Did the Renault Sport trackday at oulton last month followed by a trackday the day after on the Saturday to give the car a good test.
Sadly had niggles all weekend. on the Renault sport day after just half a lap the megane gear linkage clip failed giving me little to no gears! managed to find first and drive 2/3 lap in first gear to avoid causing a red flag! fixed the clip with some cable ties which worked fine for the rest of the outing. A little water leak causes by a weak spring clip replaced with a jubilee clip again all good. Paul at RS tuning was there on the day and he noticed the alternator bolt had worked loose luckily it had wedged into the bracket that holds the idler pulley and not the actual pulley! again addressed that by now it was raining so put the wets on and had a good couple of successful laps car went well for the rest of the day.
Saturday did the sighting laps ok and just as I was about to go for my first session the electric power steering failed, then became very intermittent so decided to unplug it and risk it with nothing. the car was a handful to say the least but at least I could use it. toward lunch time I started check my wheel bolts for torque when one wouldn't tighten it stripped the thread from the alloy spacer! decided to give it a few laps to see if it would hold. Came back to the pits to check to find that one on the other side had done the same and a 2nd from the same side had striped! game over around lunch time called it a day. not a very successful weekend but it was the first outing since all the winter work.
Luckily a friend had a megane R26r and a clio mk3 turbo and very kindly let me share those for the rest of the day!
have since discovered the clip on the linkage is just dead end of, so I have had a total hew gear leaver and shifter from the R26 we're breaking. The Wheel spacers have gone in the bin and I have ordered 2 new sets of pro race 1.2 and some R888r as all my wheels are buckled and the tyres have gone off! A new power steering motor/ECU was fitted, we discovered the rain from the Friday had got in and dripped on the ECU, down to us fitting the roll cage and drilling lots of holes. This has now been relocated so shouldn't happen again. A lock nut on the bolt for the alternator has been fitted to stop that working loose again.
So that's it a pic below on the new wheels different offset front/rear to avoid any spacers. suspension has been raised a touch but may do it a bit more as the rears are quite close to the rear arches.
We are heading over to SPA a week Saturday with the clio for a two day track day so lets see/hope its more successful!