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Sounds like UCH or Easter ingress into the loom itself perhaps. You'll need a specialist look at it imo, maybe not Renault in particular but a car wiring specialist may be able diagnose
As above, it's alive and well in a different guise, f4r powered and full interior, almost what I had envisaged anyway so it's great really that it's happened.
Congratulations 🎉 always nice to see something running and moving under it's own steam that hasn't for a long time!
Worry about the bodywork later imo, get her driving reliably and send it
Great work, just read the full thread and what a rollercoaster!
Really hope it all goes back in fine now and you're on track before the end of the year!
Excellent choice and sounds like you're mature approach to the car will see you right! Congratulations on a cracking purchase and you won't got bored of it, I've used mine since you were 7 and it's still a firm favourite and remains basically road stock
F4's are bomb proof when looked after, the old RB was 263k when it was written off in a crash, still doing trackdays and daily grind then. Original engine, original gearbox, both never rebuilt, not so much as a head gasket. Reckon it would have done another quarter of a million no sweat
I see your 150k and raise you 182k, with the same issues, dents, scratches and lacquer cloud on the roof, flol
Needs a bath still
How much are you paying for the roof if you don't mind me asking @chazza114
I don't know I'm afraid but I'll ask Tiny Looms Peter who's a wiring guru, you can also join the MK1 F4R Facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1LhmC4okKi/
When I did my conversion I just chucked the entire loom set in, wired up all I needed and then just fired it up and started...
Resurrection time, so finished the 2024 season all good and rolled into last year, and got half a day at Mallory in May done and that was it...... Sigh.
So basically, 12 years ago or whatever it was when I scavenged the wiring setup for the car from @daveski old Iceberg phase 1 172 (130k mile...