Project Red Devil

Well it seems as tho the R5 has now turned into my project and thus have decided to get together a project report so u lot can see what i am up to!

Picked this 5 gtt up the day before gumball:

At the mo she is tungsten grey with a red metal flake lacquer over the top wich doesnt look bad but i want her back to tungy grey wich explains the project name. lol



But on the journey back the engine overheated and blew the headgasket. So rather than pay some cowboy to rip me off and only put a std headgasket back on i decided to get my hands dirty and have a bash at the headgasket myself:

Firstly i had to remove all the piping wich was easy as fook and also remembered to take a quick diagram of the configuration to allow me to easily refit:



Mostly removed:



My living room is starting to fill up!!



New Head Gasket and Head:



Shiny!:



New Head fitted to inlet & Exhaust manifolds with new gasket:



New head back in bay:



Adjusting Valve Clearences with a feeler guage:



All Back together:



Unfortunately i wasnt as diciplined as i would have liked with the camera so i didnt get too many pictures.

After she was back up and running i managed to get a stand pass for donny and was really thinking of something else i could do to jazz her up a little, ICE of course.

So i set about ripping the small install from my 19 ph2.

Amp - 222w Sony Explode (Red Yay)
Speakers - 6x9 Mutant X & Pioneer door speakers
Headunit - JVC CD Tuner (Nowt Special)

So set about mounting the speakers in the uncarded doors and running fresh wires thru to HU:





Once that was done i then realized i didnt actually have anywhere to mount the 6x9's due to the rear being stripped.mmmmm......the floor
and came up with this:





Looks pretty cool if u ask me lol

19th April 2007

Picked up a new rear bumper off emay just cos i liked the renault lettering on the stainles:



also dunc sorted me out a std grill in tungy grey (Cheers Dunc):



and i dug out my old 19 silencer a burnt tip jap can:



i was initially going to have a side exit exhaust due to the new rear bumper but i have decided to have the jap can coming out the std exit rather than the centre exit i have now. this will mean slightly cutting the stainless plate but will look ace once done.

23rd April 2007

Well courtesy again of dunc and his wonderful deals i managed to get some more goodies for my 5 at a bargain basement price:

Front Mount intercooler + Samcos and hardpipes


Moded std bumper for FMIC


Fuel Cell:


Pick all these up on thurs/fri so if i have time i will fit em over weekend.

Going to look well smart and will allow me to run some higher boost, just need a bigger turbo :