Search results

Interesting, what is your set up? Is yours a standard F4R with a turbo or does it have uprated internals or Megane bottom end etc..?

Damn gutted :( lovely looking car as well. Heard of a few bending rods when running over 300lb/ft

Yes both the same.

Looks ace, do you ever drive it?

Not allowed to take pictures of your car, insane... The times we live in :( Back in my day we were allowed to take pictures of our cars and a packet of spicy bikers and a chomp still cost 10p

Very nice mate, those seats are ace!

Excellent, everything should be cool then. Yeah pretty much the same here i've had my Clio for 10 or 11 years now and i'll definitely have it another 10 or 11 years and if it blows up in that time i'll just rebuild. What I do is I keep a spreadsheet called "Clio Log" in which I have fields for...

I think it's fine, I do all my own work and just write the details in the service book and keep all the receipts. I think what most people would be looking out for on the Renault sport range is that stuff like the timing belt kit, dephaser etc.. are done by a respected and known specialist.

The camshaft horseshoe tool is only really needed to set the cams in position and lock them. It's the camshaft pulley tool that has all the stress and force exerted on it. If it's locked up properly with that then there shouldn't really be any force exerted on the horseshoe tool. Maybe i'm...

To check the timing you need the crank pin and horse shoe. Lock engine at TDC and then see if the horse shoe slots in the cam profiles on the gearbox end. if it slots in with ease then it's timed up properly if they are off and it doesn't then obviously timing is out.

Yeah true mate, £34 bargin, that's why I still have my mk2 1.2 12 years later, parts are so cheap to replace.

Easy peasy mate, I do mine now with the car on the ground. Yeah pretty much that's what you do, I think there is a guide somewhere on here if you get stuck.

It has but not by a specialist so the horseshoe wont fit and it's down on power. Very cool though :D

Haha still looks ace though ;)

Haha, loving the duct tape on the bumper gives the car character, like it's been through the wars. :D

Like R3k1355 says you could get a very nice R26 for that money and get it mapped to 250-270bhp for an extra £400-500 if more horses is what you're after. Fast and handles great, maybe not as chuckable as the Clio. All depends on what you're looking for.

Nice mate! Welcome to the club :)

Yeah I think you're right. Like one above and one below the centre line?

Yeah probably dialogys, which if I remember someone said had the incorrect instructions on locking the cams to loosen and re-tighten.

So according to him the F4R is the same as changing the belt on a D4F, Ok then...

The dephaser pulley costs about £95. If the cams didn't line up at the start then the timing was off to begin with, so heavens knows what he's done to make it worse.

Well when at TDC the camshaft bar tool should slot in with no problems. Probably didn't use the pulley locking tool when loosening and re-tightening the cam pulleys, thus knocking it out of position. Like people have said above he probably fooked up the timing and blamed it on the dephaser...

Aww man that is complete crap! What a totally stunning car as well.

So it was fine before you went in, they charged you £470 for a belt kit, water pump and aux belt kit, now it's running like crap and they want to charge you nearly 200£ to redo it with the dephaser. Probably not a "specialist"...

Welcome mate, loads of good info on here so you'll never be stuck.

Very cool project, great car :)

Nice one man, and welcome!

I think the fear of doing the belts on the f4r stems from the fact that nowhere that i've read seems to have the correct procedure on how to do it "right" not even the offical guides. To do the job you need all the tools not just the crank pin and the gearbox side cam bar tool. All the...

Looking very nice, great project.

Hey, there are lots of threads on all the above just have a quick search. The F4R is quite a highly tuned unit as standard and extracting more power out of it with out spending a decent chunk of money is quite difficult. Few people have got remaps using the rs tuner but supposedly it wont give...