Renault 11 Turbo Phase 2 Restoration

[Neal R19]

When you come to flaring, if you haven't got a decent tool already, do yourself a favour and buy yourself one of the 'powerhand' type flaring tools. Don't waste your time with the real cheap split bar type crappy things.

I bought one of these for doing all the pipes on my turboshed 19, should have bought one years ago!

 

[Duncan Grier]

@Big Steve - Raider I have one you can use if not just need to double check sizes as I got it for the vx220 brake lines. Great tool

 

[Big Steve - Raider]

Brake lines are coming along quite well now, found the best way to replicate them was to bend the copper pipe and keep cable tying it to the original steel line as you work along the length. That way you can see what direction the next bend needs to go. This picture shows the two pipes just after I cut all the cable ties to separate them...


I cant stand Kunifer replacement brake pipes being left as they are, that copper colour just offends my OE eyes compared the the original Green steel pipes... so I thought id have a go at:



Absolutley DELIGHTED with how they came out!!!




Lets see how they look after they've fully dried..

Thanks for reading

 

[Turbell]

Spraying brake pipes green........
Fantastic.

 

[Chris Smith]

Good efforts Steve, I love the attention to detail

 

[Red21]

And keeping the grass green at the same time, win win situation.

 

[DaveL485]

Super nerd-tastic.

I'd have used green heatshrink personally because paint will flake when you bend the copper tube when fitting it. Skimlinked of course...

 

[Big Steve - Raider]

Super nerd-tastic.

I'd have used green heatshrink personally because paint will flake when you bend the copper tube when fitting it. Skimlinked of course...

I bought green heat shrink and tried it... didn’t work on the internal bends because it “rucked” up...

 

[gtmatt]

keep up the good work steve

 

[Duncan Grier]

@Big Steve - Raider

Update please sir, I am getting withdrawal symptoms

 

[Big Steve - Raider]

@Big Steve - Raider

Update please sir, I am getting withdrawal symptoms

Good evening Sir!! @Duncan Grier

Sorry things have been a bit lax on the old 11 recently, I’ve actually reached a point now where I’m waiting for the shell to come back from the painters as I’ve finished most of the bloody jobs I had to do already....!?

I was thinking at the weekend how long it’s been since I dropped the 11 off at the latest boat shop... anyone care to have a guess??

Well thanks to the wonders of Google, I can tell you that I dropped it off

• 454 days ago
• Or 1 year, 2 months, 28 days ago
• Or 14 months, 28 days ago!!!

Holy I didn’t realise it’s been that long there!!!

Moral of the story guys... don’t let anyone tell you a restoration is a fast process!!!

 

[Duncan Grier]

Damn! Not sure what is worst.....how long it has been there or how quick that time has passed

Be worth all the pain in the end mighty Steve

 

[DaveL485]

I came here expecting an update. Much disappoint!

 

[Red21]

You might need some new stickers soon so check this site
Page d'accueil "repro-vignette-auto"

 

[Haz]

Looking good and you seem to be making steady progress, the last time I caught up you were getting things powdercoated!
I'm really into the the little touches with this one - seatbelts, steering wheel to name a few.
Nice to see your at the final stages with the paintwork too, onto the best bit of a resto, bolting on the shiney bits!

 

[Big Steve - Raider]

18th December 2018 Happy bloody Christmas to me today... the 11 Turbo is only in Primer!!

 

[Duncan Grier]

Chance of painted before Christmas?

 

[Turbell]

All inside in paint, so can't be long now.

It'll make my tail go fizzy when it's finished!

 

[Big Steve - Raider]

@Duncan Grier yes every chance apparently (problem is, winter is an ass sucking time to get a car transported across the country, and bloody cold to work on)

@Turbell yes the inside and underneath is already painted so it’s only the outside to do now..

Not sure if any of you also saw this, but Renault Classic are also in the progress of restoring a Silver Ph2 R11 Turbo! There’s has a sunroof tho

 

[DaveL485]

Progress! Hurrah!