hose stubs

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So the matrix was sorted, as was the bonnet cable and all was well.

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For some reason the car must have been perfect from December to the end of March 2006

30th March 2006

I got colour coded red wing mirrors with the Black Executive, so I fitted these, really smartened up the outside

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_project_20y_20colour_20coded_20mirrors.webp

The car then took a trip down south to help out Doc

The trip finished off the backbox!

It was very loud coming home with it. Also the trip had removed some of the black pinstripe on the car, so it was removed fully on both sides.

This is with the stripe

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stripe off

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Whilst in England - somewhere we got an exhaust repair, it never lasted

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gone at the backbox as well

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big hole, the support bracket used to be here

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after a wire brushing at the backbox

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so I chopped a bit of metal from an old cat heatshield up

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tried to clean the pipe up without making more holes

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patch welded on, lol

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terrible, but it done the job

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slap a load of paste on just to be sure

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So the exhaust was fitted and working again. But not for long.

2 weeks later and about 400 miles on the exhaust broke, so it was papped in the boot

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20boot_20spares.webp

short vid of how it sounded with no backbox

right click save as 2.6mb

http://www.renault-turbo.com/chris/red 3 door/red 3 door no back box.MOV

The 1.2 Clio was sorted out so that was pressed into service and this car was left to be sorted by me.

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A few ideas were in the works, I first planned to turbo the 1.4 engine as it was basically a GTT engine.

Then something happened so I bought a new backbox and stuck it on along with a spare wheel carrier.

9/6/06

note cable ties, these were replaced with the rubbers a day later when they came in.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20exh_20and_20wheel_20carrier.webp

Then things changed again and I was back to turbo idea. I then obtained an RSI engine in exchange for some work I done.

In the end I took neither of these routes.

I will do another report on the turbo and RSI adventures.

11th July 2006

The exec has just been stropped and the two people that wanted the engine pulled out for different reasons (pyscho ex and money) so I was left with a 16V engine.

The RSI engine had its loom repaired by me, but to make it fit in the 19 as I wanted it I needed to buy stuff, that was going to blow my budget of zero right out the water.

So I sorted out the problems the exec engine had

The oil leak from the top end was caused by someone before using the wrong size cam seal!

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sealant used to try and bridge the gap

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oil pump pulley removed

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crank pulley

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tensioner and idler

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I bet it took longer to put this sealant on that ordering the right bits.

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seals and sealant out

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old seals.

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clean the hole

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fit the right seal, job done!

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Put that back together after it was cleaned, much cleaner!

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The dodgy wire I fitted to the exec for the oil light had done its job but it was time to fix properly

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_exec_20engine_20damaged_20wiring_2001.webp

so new wire was let in to all the damaged areas.

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27th July 2006

So it was time to prepare the car for the conversion.

I first popped the 16V backbox on just to see what it looked like, great is the answer, I love it, 80's chrome dustbin look!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2016V_20backbox_2001.webp

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I pulled the front bumper off as well to free up the subframe bolts, they got a good soak in penetrating fluid

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20bumper_20off.webp

I swapped the black 16V belts and the exec door cards over into the car

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20belts.webp

I had to sort out the wiring as the carbed engine never had a fuel pump feed to the back etc.

I had a 16V rear loom, could I find where I put it? No, I did of course find it the day after! Typical.

So I had to make it, using this old dash loom I got the best and thickest wires to do my fuel pump wiring

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20efi_20wiring_2001.webp

The fuel pump plug just happened to be the same size as the ph1 dash looms sidelight dim dip resistors. It also had nice thick wiring on it as well, so was good enough for the pump.

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the white wire is the starter solenoid feed wire from the dash (thick) the black wire is the main dash earth wire.

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the wire fitted into the standard plug as standard

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run in the clips

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wire runs through the channel then to the tank wires grommet, the earth runs to the rear panel earth as standard.

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It needed the EFI tank so it could have the fuel pump, again from the black exec

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fuel pump sock, cleaner than expected

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hard to see in this pic, but pinhole leaks, no option have to use it

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16V efi fuel lines and charcoal canister

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my fuel pump power feed wire on the right

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Tank was fitted as well the lines etc.

Had to leave the car and fix others for a few days.

3rd August 2006

Time to get cracking.

