Recent content by Optimista

looks sooo good!

The plan is to take the whole engine apart and measure and inspect everything. I also have some 197 pistons, although I didn't intend to put them in this engine.. Maybe when the opportunity arises, that will come in too.. I don't think there will be an engine update anytime soon.. Cheers from...

Spark plug, 1 greasy because the vvt solenoid was leaking, the rest are as they are, I suspect water got in when washing the engine. I need to check the timing when I get the right cam tool, but to my eye the engine looks out of phase. There is no shortage of silicone on the cam...

Sill was full of imperfections, but nothing that couldn't be leveled with 2 hammers. What did I say I was just going to replace the rod bearings? mhm.. well since im here... The engine installation will need to be inspected in detail and I've already seen some things that need to be...

How does the saying go, while I'm here, might as well do this.. Hmmm.. Took off the fenders and sills to see what was hiding under the fenders, thank God it was nothing serious except for the bent sill from the jack, a typical clio 2 flaw. Fenders have accumulated dirt, so it is...

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.