Just looked through all the thread nice work
Glad your not using the badboy bonnet although I like the louvers can't stand the angled bonnet exstentions lol
Just looked through all the thread nice work
Glad your not using the badboy bonnet although I like the louvers can't stand the angled bonnet exstentions lol
He's in the spray booth and omg its a big booth indeed
Seems like such a luxury to have so much room
Anyways pictures as always
One tall booth
Little shot of the stuff they have in for painting etc
They have a few redbull f1 racing units and even a few FIA trucks being worked on and a couple in the other booths
So after a lovely 530 wake up after my brother had attacked me with a torch in my eyes and slapping my head to wake me
We finished the masking then gave it a final look over and quick prep of some areas
Primered
Final coat
its not been flatted and polished yet so still a bit "factory finish" here and there but that'll all be done in a few weeks at home
8 o'clock start tomorrow morning reftting everything ready for the drive home where all the trims will get fitted on and cleaned etc
ive been quietly following this thread and really pleased to see the car getting paint now, good work mate be nice to see a rare minty fresh r5t.
Me tooLooking rather nice there. Can't wait to see it all back together. Hopefully the bacofoil (oops, I meant lovely Renault bodywork
) will last a good few years with all that prep and restoration work
Yet another quiet follower here
Paint looks tidy, coming along well
He's back home after a little trip round to see my cousins and they love it
Gave them a kick up the arse to get their tungsten one back on the road
Still a few trims to fit etc but the most has been done and we can have a rest for a week
BUT its not all good news! Like a true renault 5 it has a new problem.......
Its clutch has decided that with the newly rebuilt engine and all the new power plus a spirited drive home, the clutch didn't like it and started to slip on full throttle after 3k
So new clutch time yay....
Looking fantastic.
superb just went through the thread fantastic work looks great
Love this project, Fantastic work & it will look great when finished i bet
great colour! Loving your work. i have the same issue! dam clutch!
FANTASTIC work
Hope you dont mind, but I wanted to see a before and after shot together
ooooff, thats lovely
1998 Nissan 200sx s14a , 2000 std 5 speed with nismo supercoppermix clutch bn6 Sapphire Blue
thanks for the comments everyone
He is doing well. I have done 60miles+ and he hasn't broken down yet
Slight scrubbage when hitting the odd bump thats with 2 tyres and 2 people in the car. Making me regret these cheap 55 profile toyo t1rs now
Attempted to raise the back end tonight by starting on the side with no torsion bar grease cap on so thats nicely rusted solid
Going to need a big slide hammer to do this me thinks
Loving this, have followed from the start, great project
Gearbox is out with the engine in situ.
Its tight but not hard as i've not sworn at it yet this morning.
Big thanks to mike at gt turbo spares for the uprated clutch
Bonnet and bumper off. Covers on and an no zips on trousers rule set down we like the paint work unscratched
Gearbox removal
Found my persistant oil leak - rear main oil seal wrong way round
Found a possibly cause to my funny vibration at 50mph
Yup thats a hole in the diff and some pretty deep grooves,
The shaft bearings looks fine and theres no pieces floating in the other half of the diff...
On the hunt for a new one might try scrappys tomorrow
If no luck then i'll put it all back in and buy one from renault and do it in situ with the shaft out
So the list of things found wrong:
No roll pin in o/s driveshaft
Rear main oil seal fitted wrong way round causing my oil leak thats gone over the flywheel and clutch
Gearbox n/s diff section has a hole in it and deep grooves
The bro did some cleaning while i removed the gearbox
Now to de-grease and repaint the box silver casing and black end cover like it should be
Never been a fan of the r5 gt but blimey even I'd love that! Great work
Any spare turbo system bits give me a shout as I'm building a k10 carb turbo Micra, just got an r5 intercooler and a t3
ahh k10 turbo, i used to have 2 k10s one 1ltr and 1 1.2 super s, still got loads of spares kicking about, spare set of super s dials albeit with a crack in the clear plastic and maybe have the wiring looms not sure, front strut brace, erm loads more i think
Strut brace for a k10? I'd be very interested in that! I was going to cut up a k11 one to try get it to fitOriginally Posted by fordy
Yup its a proper k10 one took me fooking ages to find one, its been repaint in tesco blue by my brother and it just hanging up in my garage on the wall.
I'll grab some pictures of it tomorrow fella
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