Steering column pinch bolt needed removed

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manual rack column removed

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the front subframe was removed from the exec. Why? Well the subframe is stronger than the 1.4's. it was in better condition, it also had everything bolted to it, the 16V wishbones are longer giving the 16V's a wider track

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_16V_20subframe_20removed.webp

I then had to drop the red cars subframe and engine etc out

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www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20subframe_20dropped_2002.webp

the pikey way I had to use to get the car up high enough so I could pull the frame and engine out - all by myself no less!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20subframe_20dropped_2003.webp

the manual and power steering columns side by side, the manual one if the lower longer one

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_manual_20and_20power_20steering_20column.webp

this is the clutch cable where it goes into the bulkhead to the pedal, as you can see the grommet was split, so I stuck another cable in

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a pic looking up from inside the bay

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the column gaiter fitted to the bulkhead

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20column_20gaiter_20fitted.webp

the rear subframe mounting point, I cleaned this up

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20rear_20subframe_20mount.webp

the cleaned as new efi fuel lines where they enter the engine bay

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20fuel_20lines_20end.webp

I needed to fit the fuel filter and bracket, I had a nice new filter for the job.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20efi_20fuel_20filter_2001.webp

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the proper bracket fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20efi_20fuel_20filter_2004.webp

the front subframe was mounted and it now had nice 16V brakes instead of its crappy original bendix calipers

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2016V_20brakes.webp

charcoal canister fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20charcoal_20canister_20fitted.webp

PS oil cooler etc fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2016V_20sub_20fitted.webp

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8th August 2006

The plan was to make the car acceptable to me, which meant making it factory, that involved moving the master cyl reservoir etc

this pic shows the servo vacuum pipe and plastic brackets, all 16V now, the 1.4 just had a rubber hose

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old reservoir removed and 16V pipe adaptors fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2016V_20master_2002.webp

all sorted, apart from the reservoirs bracket.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2016V_20master_2003.webp

The air inlet was originally on the nearside inner wing

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20ai_2001.webp

for the 16V I only had the ph2 rad surround so that meant slam panel air inlet instead of the ph1's rad surround air inlet, I also had to fit the captive screw things

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screwed in, just need to wait for the airhose and airbox

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I then bolted all the stuff up to make sure it would all go, looking good

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20bay_20pre_20engine_20install.webp

the nearside calliper got a new hose as well

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20ns_2016V_20caliper.webp

The next day was the planned engine install day

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9th August 2006 (next day)

right click save as 2.7meg (bit tappy as it hadn't been run in well over a month)

http://www.renault-turbo.com/chris/red 3 door/red 16V running 01.MOV

right click save as 1.4 meg

http://www.renault-turbo.com/chris/red 3 door/red 16V running 02.MOV

engine bay pics

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www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2016V_20engine_20fitted_2002.webp

no airbox on yet

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10th August 2006

So I had a small problem

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It had newish mounts, new clutch, new points, ran sweet, had everything, good engine only done 90k! tried to sell it, then tried to give it away. Eventually I just fitted it to the exec!

Anyway airbox fitted to the car

right click save as 2.7meg

http://www.renault-turbo.com/chris/red 3 door/red 16V running airbox.MOV

The engine bay with the airbox. The airbox wasn't easy to fit, due to the fact the 16V headlights are different the box and bracket actually touch the headlight! It fits but its tight!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_2016V_20engine_20bay_20complete.webp

I had to sort out the brake reservoir bracket. I wanted the stock look and thats what I got. I drilled holes in the bulkhead and put bolts in from the back, totally standard to look at.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20brake_20res_2001.webp

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And heres what it looked like

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20sleeper.webp

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11th August 2006

Some more pics of it, just to prove I really did do it!

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The clio had been sold so it was now and still is my mums primary mode of transport.

19th August 2006

The car decided it would make its aux water pump work, wouldn't go off though, took the relay out and this is why

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20aux_20water_20pump_20relay.webp

cleaned it up seemed to work for a bit and has now gone back to not working. Oh well.

