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Cleaned it for the first time after paint. Bricking it, tippy toe-ing around it like a ballet dancer fretting about finding damage. Drove it. Which is an event in itself, and a novelty still as its only the third time out on the road, still bricking it and keeping a massive gap to cars in...

Made it to CSS :-D even got the whole car underbody sealed as well. Its now completely filthy and at the detailing Antichrist I have no idea what to do about it lol

MOT passed Saturday after changing a rear driveshaft boot :D the hub nut was tight as you like and I snapped my breaker bar! Took the time while I was in there with a lift to remove and free off all four track rod arms and ends and adjusty bits. Last thing you want when doing Geo is a fight...

The seats look great but also serve a purpose of actually making it viable for me to drive. I'm 6'6" with a 36" inside leg, so the OE seats make the seating position untenable for more than short drives especially without cruise. The much thinner Pole Positions mounted right back against the...

One fog light and trim fitted Went to fit the other fog and found that where the hooky clips go over the lip in the bumper, the fibreglass of the bumper had frayed a bit, and wouldnt hold the fog light at the top properly. It has a bolt in the bottom too, but still, wanted the light unit...

More checked off the jobs list. Seats hoovered and fitted in. Yum. Sexy. I went about refitting the undertrays and found that some of the old bolts had broken and previously bodged with a self tapper, so I whipped the bar off holding the broken fitting and drilled it out and put a rivnut...

I very much hope we can park my virgin, just painted silver Phase 1 next to yours and have a yin/yang moment! Took next week off to try and finish reassembling it :)

Its a right of passage, I almost broke my own nose when a rear diff refill plug cracked off suddenly under my Renault 21. Needless to say I don't double-hand-pull spanners toward my face any more

Carried on reassembling the front end today, lots of trims and stuff going back in. Put new rivnuts in to hold the big trim across the front too, with a bunch of new spire clips and stainless bolts and fir trees. Also bolted the seat runners back in too. More on the seats later... i'm a 6'6"...

Trying to get it done for CSS at the end of the month. I want some use out of it this year before the winter closes in, i'll probably tackle the cambelt service while the weather sucks, its due on time soon. The clutch and water pump have been done though so might have a bash at doing it with...

Yukky brake discs from standing around resolved with a good old flap-disc-ing Refitted inner arch liners and stuff and put the first proper wheel on as that corner was sorted (I think!) More tinkering tomorrow. Only got a few hours today as I picked up a free Nissan Micra (ewww) first...

I'll do a thread on the 21 when I get around to it. I have a 197 cup too that I should post about! Teaser, from 2.5km up in the Swiss Alps in 2016, one of my fave pics of the car. How it didnt melt down I will never know, the air was so thin I was well down on power and reduced cooling meant...

This is something I read somewhere a while ago, and saved it to a notepad file, so credit to whoever wrote it, not me. If I recall correctly this was written some 12 or 13 years ago. >>> By no means is the 5k kick the result of any mechanical/electronic chance within the engine system, whether...

Gratuitous wheel pics I sometimes read it back myself just because I can't believe I actually got away with building it. Waited 10 years to build, spent over 3 years building it. 21 Turbo Quadra, 4wd, one of 146 made in RHD and one of the 20-ish surviving ones. Rescued it from a scrap yard...

Cross posted from TR https://turborenault.co.uk/threads/the-last-thing-i-needed-was-another-project-car.100276/ I couldnt afford it and I didnt have time for it. So. I bought it anyway... I've just picked it up after a marathon 2-day round trip (from Coventry to Aberdeen and back) from being...

[Nerd mode] The inlet cam dephases at something like 1600rpm, the kick you feel at 5k is natural [/Nerd mode]

I took my Renault 9 Turbo off the road when my daughter was brewing, with the intent to restore it. She's 13 in October. I havent even started on it yet.

Sorry.... ....not sorry :D

Haha! Yeah it took me 3 years or so to build it, the only thing I didn't do with my own two hands were drive the digger to prep and dig the foundations and lay the breeze blocks (though I did the donkey work labouring for the bricky). I'd never built anything before, and completely winged it...

That would be worth some dosh now, Even rolling shells needing work are fetching 4 figures.

I suspect I should start my own threads this is tuning into a hijack lol Fresh back from the paint shop this weekend ready for reassembly. The 21 at the 'Ring and in the Swiss Alps, you will have seen it at CSS a couple of years back too, last pic. As it stands now in my freshly built...

The 21 has a big following in France, think Sierra Cosworth over here. They have an assiciated price tag though so a £3k minter over here is €10k over there. As such parts are priced accordingly and any NOS that comes up is usually hoovered up very quickly. On the plus side there is enough...

Quite fancy a Meglio conversion though.... :)

Thankyou for the tip, I have a spare from a second hand manifold I bought so I might try swapping that in. I have noticed that the kangarooing reduces with higher octane fuel as well, but as i'm sure everyone knows it's hard to investigate thoroughly when its only an apprent issue for a minute...

Yes, Quadra. Rescued it from a scrap yard in Accrington after an engine bay fire in '98-ish, found another 1991 Quadra in a scrap yard in Wales that had been crashed in '93 with only 18,042 miles on it and then sat in a warehouse for eight years and bought that too, salvaged everything i needed...

Headlights failed completely - needed new UPC (https://turborenault.co.uk/threads/197-headlight-wiring-relay.82805/) Lower swivel balljoints - hub split when replacing one Exhaust flexis, then exhaust joint not matching up and blowing, cut the middle section out and fitted a sleeve joint and...

I'm the opposite to this. Twenty years now I've had this old wreck :) I don't think i'll ever sell it, ever. Told my kids to bury me in it.

Worst car i've owned in a long time. Only bettered (worsened?) by a Rover 416 and a Vauxhall Astra.

Clio 197 cup Headlight question- my dip beam cut out last night. Mains, sides and fogs work OK. Identified fuses and relay in engine bay. Fuses OK, relay tests OK/swapped with fog relay. Bridged the connection and dip beam works. What triggers the relay? There is no signal coming to trip the...

Yeah i'm thinking i'll stick with OE colour to protect the residual value but then wrap it something completely and utterly eye-wateringly loud :D