Who here owns a Renaultsport?

MG42Maniac · 18 May 2010 at 22:52

Wow, sorry to hear about your run of very bad luck ScarySquirrel

I've had mine just over a month as well and the exhaust has started to blow, so that is booked in for Friday. Still not used to the sound of the Milltek so only noticed it was blowing when I was stood outside the car talking for a bit while the engine was running, hopefully it has not been blowing for too long!

On another note, the owner before me changed the tyres literally a week before I purchased the car, problem is he put some crappy Sunny sn3800 tyres on it to replace the worn PE2's. Very annoying as he always used high end consumables right up until selling it to me

Handling does not seem anywhere near as tight as my Saxo VTR and I can feel it sliding about a bit under hard-ish corning. The car has the cup suspension and to be honest I expected much better handling, I assume this is down to the tyres rather than the car?

Part of me wants to replace them right away and the other half says keep them as they are brand new and are fine as long as I don't 'explore the handling capabilities'.

Xez · 18 May 2010 at 22:55

Get a second hand engine for £400 or however much and get someone off the forum to help you fit it. They're very easy engines to change over and work on. The cambelt is the only annoying part due to needing special tools. A lot of forum members will already have these though!

Did you do lots of limiter bashing? As addictive the sound may be, since I last changed the engine on my clio it was very reliable since I'd never hit the limiter

ScarySquirrel · 18 May 2010 at 23:07

MG42Maniac said:
Wow, sorry to hear about your run of very bad luck ScarySquirrel

I've had mine just over a month as well and the exhaust has started to blow, so that is booked in for Friday. Still not used to the sound of the Milltek so only noticed it was blowing when I was stood outside the car talking for a bit while the engine was running, hopefully it has not been blowing for too long!

On another note, the owner before me changed the tyres literally a week before I purchased the car, problem is he put some crappy Sunny sn3800 tyres on it to replace the worn PE2's. Very annoying as he always used high end consumables right up until selling it to me Handling does not seem anywhere near as tight as my Saxo VTR and I can feel it sliding about a bit under hard-ish corning. The car has the cup suspension and to be honest I expected much better handling, I assume this is down to the tyres rather than the car?

Part of me wants to replace them right away and the other half says keep them as they are brand new and are fine as long as I don't 'explore the handling capabilities'.

I had 3 worn PE2s and 1 budget tyre on mine (the seller did the same and put the budget on before selling it) and the handling was a bit dodgy. The car felt a bit unstable when accelerating hard and also at speed. I had 4 new PE2s fitted last week and the car was transformed. I would highly recommended getting new performance tyres all round and selling the budgets on eBay or something.

Xez said:
Get a second hand engine for £400 or however much and get someone off the forum to help you fit it. They're very easy engines to change over and work on. The cambelt is the only annoying part due to needing special tools. A lot of forum members will already have these though!

Did you do lots of limiter bashing? As addictive the sound may be, since I last changed the engine on my clio it was very reliable since I'd never hit the limiter

It does seem that I should be look at about £400-500 for the engine and around £400-500 for the fitting, which isn't as bad as I first thought. I just need to find the engine, and someone to fit it.

There is a freelance guy on ClioSport.net who does it for £300, but he lives in Bedford. I have asked if he can travel so I'll see what he says.

Smokey McPot · 19 May 2010 at 08:20

ScarySquirrel said:
There is a freelance guy on ClioSport.net who does it for £300, but he lives in Bedford. I have asked if he can travel so I'll see what he says.

Find out from other people if his work is good. I might be able to do some research as Bedford is local to me. Does he have a name?

Also, you should be able to either sell your broken engine or eventually rebuild it to whatever spec you like and either keep it or sell it. Hopefully it'll soften the blow.

Ev0 · 19 May 2010 at 19:15

There will be plenty of people over on Cliosport who would do this for a few quid, just find someone local-ish and who is well known on there to do it.

Sam · 19 May 2010 at 19:19

Ev0 said:
There will be plenty of people over on Cliosport who would do this for a few quid, just find someone local-ish and who is well known on there to do it.

^ This

im sure someone would help you for a drink, easily done in a day its hardly rocket science ... I think if you look hard enough you will find someone to help you fit it for under £200 ... You must have mate whos handy with a spanner?