My mum bought a buffing machine, so I decided to try it out as the car is quite faded, right half buffed left not

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20buff_2001.webp

buffed part

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non buffed half!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20buff_2003.webp

i finished the bonnet off and got bored, so left it! lol

I then fitted the ph1 wheels with Toyo's from my chamade to the car, much better than the ph2's that were on it.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20ph1_20toyos_20fitted.webp

I also got my NEW front drivers seat subframe so fitted that

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_Y_20new_20seat_20subframe_2001.webp

lovely! I have to thank Doc for getting me it, I forgot about it on ebay, but he got it for me, top man!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_Y_20new_20seat_20subframe_2002.webp

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20th August 2006

My mum put a tenner in the tank and this happened

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20efi_20tank_20leak_2001.webp

the leak had got a lot worse

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20efi_20tank_20leak_2002.webp

So we all went out in the car for a nice wee run to Loch Lubnaig and the surrounding area, car behaved perfectly of course

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20loch_20lubnaig.webp

need to get a tank though.

24th August 2006

I lowered the back end a tad to get it sitting better.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20lowered_2001.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20lowered_2002.webp

theres more pics and a vid in the lowering tech article.

The only problem with the car was I used a straight through midsection and it rubbed slightly and was very annoying, I also had a normal mid section so I put that on instead and the heatshields

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20underside_20mid_20and_20heatshield.webp

I also added chemical metal to the tank, it helped a lot. It considerably cut down the smell of petrol

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20tank_20chemical_20metal.webp

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19th September 2006

I done a compression test on the engine

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20comp_20test.webp

perfect across the engine. Well happy, I knew it was a good 16V lump, only slight problem is its slightly tappety if left for a few days.

Another engine bay shot, cos I like it

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20engine_20bay_2019_20__2009.webp

I also got around finally to fitting the leather, exec leather, lovely

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20leather_2001.webp

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www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20leather_2003.webp

Bling! Pure pimping gangsta.

26th September 2006

I bought 4 new tyres to fit to the car as I wanted my toyos back on the chammy and 1 of the toyos keeps going down due to a rim leak. Last thing I wanted was my mum driving ona flat tyre and ruining the tyre or worse yet smashing the car!

Top Performer, from mytyres.net, £100 for the 4 delivered, bargain! I would have gone for the toyos but was skint.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_new_20tyres_20top_2001.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_new_20tyres_20top_2002.webp

My best condition alloys for the tyres

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_alloys_20for_20top_20tyres.webp

tyres fitted and on the car

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20tyres_20bling_20wheels.webp

Now that the tyres have been on and driven on they are slightly noisier than the Toyos but are very, very good for the money. The toyos are better but these are a lot better than I expected.

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9th October 2006

Finally the exec's dash was to be fitted.

Old dash out

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www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20dash_2002.webp

gotta love the leather

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20dash_2003.webp

ph2 door handles, speaker grilles and window switches now

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20dash_2004.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20dash_2005.webp

the dash in

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20dash_2006.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20dash_2007.webp

oil pressure gauge works now

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20dash_2008.webp

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20exec_20dash_2009.webp

Interiors great, darker than darth vaders helmet.

12th October 2006

I won a nice new shiny tank on Ebay, including delivery it was £52, bargain!

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20efi_20tank_2001.webp

sender and pump fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20efi_20tank_2002.webp

old tank

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20efi_20tank_2003.webp

some rust inside

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20efi_20tank_2004.webp

holes

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20efi_20tank_2005.webp

new tank fitted

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20efi_20tank_2006.webp

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Car had been working perfectly up until last week, it had been tricky to start apparently then on Friday about 2 mins before I had to leave for the airport to go to Ireland it refused to start.

I came home last night and checked it today.

CTS had failed resulting in no fuel being injected, stuck another CTS on it and all seems well now.

20th January 2007

I finally bought and fitted a new CTS to replace the used one I had fitted as a temp measure back in December.

Idling after start up is more stable as its no longer saying its warm causing the lambda to be read and at the other end of the scale when in heavy traffic the car no longer has an occasional stutter.

The car also passed its MOT with flying colours last weekend (13th January), emissions were a pleasing 0% CO, HC 35ppm and Lambda 1.01. An exceptional figure you'll agree.

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April 2007

Chet sent me a non sunroof plip console, turns out it uses another headlining, anyway its a gap about a 5th of the size of the sunroof consoles, good enough really.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_Project_20Y_20new_20roof_20console.webp

Cars fine apart from the air inlet temp sender, currently its unplugged (defaults to 25deg) and its running much better, got another sensor on its way.

