renault 5 gt turbo,

[Darkslider]

Hey Sleepercell thanks for those suggestions, although like you say hard to find and some of those are a bit older than I would've liked. Looking at cars like 106 xsi, 1.4 16v corsas and polos etc. Seems it's hard to break the 100 bhp limit in less than a 1.6

[TEKNOPUG]

Mate has a rebuilt F plate one - totally standard appearance; reprayed, new rubber seals, wheels, interior etc - looks like it's just come out of a showroom. It's running 18psi and has been well set up - also on cut slicks. Lots of fun in a "you might want to brake before we get to Adenau Forst, as I don't fancy spending my last moments alive upside down, in a French milk carton on wheels" kinda way....

[minimatt1967]

Fire99 said:

minimatt1967 said:

Tuned by Porsche, I bet they kept quiet about that one, it was only blessed 119bhp, 4 more than the GTT!

Not wishing to be pedantic but the phase 2 with the watercooled turbo had 120bhp..

Atleast 4 of my friends owned one from one time to another.. One had had a bit of a home tune-up job and was a bit of a PITA... Onother had a Pace Intercooler, Decent Stainless Exhaust etc and never missed a beat in 2 years..

Was running 15 second 1/4 miles on mild boost upgrades with a heavily pregnant lady at the wheel..

Bit of a Marmite car IMO but i thought they were ace...

I'm not knocking the car itself, I just found the power figure a little under-endowed for the sporty-top of the range model, especially when my mates GLE had 107bhp!


The idea of one with power upgrade appeals to me...... a great sleeper
particularly a 440 turbo

[bales]

OllieBirmingham said:

I had one when I was young(er) and stupid(er). The thing was on its last legs, and full of rust and filler, but had been extensively tweaked so had about 180bhp and no interior to speak of. Not much will stay with one up to about 50mph ish... RIP.....

I have a turbo'd 205 gti with no interior, and pretty much everything will keep up with it up until 50mph

I always liked R5's but I think they are only really any good for straightline antics as they really don't handle that well and the engines are notorious for reliability when they run higher boost.

[richyb]

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Definately. I think a standard one in good condition would be worth a lot now. The 'max'zd crewz' have a lot to answer for.

[chris_w666]

SleeperCell said:

Suzuki Swift GTi 1298cc I4 NA 101bhp

I always fancied one of these but even years ago they were a dying breed, I almost bought a 1.6 saloon version with 4 wheel drive at around the same time impreza's were hitting the road thinking I would get 80% of the impreza experience

[euromarble]

this my one guys:

[jdw1234]

Thats lovely!

[euromarble]

[quote=hora]No offence to anyone who loves the 5 Turbo but I remember what a girl once said to my bestmate 'it was nice at the time but things have changed'.

shes rite, thats why i have one of theses too!!

[euromarble]

one more, the two of them nose to nose!

[markCSC]

Sort of off topic but not by much...

Has anyone converted a FWD Renault 5 into a RWD Turbo 2 replica? Or is there a company that does it?

I've been thinking that a mid-engined Renault 5 with a hayabusa turbo would be nice.

[courtster]

They have a soft spot in my heart - my dad had a silver 1987 S1 from a year old, then he chopped it for a brand new 1991 S2 in tungsten. I remember the S1 would never start from hot... I read why once, but can't remember now...

I remember a road test in Car magazine in 1989 with the 205 GTi, GTT, XR2i and Nova GTE. They stated that the steering was even more direct than the 205... Also I remember the tyres were almost bespoke at the time 195/55R13 Yes 13" - Imagine finding those now. That was another reason for the amazing 0-60 time.

It's a shame they've all been ruined by the boyz. I've seen the odd mint garaged from new example around 5k now.

Edited by courtster on Friday 8th August 15:56

[DamoLLb]

markCSC said:

Sort of off topic but not by much...

Has anyone converted a FWD Renault 5 into a RWD Turbo 2 replica? Or is there a company that does it?

I've been thinking that a mid-engined Renault 5 with a hayabusa turbo would be nice.

i remember from my Max Power reading days a 4x4 'cossie' lump one. The next mag had a pic of it up in smoke!

I belive the head line was 'all four wheels kicking up st'

[Jaguar steve]

courtster said:

They have a soft spot in my heart - my dad had a silver 1987 S1 from a year old, then he chopped it for a brand new 1991 S2 in tungsten. I remember the S1 would never start from hot... I read why once, but can't remember now...

I remember a road test in Car magazine in 1989 with the 205 GTi, GTT, XR2i and Nova GTE. They stated that the steering was even more direct than the 205... Also I remember the tyres were almost bespoke at the time 195/55R13 Yes 13" - Imagine finding those now. That was another reason for the amazing 0-60 time.

It's a shame they've all been ruined by the boyz. I've seen the odd mint garaged from new example around 5k now.

Edited by courtster on Friday 8th August 15:56

Mk 1 and 2 were both terrible hot starters - especially if you'd really been caning it. Caused by fuel evaporation from the carb due to heat soak. There was a factory mod to fit a small fan to blow cool air onto the carb. Didn't work very well.

[chuntington101]

have many people fitted injection to these engines?? just thinking the 1.7 had injection.

Chris.

[Shropshiremike]

courtster said:

I remember a road test in Car magazine in 1989 with the 205 GTi, GTT, XR2i and Nova GTE. They stated that the steering was even more direct than the 205... Also I remember the tyres were almost bespoke at the time 195/55R13 Yes 13" - Imagine finding those now. That was another reason for the amazing 0-60 time.

They had a good one in about 85 or 86 as well against the 205 GTi and CRX. The 5GT won that one as well.
They also did a group test with the 11 Turbo at about that time but put it against the Astra GTE, Golf Gti and XR3i.

[exgtt]

Christ must have been p1ssed when i started this topic, i cant remember doing it!?

There have been one or two attempts at fuel injection, dunno the ins and outs but cost was always £2k plus so not really worth it - a properly set up carb aint too bad.

The 1.7 lump is strong, but i think people have trouble getting big power out of them (200 plus bhp, 1 bar plus boost) I think the injection system limits boost. Most people kept the 1.4 for 200+ bhp.

That a lovely looking 5 above, they need to be kept standard body wise. One day i'll be able to afford a sunday car and it will probably be a 5 - there soo bad there good!

[Epimetheus]

Pigeon said:

First Turbo 2 I saw had the number plate TUR 802...

When I was at Uni in Manchester in the early 1990s I used to see a white Turbo2 with the reg TUR80 2. I think that reg plate's been round the mill a bit as it's always for sale on one auction site or another.

[MonkeyVR6]

I'm thinking of buying another one...I had one a year ago! Shame on me, the wife is going to go crazy.

[blot]

Ah good old 5's, mobile barbecues, have had a lot of fun and a lot of fires with them over the years