Ev0 · 19 May 2010 at 19:45

Stick a post up in a relevant section asking if you haven't already

Barks · 19 May 2010 at 21:00

This looks absolutely EPIC (mostly) but where is the exhaust? Can you easily fit after market ones onto it because the rear looks pathetic.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1704095.htm

Sam · 19 May 2010 at 21:07

You can fit an aftermarket i belive but thats how they are standard, looks good IMO

Barks · 19 May 2010 at 21:39

To a non-petrol head that car could be a bog average 1.2 from the rear.

The 200 twin exhaust system looks great. I do however think that particular example is absolute stunning. I'd definitely fit on twin exhausts and Xenons (advert must be mistaken as I thought you can't get them on the new shape Clio)

Janesy B · 19 May 2010 at 21:42

scott212 said:
To a non-petrol head that car could be a bog average 1.2 from the rear.

Yeah, with the rear diffuser, Renault F1 and Renault Sport decals, ookayyy ¬_¬.

Sam · 19 May 2010 at 21:43

scott212 said:
To a non-petrol head that car could be a bog average 1.2 from the rear.

The 200 twin exhaust system looks great. I do however think that particular example is absolute stunning. I'd definitely fit on twin exhausts and Xenons (advert must be mistaken as I thought you can't get them on the new shape Clio)

Are you for real

How about the wide rear tyres and the massive diffuser :confused:

2 Exhausts will tell every other chav that you have a renaultsport but i dont think they look that much better ... The clio 200 looks better than the 197 but that has nothing to do with the exhaust

Westyfield2 · 19 May 2010 at 22:17

scott212 said:
This looks absolutely EPIC (mostly) but where is the exhaust? Can you easily fit after market ones onto it because the rear looks pathetic.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1704095.htm

I remember this from when they were launched! The exhaust is hidden away, and there's no massive rear spoiler.

The Renault marketing department wanted a big showy exhaust and spoiler, but the designers proved how their diffuser worked better without it. Performance > 'Style'.

Pretty sure it was evo that wrote about it originally.

Barks · 19 May 2010 at 22:38

Do they still sound good then?

ScarySquirrel · 20 May 2010 at 08:18

Update on my little situation, looks like Tom at JMS Tuning in Uxbridge is able to sort me out. They are a trader on ClioSport.net and they have fantastic feedback in their trader section.

He says he can transport my car to their garage, source an engine, fit it, and he said he won't be charging £800 for labour!!

The garage it is at currently got back to me yesterday. Including cam kit, access kit, water pump, oil filter, spark plugs, oil & coolant they wanted £1,359 (this includes £800 labour!!!). On top of that I would have to source my own engine. Bloody joke!

Let's hope JMS can sort me out. I can't wait to get it back on the road. In the mean time I'm driving this:

AshFU · 20 May 2010 at 10:16

scott212 said:
To a non-petrol head that car could be a bog average 1.2 from the rear.

The 200 twin exhaust system looks great. I do however think that particular example is absolute stunning. I'd definitely fit on twin exhausts and Xenons (advert must be mistaken as I thought you can't get them on the new shape Clio)

the one in the add is a 197, and yes they can come with xenons.... i have them on my racing blue... nipples on the front are the give away

Barks · 20 May 2010 at 15:16

AshFU said:
the one in the add is a 197, and yes they can come with xenons.... i have them on my racing blue... nipples on the front are the give away

Do you mean the standard 197 or the F1 edition in that Pistonheads ad?

I can't find anything on their website to say they came with Xenons, they have projector beams which are what the sphere things look like but are they actually xenon lamps?

Ev0 · 20 May 2010 at 17:49

Xenons were an option on the 197, was not standard like the phase 2 172 and 182 (non cups/trophy).

Smokey McPot · 20 May 2010 at 20:02

Westyfield2 said:
I remember this from when they were launched! The exhaust is hidden away, and there's no massive rear spoiler.

The Renault marketing department wanted a big showy exhaust and spoiler, but the designers proved how their diffuser worked better without it. Performance > 'Style'.

Pretty sure it was evo that wrote about it originally.

And then it was proved that the claims about improved performance were fabricated and they had to alter all their literature to say that it 'provided downforce similar to a roof spoiler at very high speed'. Wind tunnel testing showed it to be at around 92mph.

Daveangle · 27 May 2010 at 10:53

I am most likely going to view/buy a 182 at the weekend it seems quite a bargain, but I am wondering what things to look out for on a test drive and other things I should be looking for on the car, it has had its Cambelt/Aux changed last year and done 66k miles but its up for 3.8k which I think seems like a steal.