Renault R8 (what's that?)

[ChrisOne]

Thanks for the comments

@ The Norwegian: the Simca 1000 is a legend in France also, any pics/thread to share? I missed a Rallye 3 then years ago... But I bought an NSU TTS instead

@ rice4life thanks, me either

[ChrisOne]

Some more work on the engine:

[The Norwegian]

Thanks for the comments

@ The Norwegian: the Simca 1000 is a legend in France also, any pics/thread to share? I missed a Rallye 3 then years ago... But I bought an NSU TTS instead

i suppose i could make a thread but its not going to be lovered or any thing

[ChrisOne]

The car is back at home:



We can start working on it, adding some parts that were prepared before





Some of the fixation parts were missing/broken, so a bit of work to make that car great again...











It starts looking better



to be continued...

[white out]

Amazing build.

[ChrisOne]

@white out: Thanks! I follow your threads you're also doing a fantastic job on your cars.

It is not the same kind of engines for sure, to be honnest I run a 4.2 V8 or a 5.2 V10 as a daily

Chris

[ChrisOne]

A few more pictures:

Some parts that will be usefull for the engine have been sandblasted:









Then it is time for some artisanal powder coating







20 minutes at 110°C in my industrial owen



And it is ready to serve...









I (re-) found a set of vintage wheels, while digging into my stockpile...



I think they will be fine on the car...

to be continued...

[ChrisOne]

Some more work on the R8

Today I worked on the windshields

First on the rear, with a new seal



In place




And the worst part, the chrome inserts...



A nightmare to put into place...



Then on the front...



There are still the instruction like the gearbox grid, and cold start instructions



In place



The chroms will wait a bit on the front...

To be continued

[ChrisOne]

The engine starts to get closer to the car...

A new clutch in 170mm that was the ideal match between the V85 flywheel and Renault 8 gearbox



Some cleaning on the housing bell



The rear axle, is removed to improved it a bit



I used 1 cm spacers between the gearbox and the rear axle, that lowers the gearbox, and the center of gravity of the car. It was a trick done on rallye cars back in the 60's/70's



Back on the car again (took me some hours to remove, rebuild, replace it...)



Everything seems to fit correctly now



to be continued...

[The Norwegian]

this just looks better and better

[ChrisOne]

Thanks!

[ChrisOne]

The rear reinforced engine support is now installed



Since the springs are shorter than the orginial ones I had to modifiy the "retention bands" (parts that limit the suspensions travel/spring decompression)



Since the engine is not the original one, there are some adaptations to do, like for example the lateral supports, that are not exactly the same:




Not a real problem, I took some iron



Drill (well placed) holes in it



And then sprayed it



As good as if it was the original parts




to be continued