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Wednesday 2nd May 2007

Well my mum killed the engine.

170 mile journey with frequent bursts of fierce acceleration and sustained high load driving (illegal speeds) and the AIT sensor being disconnected (defaults to 25 degrees) whilst the actual air temp was about half that lead to it running lean and basically it melted.

So that was a fun 170 miles tow home by my sisters laguna.

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Sunday 20th May 2007

Dougal (u33db) was down and brought me some goodies, like a new steering wheel for the red car.

The wheel on it was 16V but the leather grips were gone as I removed them as they were hanging off. So it looked like this

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20steering_20wheel_2001.webp

and now this one has mint leather grips, although the paints peeling, will sort that later

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20new_20steering_20wheel_2002.webp

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Monday the 21st May 2007

I decided to start the strip down to remove the engine tonight. All thats left is nearside shaft, mountings, ps pump and the gear link rod. So the lump will be pulled out tomorrow.

I removed the downpipe and cat, I was expecting some evidence of the lean running and I got some!

Heres the best pics of the downpipe to manifold flange

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20lean_20pipe_2001.webp

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www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20lean_20pipe_2005.webp

As you can see its ran very lean as we all knew.

That should all be black and sooty in a normally running car, as you can see its white and pretty much all carbon has gone due to the lean and very hot exhaust gasses. The back part of the cat is also now spotless :lol:

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Tuesday 22nd May 2007 A.D. and T-minus 2 days till my birthday :lol:

Today I whipped out the engine, nothing exciting but got some pics anyway.

Look at how high its sitting with no engine in it, also pretty clean for not being washed in about 2 months, the other side has been attacked badly by bird crap though, note sexy ph1 alloys.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20engine_20out_20again_2001.webp

I can't put my finger on it but theres something missing in there...

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20engine_20out_20again_2002.webp

Engine bay needs a good clean

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20engine_20out_20again_2003.webp

Old destroyed shaft yields its cv joint so I can move the car without worrying about the bearing breaking up. The wishbones only been on about 2 months and the discs not looking to healthy either.

www.renault_turbo.com_chris_red_203_20door_red_20car_20engine_20out_20again_2004.webp

Anyway hopefully next week it will be running again, as hopefully this Saturday I will be getting my engine

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26th May 2007

My mum, Steve101 and myself hire a van and head down to Catterick.

It seems an 03 plate semi hi cab transits upper limit is 105mph.

We got there mid afternoon and it was time to extract the engine. Andrew had drained the fluids aside from the coolant and done the exhaust etc.

So we just had to lift it out and disconnect the shafts etc.

Andrew in action doing the nearside shaft

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me looking for the meaning of life in the engine bay

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its a classy car...

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me doing a camp hand movement, note facial hair, a sign of manhood

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Wee Steve about to stomp that ground

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Andrew thinking wtf do I do now? :lol:

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this point I was talking Andrew into going under to undo the mount bolts

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me holding the spanner form the top

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Engine then came out, went for food and headed home.

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28th May 2007

Righty today was the day that I started to sort out the engine ready to be swapped into the car.

For those that don't know this engine used to be mine until I sold it to Doc a few years back, it was in an old ph1 hatch I had, good engine when I sold it, needed a bit of TLC when I got it back though!

As you can see it was a bit rough now!

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the lifting eye snapped off

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I sold this engine to Andrew with that filter on it, its at its youngest 5 years old!

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Everything stripped off in readiness for a blasting clean

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Water pump was fecked so off it came

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yep, every core plug was holed, you can also make out the cracked box casing where the rear mount bolts to

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holed core plug

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after a quick rinse

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clutch off

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much cleaner

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other water pump fitted, not new but as new

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this is the box out of the red car, the ph2 box, that little chap is the release fork pivot bush. You can't see it easily here but its almost worn right through, the box that was in Doc's car the bush WAS worn right through. Oil in there was from a rocker gasket leak where it had run down the side of the head in the bellhousing

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new bush

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I also managed top get a big and I mean BIG oil filter. As you all know they used to have big filters (80mm) then they reduced them all to the 50mm ones, this bad boys a 100mm job!

