I'm STILL not bored!! No really!

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Right, while I'm on the subject of finding strange things in magazines.....I've just noticed this. Got a magazine from January 1991 which has a test featuring the VW Golf GTI 16v, Rover 216 GTI Twin Cam, and also the Renault 19 16v. Two pics that I thought were slightly strange......

Where's the bonnet vent?!!?

And where's the heatshield too!?! Confused

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:43 pm

Probably took the heat shield out to make it lighter! Very Happy

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 1108

Surely putting the vent in would've made it even lighter again though.....because it's a hole Laughing

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:57 pm

Streamlining

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Its just a guess, but it could be a early production model that basically got thrown out the factory to be used as the press car and has little bits and bobs missing from it,

iv got early stuff and the car has not got its bonnet vent either,

iv got an early XR3 article and it can be seen that the rear lights clearly dont fit properly lol Laughing

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it would be heavier with the bonnet vent Exclamation

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Yeah roddy, I think you're right. I think they just hadn't invented it yet Laughing

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140bhp is wrong power figure as well.

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Gentle Ben wrote:

140bhp is wrong power figure as well.

That might have been the figure renault gave them at the time.

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wheres the orange coolant bottle aswell... Rolling Eyes

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Bonjour, that is a french valver, the 16S, a lot of the phase1 16s's did not have the bonnet vent, in fact i think they only put the vent onto the ph2's but not 100% sure on that.

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oh I seeeee. Yeah there's a side on pic of it in that article too, and it's got a 16v logo where the side repeaters should be. I seem to remember a conversation about that in another post at some point

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simonds1 wrote:

oh I seeeee. Yeah there's a side on pic of it in that article too, and it's got a 16v logo where the side repeaters should be. I seem to remember a conversation about that in another post at some point

Yeah, I think side repeaters are a UK requirement and therefore the cars on the continent got 16v badges where the repeaters would be

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cheeky french feckers ,they have done a chet by not putting a vent on the bonnet . wolf under sheep skin like Laughing

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Might have been a wolf at the time. these days its more of a labrador.

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pre cat euro 19 has 140bhp 7200rpm limiter and no vent.

The later ones had the cat and 137bhp and 7krpm limiter. Although my pre cat black 19 had a 7krpm limiter, but the co was adjustable.