R27 #177

[Stefan.]

I like it

Not a fan of white

 

[Knuckles]

Quick/poor ps to get an idea of white.

I love it tbh

With spacers it'll look hella epic.

 

[Smiffyboy1990]

I prefer the White personally, theres a RB 197 with White Speedlines for sale near me, looks amazing, just a PITA to clean lol.

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[Knuckles]

When they go white they'll be getting 2k paint and clear coat and washing after each use as they wont be daily wheels. Hopefully they'll not be too much of a pita that way

 

[Knuckles]

I stole a few pics from a guy on the renaultsport forum's flikr

I love the look of the 225 width front tyres. They fill the arches much better than the standard 215 section ones

 

[Mr Plums]

I love the white wheels on these pics they look really good mate, do it!

 

[Knuckles]

I love the white wheels on these pics they look really good mate, do it!

I'll do it eventually. They're at the point where they just need a slight sand, primer paint and laquer.

When I get some spare cash I'll get some 2k paint and lacquer and do them

 

[Paul.M]

Car looks great Scott, I couldn't get the half a day in the end I was 'required' to be in work haha.

Hope all went well!

 

[JamesBryan]

@p@blo was there?

Never saw him?

 

[Knuckles]

Car looks great Scott, I couldn't get the half a day in the end I was 'required' to be in work haha.

Hope all went well!

Cheers and what a shame. You'll have to book next year off lol

@p@blo was there?

Never saw him?

Yup, he arrived around 3 iirc.

He spent most of the afternoon in cals car while cal tried to kill him

 

[Knuckles]

So after finding my brakes weren't up to track work at the renaultsport day and my rears needing changing, I bought new rear discs and pads and front ds2500s from George. I'll be fitting these soon and hopefully they'll hold up to Blyton in a couple of months.

Although my front discs were changed with the pads last August before the last renaultsport day, I think I'll change them anyway as I've got an inkling that they aren't genuine Renault/brembo.

So I'll hold off fitting the ds2500s until I've buy some front discs.

Also, I cracked my splitter a few months back getting of ash's drive.

It held up fine until a couple of weeks ago when I touched a curb with it and the whole thing sheared, snapping at a couple of fixing points. This needed sorting.

I started whipping off the bumper to get to the screws holding the splitter to the edges of the bumper

Poor splitter

Took the splitter to work and fixed it to a table after positioning it together and bonding with araldite.

After this dried, I suck a few layers of mesh down and fibreglassed over it for strength.

After the fibreglass dried, I went over it with filler to get a smoothish finish on the back and a smooth finish on the front.

That's all I have pics of at the moment but it's currently mid way through being fully smoothed, then it can be sprayed and put back on the car.


I'm stuck as to what to do with it though.

Gloss black I think will look pikey, would satin black paint look oem enough and stay looking decent?

I'm dabbling with carbon dip, but, it could look pikey as f**k and I'd have to research different companies because I've seen a lot of shite carbon dip.

Thoughts?

 

[welshname]

Looking good. I fancy some ds2500's for mine. Let me know how you get on.

Did my vague instructions on removing the front bumper work then?

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[cs_dave]

All carbon dip looks s**t tbf. Sayin black would look fine imo

 

[Knuckles]

Looking good. I fancy some ds2500's for mine. Let me know how you get on.

Did my vague instructions on removing the front bumper work then?

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It did actually. I wrote a proper guide on it afterwards though.

It'll save someone else from removing all four undertray bolts lol

All carbon dip looks s**t tbf. Sayin black would look fine imo

I've seen some that actually look real, I'll try and find some pictures.

 

[Knuckles]

Some, like Tyler's old work, looks epic. But it's few and far between

But for every good/ ok dip, you get thousands like this

 

[Knuckles]

I gave the splitter a quick coat of primer to se how much more work I need to do.

Thankfully not too much.

The crack is all gone, just a little more smoothing and a coat of paint and jobs a good un

 

[Mr Plums]

Uve done a right job there kid

 

[Knuckles]

Cheers.

Top bodger right here.

 

[Pacman.]

Looking good dude. I toyed with the idea of White trackday wheels but went with black instead.

 

[Knuckles]

I don't think white suits the standard wheels, it's not suited them on any I've seen at least.

The speedlines however, look immense white. IMO ofc

 

[172Oz]

Looks spot on that splitter :up:

 

[Knuckles]

Hopefully it looks as good when I'm done

 

[Knuckles]

'Finished' the splitter today and dry fitted it. It's not perfect but it'll do until I decide what to do with it.

