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Thank you - yes I am delighted he is involved. He's never shown a lot of interest in car stuff until recently (and I never forced it on him) and he's been helping me service, change brakes and bits like that so this seemed like natural progression. I have to say though... wouldnt an 11,000rpm...

Got him removing the carpet next As previously mentioned - filthy pigs! We bashed the loose stuff off, hoovered it, pressure washed it, then soaked it in hot water with a liquitab and vanish dissolved in it, then hit it with one of those drill brush things, then pressure washed the soap...

We were considering a new interior all together but I thought i'd just give it a shot taking the covers off and giving them a wash in the machine. 3 hour anti-stain wash with a liquitab and some vanish. Would you believe it? Good or what?! Reassembled with zip ties instead of those horrig...

First off, yes I went through full hazmat biological decontamination after being in this thing. Why would you do this to your car? The seats are supposed to be the same colour as the door cards. Filthy pigs!

OK OK So the title is a little provocative but its actually a 2015 MK3 999cc 3 cylinder Twingo with the engine under the boot floor - I believe a shared platform with a Smart car? I got this off copart for fairly cheap, its got a broken front bumper and needs a clutch. Its for my son, currently...

With the fan loom and fog light loom done I refitted the nosecone and bonnet, again stainless fastners and new spire clips everywhere.

Decided to refit the brake cooling ducts and trim, this meant dealing with the rusty crap that was stuck in place And also remaking the brackets which had done a fairly good job of disintigrating, I did triangulate the corners to reinforce, pics later when I paint them. Refitted with...

Despite the entire handbrake system being new and the calipers rebuilt as you saw earlier in the thread, the handbrake wasnt working. I traced the issue to the OSR caliper, the lever was just moving and not binding the brake on. Tried to fiddle with it in place but ended up taking the whole...

New alternator arrived but was damaged so returned it - some thug had dropped it and bent one of the fins, and it was catching the housing. I could have bent it back but you dont know if its damaged the bearing/shaft. With a few more wiggles of the spanners it drove out of the garage! I...

Wow my last update was Jan 15th! I have been tinkering away a bit, but I did enjoy a rather splendid Ski holiday with my kids at the end of Jan - Andorra. (This is my 16yo lad, not me, btw!) Anyway, I was having a right old hassle with the copper tracks in the rear lights so I rewired them...

I'll have a chat with the TR crew and see if we can fund another Toblerone.

Thats an interesting price tag.

We will try and arrange the static shot session a bit better this time, those that rolled up last time got some great pics but I dont think enough people knew about it. It's just quite nice to get some photos without any background disturbances/people/distractions. Should be some great angles...

I went in it at the 2022 CSF, Jesus H Christ its an experience!

Yes we (TurboRenault) have booked a photographer for the day - same one as the last Blyton gig (Katie).

Winter filth! No garage queen :D Balls.

Fitted the new pump & filter, drained the tank of old fuel while I was there. Of course the bracket studs snapped so I had to drill those out, and replaced some fuel pipe.

Working indicators, brake lights and fog lights - just the rear sidelights to sort. Ended up opening the cluster boards - pain in the arse! Before/After Other side - eww. Cant get a feed in on the tail light, so needs further investigation.

eBay is many times cheaper, you could get 50 for the price of a few from Halfrauds last time I looked.

New boot seal arrived so I popped it on when I took it out to the garage last night. Also arrived is what I need to finish the boost pipes and the crankcase vent, so hopefully thats this weekend.

I sorted the bit of exhaust I missed, luckily easy to reach on the side, rather than at the top or over an axle :) Made a quick bracket to hold the fuel pump, yes i'm going to use zipties for now, no you may not comment on that. Then I made up a car condom of sorts, as I still hadn't...

We can't even plug a USB storage device in any more and yet powershell is fine!

I prefer something a little more eloquent - save this in a notepad file on your desktop, rename it to (whatever).ps1 then right click>run with powershell. This keeps your screen active and stops Teams going to "Away" # # -- NoSleep -- # Keep your computer awake by programmatically pressing the...

I bought the Milwaukee M18 1/2" and quite frankly its unbelievable. Spectacular torque, battery life is fantastic.

Plate on. Off to the Alpine meet at C&M tomorrow with both wanker-plated Clio's.

This is exhausting work (groan) This was a R5 GT Turbo Prima Group A system I stashed away around 2004, finally dragged it out to discover its nothing like around the back axle so I had to break out the grinder. The hope was it'd be very similar and just need extending for length. But...

Also popped in the other headlight ready to be wired up

Blackwire scourge! Pulled out a load of wiring I dont need (probably) Temp gauge working, also wired in the alternator which I had initially got wrong and the cables were a shambles anyway so now the battery light works and the alternator charges. Temp gauge was a sod to do, I had to take...

Well I just did the fricking cambelt so i'm hoping it wont rinse me for anything else for a little while at least!