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5 GT Turbo Sleeper Renault 5 project

Just to note, SJM (Dan Potter) Renaultsport specialist in collaboration with Motorsport Electronics have developed a plug and play ECU for the 172/182 engine and loom, including FBW throttle control. I think it's a custom version of their ME221 ECU.

Might be worth a look. Will take a lot of work out of the wiring at least.
 
I mentioned this to the Adaptronic guys and the response was...

Adaptronic said:
In theory as long as the two ECUs are grounded properly so they are part of the same circuit then it should work. You will also need to use just one sensor ground from either ECU, otherwise we could have a ground loop problem.
You get traction, launch, ALS and all the other wonderful tricks to boot then as well. Imagine that, independant traction control on each pair of wheels! Launch sir? More like going back in time :D

plug and play ECU for the 172/182 engine and loom, including FBW throttle control.

Thats quite a tempting prospect!
 
Most impressive.

Ash, do you design the layout/structure (e.g. model it in CAD) before you cut metal or do you sort of design it as you go by taking a few key measurements, jigging existing components in relative position and then building up to/around/between them?

It looks like you do the latter?
 
Really sorry to hear about your friend :(

Subframe / wishbone setup looks very nice and solid!

DG
Thanks, its hard to get motivated when the car is rapped up. I uncovered it after free months and have started to plan the rest of the built.
At the moment both engines are fitted to the car. I am more than pleases with the way it looks, I wanted a real sleeper and a nothing car. I will add some pictures soon.
The only issue I'm having is to hide all the cooling and intercoolers. I even considered going for NA engines with NOS when needed ... Its a hard decision.
 
The only issue I'm having is to hide all the cooling and intercoolers. I even considered going for NA engines with NOS when needed ... Its a hard decision.

How about looking at water/meth injection?
New BMW M4 GTS uses it as does this aftermarket kit for supercharging AMV8s: Aston Martin V8 Vantage GMR Supercharged | PistonHeads

Or a water to air charge air cooler? Then "all" you have to find space for is a low temp radiator or two which will be smaller than a couple of air-to-air intercoolers.
 
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