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21 Turbo The Scrapyard Quadra

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They bite well! Snapped this off in the vice with the open end.

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Other than that, same old same old. Make a hole, fill it back in again. Turret wasn't holed but looked ropey on the underside. Have a spare turret so decided to chop it out.

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Now has half a VIN around the back of the turret, but thats OK as my original VIN has rusted off the front of the turret anyway hahaha!

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Thats all for this week, I took it easy and shortened my hours outside as I have the dreaded 'rona!
 
Love this project. Its a great read and the fab work is looking great. Keep at it.
It's not at the sort of level I would expect to pay for, but i'm too poor to pay for it anyway so it'll have to do haha.

I'm slowly running out of rot to deal with. I think the only perforating rust left to fix is the rear arches, which I do have some replacements for but have been holding off to try and get my used cut-outs copied for a community group buy. Been talking to @Mark_L about it. I'd rather have new metal for mine also. The local fab place that was doing the sills and stuff for me have gone bust over the COVID lockdown :(
 
What an epic story!!
While it is all apart is there any chance of tying the front turrets to the cage, would be a worthwhile mod if it can be accomplished, if it is on your to-do list then I apologise.
Did think about it, discussed it, also stand points in the sills, and welding up the back doors. Oh and air jacks too - but decided against. Primarily cost, also time and effort. I can always do stuff like this in coming years anyway when budget frees up or maybe when I retire haha.

I want it back on the road this decade basically, and while I don't want to shortcut stuff, delaying it by years with frivilous spending makes no sense. I also have a Clio V6 to run, a Meglio, and the daily Volvo so I have to be reasonable.
 
You can never do everything. It is unwise to try, coz you just end up Fed up. I now have a lot more time, but being older means you just are not quite the guy you were. The good news in my case is that my son, who was the principal reason I shelved all the car stuff in the first place to help him with his interests, is now able to help me, which is the extra little bit of help I need these days. Cost is something I struggle to reconcile due to age. I remember how cheap everything was, but do the inevitable backwards cost comparisons you should never do, because the world don't work that way!!
Carry on
 
I didnt get much done this weekend on the 21 after a bit of a disaster with the 9 engine, but I did decide to kill the last hour saturday looking at how the sideskirts will fit up - I will need to fabricate/make the stuff to hold them in place before paint.

Did a bit of trimming on the skirt top, to slot it over the sill and sized it up.

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Added the wing & bonnet for a look see. Yummy. Wish i'd hung the door on too now!

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@DaveL485 . Please excuse my ignorance. The R21's that raced were they a closed formula or were they a European touring car series ? Were they production based or were they really specials that had the same silhouette and were very different under the skin
My recollections of the roadcars were that Ford had the 2wd sierra's followed by the 4wd and that Renault did more or less the same thing with the 21, although the Renault product would be much harder wearing than the Ford and would have been the thinking man's Performance Saloon of that era.
 
@DaveL485 . Please excuse my ignorance. The R21's that raced were they a closed formula or were they a European touring car series ? Were they production based or were they really specials that had the same silhouette and were very different under the skin
My recollections of the roadcars were that Ford had the 2wd sierra's followed by the 4wd and that Renault did more or less the same thing with the 21, although the Renault product would be much harder wearing than the Ford and would have been the thinking man's Performance Saloon of that era.
Both. The Europa Cup R21's had 300hp and were a R21 shell with a cage, basically. There were mods to wheel arches, and they ran cool centre-lock hubs but in general they were a modified road car. They were in a single make series, even supporting F1 back in the late 80's. You could buy the whole "build your own Europa cup car" kit from Renault. We think there were quite a lot of these made, sixty-plus by some accounts.

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The Superproduction R21's were in-house built by Renault, also known as the Blockbuster or Supertourisme. These were spaceframed at the front, the first iteration had the engine flipped around transverse and the second was back to longitudinal. They were 440-hp monsters with a steel crank, and a 310° cam, idling around 2000rpm...4wd with three diffs underneath. They raced in the superproduction series and won a championship as well. There were only four of these, 2 for each year of racing.


This one has made it into private hands and has been recomissioned.



Jackie Stewart review, 7min onward



Really good FB group run by Lyndon here, Lyn is the OG and founder of the 21TOC back in the day and is trying to piece together a register of Europa cup cars...this page is full to the brim of the very rich and diverse motorsport heritage of the 21.

 
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Big juicy xmas-2-weeks-off update! THE ROOF IS BACK ON. Woot!

Again thanks to @Mark_L for coming up and lending some professional expertise for the major operation, and the proper spot welder! I was distracted by kids, work, and police for the first hour or so and before I knew it the bloody thing was on!

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We opted for plugs along the side for (various and boring reasons).

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It was then spotted on the leading and trailing edges/ @Chris74# this is a proper spot welder. It actually tripped my garage breakers when we first fired it up lol!!

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These are all the pics I got as it was busy busy - the skin is also bonded around the inner edges (if you scroll back you will see me raging about cutting it out when I removed the old skin). So - it's done! Mark wanted to braze the corners as per OE too, but my brazing kit ran out of oxygen so I said I would pick that up later on. Brilliant job though, thanks Mark!

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