I'll try and get it fitted tomorrow night so it looks presentable again.

 

[Flat Eric]

Done a good job of that!

 

[Knuckles]

Ds2500 front pads fitted today along with oem rear discs and pads and new supergold fluid.

Then I stopped an annoying little blow in the exhaust.

The rears were well overdue! One pad out of four was doing all of the work (what little work the rears do anyway). And I think I found why so many owners have trouble with the rears binding... The rear pads get jammed in the tensioners.

We had to file a fair bit off the sides of the pads to get them to fit smoothly, so hopefully that's put and end to the binding.

First impressions of the fronts are they're leagues better than oem.

I took a local twisty road home and found myself under shooting the corners by a fair amount! Having to accelerate again to get around the corners due to braking where I'm used to on oem pads.

 

[welshname]

Have you done the proper bedding in procedure with them? Seriously needs doing or they work like s**t in comparison

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[Knuckles]

I was just about to fax you actually.

I did what George said, got them up to temperature with slow, medium and fast brakes with medium pressure then a few proper anchorings on and left them to cool.

I've just been to the ponderosa and they're ace so far.

If they don't work well enough at Blyton I'll bed them in again on the track.

 

[welshname]

I was just about to fax you actually.

I did what George said, got them up to temperature with slow, medium and fast brakes with medium pressure then a few proper anchorings on and left them to cool.

I've just been to the ponderosa and they're ace so far.

If they don't work well enough at Blyton I'll bed them in again on the track.

If you follow the procedure you'll be fine. So long as you use them properly from time to time and don't let them glaze over.

Drop me a message in a few weeks and let me know what you think of them and I'll get myself a set I think. Standard ones are really hit and miss at times. Think they all need a good bleed up with some decent fluid and I really miss my braided lines.

 

[Knuckles]

If you follow the procedure you'll be fine. So long as you use them properly from time to time and don't let them glaze over.

Drop me a message in a few weeks and let me know what you think of them and I'll get myself a set I think. Standard ones are really hit and miss at times. Think they all need a good bleed up with some decent fluid and I really miss my braided lines.

They get used well on my commute haha.

Will do. If you can make it to csf as well you can have a go to compare for yourself.

I know! They were epic when I first got the car and just went awful.

I've tried oem with super blue fluid and oem fluid, they were s**t both times.

Braided lines will be next for me if I cook these at Blyton.

 

[Knuckles]

Just got back from demon tweeks with a couple of new tyres. Now I've got a full set of ns2rs. Hopefully the car is a bit more predictable and I can lean on it a bit more than when I had the contis on the back

 

[Knuckles]

Not a big update but the car had an oil change and air con re gass today in preparation for Anglesey in a couple of weeks.

I was dying at CSF with sub par air con!

Also, I've not updated this since csf, but on the ns2rs and ds2500s the car was incredible around Blyton.

I could not get the rear to let go (will have to play with tyre pressures next time) until a good few laps when I cooked them. Even with a massive couple of slides the car was still perfectly manageable

Roll on sept 12th!

 

[Knuckles]

Found a video of my car at Anglesey last week. The car sorely needs a diff (or I need more tuition) because I had to rely on left foot braking to keep the front in check coming onto and going past the pit straight.

The 182 (iirc) which was filming the video had very good brakes!

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Fcuking LOL @ needing a diff.

Get some tuition and buy a map to an apex.

Good lord.

 

[Knuckles]

Gtf. Everyone knows new parts are better than skills.

 

[Djw John]

Fcuking LOL @ needing a diff.

Get some tuition and buy a map to an apex.

Good lord.

Lol! It's a fair point though, you've paid for all track, right up to the kerbs, get your monies worth.

 

[JamesBryan]

Yeah, some of those lines are off.

Still get a diff though, i'm considering one tbh

 

[Knuckles]

Yeah, some of those lines are off.

Still get a diff though, i'm considering one tbh

I'll have to watch some vids of proper lines around Anglesey. I'm getting better with regards to using all the track though.

I remember being shocked at how far over you go to the outside of the track. Haha

 

[JamesBryan]

Feel free to watch some of mine from earlier this year, probably not much better than you though 😂



I think the Coastal circuit is about 9-10 mins in.

 

[JamesBryan]

I also have this book too, not that cheap mind but it's good.

http://www.circuitguides.com/product/uk-circuit-guide/

 

[Knuckles]

I'll reply in the track day thread if you don't mind, and I'll repost that vid for pointers too

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