F388 DSM -V6 turbo

so how do I avoid setting the whole lot ablaze???

Send it to someone who knows what they're doing

I don't weld that well so my good mate nextdoor does that whilst I'm on prep and fire duty .....carefully does it and no big long burns ....

......... so am waiting for the postman with 2 new ones from Bulgaria!!

Did you not try Renault, as I am sure they still have them ....... or they did a short while ago. ?

John,
yes, my dealer quoted £20 ish each on special order from Renault, but as I'm in no hurry thought I'd try the pattern ones....

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Can't seem to upload in PM as '.jpeg format not allowed'!
Extent of the turret rot.

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Trev's car arrived for a rot repair .
Turrets are pretty bad but not the worst we've seen + subframe etc all in a pretty bad way but we have all fresh bits to swap out .New bushes required all round + arb hanger/bush and also a couple of engine mounts .

Trev, Where did you get your pattern part door solinoids...I have the same problem with my door locks.
Cheers Eddie.

Crickey, that's a lot of rot who did you buy that from?
I'd seriously suggest anyone thinking about buying a gta 610 etc has John Law forum JLEngineering or Lee from RATS Renault alpine tuning services check it over prior to purchasing.

Dave

Eddie, am away but will upload some pics of the very minor modifications I had to make to the mountings early next week. They were off ebay.


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261257990073? ... 1439.l2649.

They are working fine just now but who knows for how long!!

Dave, well to be fair the car has been off the road for over 8 years so has been slowing going that way!!!! Sold as a 'project'.....hmmmmm


Thanks clee for the great updates and progress reports

Apart from the obvious the rest of the car doesn't look too bad at all .Needs a steering gator ,full fluid drops and filters .Sporting a cone filter in the hot bay but I have a couple of std boxes so can pop one of them on .Interior very clean as is the boot + it fires up on the button and sounds OK .
All the rear wishbone bushes are fecked though and bolts siezed solid but again I have spares for service exchange and will attack the old stuff later and see what we lose to the scrapman ...... Subframe is reasonable enough .
Brakes we have some refurbed rears and the fronts may play ball and be OK .New flexi lines + replace one of the rear solids and pop for MOT .

Thanks Lee,
I think there were some new rear flexi's in the box with the callipers if they were the right ones!!
Keeping my fingers crossed nothing else major falls off...........

Trev

They do look great in silver though,

Drivers side all repaired and other well underway .We are having to secure the turret as the pass side had moved a tad..... .

Beautiful job Lee!!

Top job as ever.

Lee and your welder dude.