Recent content by Brigsy

George/RTR was great, its a shame he stopped trading.

Small update. Rear solid snr discs and ds2500 rear pads in stock ready to fit. Awaiting the front brembo hc solids to arrive in the next couple of days and will change brakes all round. Ordered a set of brembo hc front discs from Autodoc after croft and they sent out a set of mitsubishi discs...

Small update. 250 used a couple of weeks ago in the decent weather. Had rs monitor on and noted charge temps not great with the forge intercooler, lingering around 30-40deg all the time, better than stock intercooler but roughly 10-20deg above ambient which is poor in my opinion. So plan is...

Update. Washed both dci's today, well overdue. Blue dci is on 199199 miles currently, soon be 200thou. Apart from that, nothing to report really just daily drivers doing reliable daily driving. Thanks for reading!!

100% strip down and rectify issues to sort this, no other option. Your next step needs to be an independent inspection by another specialist with a report. I would personally use diamond motors renault specialist ltd if your close to nottingham. I would decline any offer of trying an oil...

Thats normal/correct temp gauge position for these, every one ive driven lands in the same postion when fully up to temp. The cts rarely fails from experience, lower readings are due to weak thermostat. Longer crank when hot could be due to fuel system or tdc issues at a guess.

Rings are bedded in after 20 miles or so, oil consumption definitely wont get any better than it is, only worse.

Oil comsumption is far too high If its been rebuilt, especially if standard pistons. Needs a leakoff test doing to confirm, but id assume ring/bore issues.

Would be nice, pump out the front of the house :LOL: 25 years ago when spicey fuels were not so easy to find, my mate used to do homebrew high octane fuel. From memory it was shell optimax 97,avgas and something else in it which i forget. Was quite spicey and burned like alcohol, he reckoned it...

Fingers crossed! Be just my luck if there is a summer drought of 99 octane with all of the cars legal for the first time in years.

Only the expensive ones work, and to get 95 octane up to 99 etc your going to need a fair bit. For instance vp octanium is around £25 and id imagine you will need to use the full us quart per tank to see the required increase.

Cheers mate! I couldnt say no to the cover. One of the lads i know who ran loads of the Extra vans in the late 90s as a courier business, said hes never seen one so must be super rare. Id imagine most were ply lined instead as cheaper. Wonder whats going on with super unleaded at the moment...

Had koni yellows in a few cars over the years and pretty decent. I have a set of rear 182 koni yellows in the lockup off the trophy.

Updates. Extra van has been daily driver for last 3 days doing around 500 miles, with a 425mile journey to Birmingham on Sat. The reason for the trip to Birmingham was to collect an oem renault fitted plastic rear van liner for the Extra van. I had seen one of these 10+ years ago in...

Reuse the old one, should be fine. Run it up and check it doesnt leak