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I then decided I want the engine back in. I knew I could try to pikey it. I knocked the plugs out of both engines, the shiny ones are from the exec engine and the rotten ones are off this new (yet my old lol) engine

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This is the nearside core plug hole on the exec engine. Yes thats a load of rusty shite, that was in the radiator until the high speed running shifted it to the lowest flow area, i.e. the rear of the coolant jacket

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this is the worst bit on the new engine, all flushed out now of course

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Anyway I knew they'd leak, I said to myself and anyone within ear shot they'll fecking leak. I tried as best I could and stretched them back out and smeared sealant on them.

Slapped the lump back in as I really didn't want it out overnight again as the weathers bad. Put it in connected it all back up and started it, first time it fired up and ran nicely, the oil pressure built quick and the tappets went quiet in a few seconds. The gauge doesn't work though (its the sender). Anyway I chucked water in and sure enough a little dribble, so I revved it and they popped. I knew it'd happen so wasn't to bothered about it really.

The new core plugs will arrive tomorrow at renault so will fit them at some point. I can safely say due to dicking about I will not be getting 5 months tax back on the chammy!

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31st May 2007

This morning I walked down here via Renault (nice 6/7 mile stroll) and collected the core plugs

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After the rain finally stopped it was time to get into action. I jacked the beast up to pull the offside shaft out, there lying on the subframe was one of the core plugs :lol:

So then instead of removing the engine I removed the shaft, starter, and exhaust manifold and downpipe.

I then had a clear view to do the job.

The plug on the left is new the one in the middle was just about to be replaced

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All 3 core plugs fitted and the oil pressure sender swapped over from the ph2 lump.

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Everything seems to be sorted now. We went out for a drive down the motorway, everything is solid and smooth etc. Oil pressure is right up there, new engine stuff, the joy of the big oil filter.

I took a short vid showing the great pressure, this was after about 45 mins of running

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2008

Well the car is still perfect and needs to be MOT'd so will get that done asap.

Took a pic of the beast the other day which turned out well, here it is in its unreduced glory.

Note ding on wing from window cleaner - prick and same on my chammy rear 1/4!

Looks good for not being washed in about 6 months!

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23rd February 2008

Passed the MOT today. Got two advisories on it,

Handbrake effort 26% needs to be 25% to pass
offside front brake low effort (but passed)

I knew the handbrake was an issue as it was fine then about a month ago it came right up as the adjuster wound itself off, so easy fix.

The front calliper will get worked back and forth as its just sticky, then again thats what happens when cars sit around un-used.

Anyway apart from that it sailed through of course. Its still down at the work as I want to bend the exhaust as the ph2 bumpers exhaust outlet is slightly over and as such the ph2 exhaust isn't in the middle of the ph1's cut out, so will sort that and clean the underside and polish it.

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Well as of the 9th of May the car has gone to a new home.

The car was sold to Chet for a fair price. So its now registered in Ireland and Chets using it.

I trust he'll look after it and will have many years of faithful service from it.
 
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hehe everyone loves that compound that you mix together to stop the leaking petrol tank!
 
it was only temp for the chemical metal as a new tank was always needed.

The shiny new tank thats on will last another 15 years I hope.

Its about 5 or so months into that 15 years now :lol:
 
is it faster than a normal valver with it having slightly less weight?
 
^ I hate my sunroof man. I don't even use it! I want rid hahaha. I'm sure my car'd sound much quieter too without it.
 
Chris can i make a small suggestion mate, every time i look at this car i think 'back to black'! Get a bit of that action going on on those bumpers. Aprectiate you have more pressing matters at hand at the moment though!
 
what like actually washing the thing? :lol: It needs polished badly, theres bits that are whitish due to fading, I keep meaning to sort it though

But I like the slight rat look it has.
 
LOL! Yeah that would be the first step i guess!:lol:

Seriously though, bit of back to black will bring those bumpers out a treat i reckon mate.
 
Excellent work!!!! You really know a lot about Renault 19's. I love your reports, very educational. I have a 1.4energy carb. (E6J) any good tips for it???
 
the 1.4 energy is a great engine. My old one used to rev to over 8krpm and had over 200k mile son the clock. The valve gear on them suffer wear badly if they don't have frequent oil changes so make sure you keep on top of servicing.

Any more questions ask in one of the forums or even pm me.
 
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