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Thats normal. If you can, get it to machine shop just to regrind the mating surface to prep it for new clutch, or the faster way, red scotchbrite. Check your main seal, looks oily.

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.

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

Removed the rear axle, fuel tank, exhaust, everything Factory sealer is a perfect hider of rust, on the outside it doesn't look that bad, but underneath, it's crying for it's life

10/2024 It's always nice to spend the summer working on the car, not on the beach, right? Right? mhm.. So, once again, this car has took almost 1 more summer from me, and my job also, life is fun when you are living it to the max... yea,, nope.. I'm just gonna throw bunch of pictures of how it...

Also thought it was a good idea to wash the car when i dissasembled everything... yep.. Remover the seal around the front & rear windshield, the front was good, but rear no to much Went on with the cleaning , This was still early stage and I was really optimistic I would get this...

So I went with sanding all the car, to have it fully painted, and so I sanded and sanded and sanded.... Remember what I've said that I didnt look the rest of the car when sitting on that garage floor? Well, I also didnt look at the rear of the car when I realised the sills need to be...

Ready for primer sealer Bit of luck that day, although this part is with no delivery date in renault, I placed an order, and it arrived after 3 months Syncro kit for jc5 ( its for jc5, but 1st and 2nd gear are not "double" like at later jc5, for example 089, this fits for jc5 053 (...

Went with epoxy primer over it, just so it doesent rust, as I couldnt get my hands to work on the car. Oh, I didnt say this. The previous owner ( the young one, that had the car painted ) sad the body was done and everything was ok. Mhm, i'll let you take a look for yourself Thats like...

29/1/2024 The next step was getting the sills done, they were really, really bad.. Couldnt jack up the car.. This time I took it to different guy, he really is an oldschool guy, knows his job, but like all of them, he takes his time.. 5/2024 It took only 4 month to replace the sills and few...