Renault Fuego Turbo

[DaveL485]

Owned this for a while...probably 7 or 8 years. Sadly is has been neglected and left for several years due to other commitments. Time to resurrect it....
It's not your average Fuego, (if you would ever class these things as average), it's an 825kg stripped out and caged one, being hauled along by a Reanult 21 Turbo engine.

Thought it'd be rude not to document it's resurrection.

Out comes the lump.



And the box....and in goes a new one.





And the engine



Clutch hydraulics and Brake Master had seized too so new Brake Master and Clutch Master went in with a new Clutch resovoir as that had split too.





The power steering packed up before it went out of action, we changed the rack and it wasnt that and we didnt know what pump it was.....I still have no idea!





So I chucked it and started adapting a 21Turbo one on





Some new belts (Cam, PS and Alt) and fluids (PS fluid, Oil, Tranny oil)



Nothing to fix here .....well..... Nothing here to fix!



The windows dont work lol



Running for the first time in 4 years, and the power steering has returned









New oil cooler lines....



New fuel lines....



Swirl pot, pump all attached.





Some surface rust cleaned and treated too.

Next episode....plumb the brakes back in, new discs and pads, new rad and rebuilding the front end. :agree:

[DaveL485]

Some pics from it's pre-sabbatical days.

[LouD86]

Lovely, nice to see a well used Fuego. There is a picture in the family albums of me sat on the open boot window of a Fuego at about 2 years old, jeez the struts were good! I miss Renaults 80/90's turbo cars!

[f1nn]

I remember this car from a photo shoot at Bruntingthorpe for Performance gti magazine around 2004/2005 (I was in the black VTS doing the comparison test with the C2.

[DaveL485]

f1nn said:

I remember this car from a photo shoot at Bruntingthorpe for Performance gti magazine around 2004/2005 (I was in the black VTS doing the comparison test with the C2.

Yep that was me

Hi!

[refoman2]

all that work you would have thought you might have painted the engine and ancillaries rather than re-fitting it all rusty!

just my opinion

[psychoR1]

Looks awesome!

[Spitfire2]

refoman2 said:

all that work you would have thought you might have painted the engine and ancillaries rather than re-fitting it all rusty!

just my opinion

Why? Does paint make engines work better?

[jonesof63]

Somehow I was expecting a standard car when I saw the title of your post, showing my age now, I had a brand new Fuego Turbo and a Fuego 2.0 two years later, both served me well and back in the day were quick cars.

[TVR Sagaris]

Brilliant. Looks Quattro-esque on the outside.

[DaveL485]

refoman2 said:

all that work you would have thought you might have painted the engine and ancillaries rather than re-fitting it all rusty!

just my opinion

Built for go, not for show

[VinceFox]

Had a silver c reg fuego turbo years ago, loved it. Lots of little details that made for a surprisingly good car. Fast too, for it's time.

[vrooom]

wow, what a car. is this FWD?

[stanthebiker]

I had a Fuego way back in olden times. Great looking car of it's time, also won Car of the Year I believe.

[refoman2]

DaveL485 said:

Built for go, not for show

lol so are the majority of race cars but you dont see that many with a sheddy looking engine under the bonnet! its taken you this amount of time to get it back up and running and you cant be bothered to make it look good all round,why would you do that? looks like a bodge job,wonder how long it is before its on ebay lol

[DaveL485]

VinceFox said:

Fast too, for it's time.

You should try this one, 825kg, 250hp, 310lb/ft, and slicks.

vrooom said:

wow, what a car. is this FWD?

Yes, as you can see it uses the R21 UN1 transaxle. I'm just trying to strike a deal for another box with a Quaife ATB :P

If it's not dry you're wasting your time in any gear below 4th, it just lights up the fronts You car hear that here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtS6OnonaO4&fea...
Excuse the spin, it was wet and the brake bias was waaaaaaay to far to the back LOL

[Robmarriott]

Didn't know you had this Dave! Looks awesome.

[DaveL485]

refoman2 said:

lol so are the majority of race cars but you dont see that many with a sheddy looking engine under the bonnet!

Are you going to sponsor me like a Race Car then? So I have the budget they have? Maybe you'd like to sponsor my other classic Renaults too.

And as for eBay, i'd rather burn it and crush it than offend it with an eBay sale. If you don't like the car, may I politely suggest you sod off and find something else to criticise

[VidalBaboon]

I'd love a Fuego Turbo

[DaveL485]

Braved the weather and cold to make more progress.

Have a brake pedal now, albeit spongy, but thats just some bleeding. One of the back calipers has a broken bleed nipple though not too pleased about that!

Ran it the other week and it decided to howl fuel out the back....



Return pipe from the swirl pot:



Fixed



Found a better rad.... it had, as it turned out, a 1.1 Fiesta Rad. I found a sturdier one that was fittable from a MK2 Golf GTi 8v, with a bit of pipework extension.



Once the bits of pipe I have ordered arrive I can plumb it in and run it up properly, ready for a test session at Silverstone on the 17th Feb


Front end reassembly under way, rad piped up....we're getting there!









New fittings going in, the old lot was held together with some real wierd threads and fittings so I got rid of most of it and used a bunch of RivNuts and M6x1.0 bolts





Almost ready....just a temp gauge to install after the capillary one broke the fitting and the brakes to bleed after fixing a broken nipple (ooo-er!)