Thought I would bring a few parts home from my "lockup garage" today to start & have a sort round which parts I will refurbish/use for the build. Was surprised when I put a few things in the boot of my car, it soon filled up! :ai: The car looked like it had some LOWZ on the way home with all the weight..:af:
Once I got home I arranged all the parts to compare what I had:

I've amassed a few parts from various different cars over the years, so the parts come from R5GTT/ R11 Turbo/ R19 16v/ Clio 172 and perhaps a few more inbetween..
I have 3 x Subframes I could use for this project, an 11T, a R5GTT and a 19 16v. I already got the R11T subframe zinc plated and powercoated so I'll be using that one as it's the straightest one. There didn't seem to be much difference with the 11T and 19 16v ones:
My hope is to try & widen the track of the front of the 11T (like I have done at the rear of the car by using an R19 16v Beam) by using a mix & match of other Renault parts. The Clio 172 Driveshafts measure 15mm longer than the R11T ones so perhaps I'm onto a winner with that..? To make sure I continued to compare all the parts I had:
- The R5GTT Wishbones are the smalles (Note they have the smallest hole in the centre)
- The R11 and Clio 172 Wishbones are ~15mm Longer
- The Clio 172 wishbones have a much fatter Bush on the back of them so I was thinking to use them.. but when I compared them to the R11T wishbones I found that they move the wheel further towards the front of the car by approx 15mm. (If you look at the picture above, you can see that the Clio 172 Wishbone is leaning more to the left than the others)
So the Clio 172 wishbones could not be used because it would make the wheel sit out of centre of the wheelarch. So I'll be using the R11T wishbones.
Next I started to look at the hubs, and remembered that my Clio 172 Hubs were dropped off at an Engineering shop in Peterborough around a year ago to get the shock mount thinned out.... Wonder if they're still their?? :ah:
So without them I carried on looking at the Hubs I had:
Very quickly I noticed that the R19 16V hubs have a larger wheel bearing compared to the R11/R5 ones:

Given the R5 Wheel bearings can be a little delecate at times, I figure a larger wheel bearing isn't a bad thing to have. I compared the other dimensions and they all look good:

As I will want to fit the OE 14" wheels to this car for concours shows, I'm pretty sure the Clio 172 Hubs would be too large to use, so I think I'm going to ditch that idea.
Last thing was to dismantle a pair of (what look like) new Renault Motrio dampers held within the R19 16V Shock legs I had. Figure they may come in handy for the future, So rescued them.
The R19 16V springs that were fitted to the shocks are WAAAAY too long to be used on the R11T, so the shocks are now surplus to requirements for me now. I will advertise them on the R19 board if anyone wants some??
Thanks for reading
