Recent content by Optimista

Well now.. my knowledge and experience with engines is quite limited, so I called the guy who built this engine and he helped me alot! anyways, compared to my previous clio, where they looked like new at around 140k km on clock, these looked quite questionable, and then I removed the bearings...

And I almost painted that day, but it was windy and got a call that the gearbox was ready so I got to make a trip of ccy 340km to get the gearbox (it was Monday). Everything was prepared but not painted. Since track day was on Thursday, and nothing was painted on Tuesday, I decided that I would...

It continued as it started, optimistically and bravely, one might say optimistic.. 🤣 The gearbox was taken for repair, all the seals and the bushing on the selector and 2 bearings were replaced.. the 1st and 2nd speed fork was worn out and had no plastic on the ends of the "hand".. the pictures...

starter housing cleaned

C/P from Croatian renault forum; "Half the job done Removed the front bumper, subframe, gearbox.. The arch liners were mostly screwed on with self-tapping screws 🥲. They are not the original liners, some thin plastic that I have never seen before, but bent like an OEM liner.. strange Drained...

Renault sport spider web?

Small update but the one I've been waiting for ages! The car has been in this state for last 5 months cca.. Dont know about UK, but in europe we have a shop named 'intercars' and it has Polish roots, and basically you give them your old rear beam ( rear beams that have torsion bars...

my friend managed to find out, that phase 1 has 2 maps from factory over knock sensor the car identifies what fuel it has, and it has a map for 95 octane and 100 octane ( avaliable in Europe ), and accodingly to that it changes the map and power.

wow, so strange of an American to "dream" about this car :D Wish you best of luck! Wont be easy sourcing parts in US

No progress on the car, but hot a hold of factory rims with caps. They were so ugly to me before, but grew on me.. They are getting rare to get hold off, especially with caps.

Glad you liked it. I find it kinda special, although many say it isnt' "original" sport, because the chassis doesnt have it's number from the factory ( it came un numbered, and had to be stamped at technical inspection - the numbers dont match renault numbers, but are numbers matching to...

does any1 knows the cause to this? on my previous cable snapped 2 times. 1st one was oem, second ATE replacement, also when 2nd went it, new clutch was also installed. ( not because old one was bad.)

11/2024 That's the current state. I moved the car outside of my friends garage because this is very dirty work and dont want to occupy the garage, because we do our regular maitnance in there. Since I do this after work, it was easy in the summer, day last very long, it's warm etc, but now when...

The ammount of selaer on the car, and the fact it's so slow to remove, it's exhausting