Ian

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me and a m8 have brought a renault 5 gt turbo, for a fun/track/1/4mile car.

it cost us £500 with lots of spaire parts, turbos, new bucket seats, etc etc

anyone know anything about these cars and lives around the cambridge area?

blot

Don't live anywhere near but do know from experience that you should buy a fire extinguisher beofre anything else!

rtoc.org is the place you need to be,more info than you can shake a french stick at there.

Billgtt

Tony, you just had a fetish for setting fire to yours

DaOne, as the main man says, RTOC - The Renault Turbo Owners Club is the place to go. You'll save your membership fee at least 187 times over in the first year. We also have various 1/4 mile and track day events all over the country/Europe that everyone's welcome to attend.

spireite

I had one on an E plate when they first came out .All i can say is it was good at the time , if you Know dronnie bypass i beat a 3.1 ltr capri up it but lost back down . id say theres a lot of potential in it

chris singleton

One of my all time favourite cars..............

I'm certain at some point I will own one

As above, get over to RTOC, cough up the membership, well worth it

logiclee

Mate used to have one in the early 90's, it ran a hybrid turbo and a few other bits for around 200bhp.

Wiring for the little fan the cooled the carb melted and set fire to the engine bay.

Cheers
Lee

lestippp

They are old and made by Renault so be ready for it breaking down ever 2 or 3 miles but then if you only use it for 1/4 miles at a time you should manage about 8 before it goes t*ts up. Then again you will be revving the engine doing this so it will probably blow up half way down the first run

On a serious note they were pretty legendary in their day but I would only have run one with a warranty. That said if just for fun don't see why not

Billgtt

Strange. I've had one of mine for nearly 8 years and it's never broken down/blown up. My other one is a gtt coupe that i've hammered on track days for the last few years and that's been fine as well. Don't believe the stories, they're bomb proof if you treat them right

vindaloo

At one point they were THE car stolen to joy ride in. Quickly eclipsed by the Fiesta RS Turbo.

One I saw... <wince> was described as excellent condition but the price was a tad low, £1K below list. It was... Smashed, grabbed, littered with small pieces of steering shroud plastic and had 7 owners. - For a 2-3 year old car! Best of all was the immaculate brass plate on dash "Thank-you for not smoking".

On the plus side of things. They aren't very sophisticated, can you say "carburettor". They don't run much boost as standard. Prima managed to shoe-horn a 1.7 litre engine in and retain the turbo installation.

J.

logiclee

Please don't mention the robbing, rip off scum on a reputable forum such as this.

No one should ever, ever go whithin a 100yards of Prima Racing in Nottingham.

Cheers
Lee

Suuba

Quick things. Run out of puff after 115, carb lets them down to a degree but the famous words that R5 owners utter are "look after them and they'll look after you"

Billgtt

100 yards? I'd say 100 miles, just to be extra safe!

B0DSKI

iTrader: (17)

Had one want to race me on the A12 when i had my CTR, he sat on my **** at about 85 MPH then after i pulled into lane one, he shot off like a bat out of hell.

5-6 Miles later he was on the hard shoulder with plumes of smoke pouring out of his bonnet!!

Mind you his baseball cap was still on straight when i went past.

fivetide

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Mate had one a good ten years ago. In a year it scoffed four headgaskets and then someone tried to nick it. Got shut because he needed a car he could at least use occasionally.

Fun but i would have thought tempramental by this day and age! Still as a track car probably as good as anything else out there.

5t.

davegtt

Agreed with the above, keep it serviced and looked after and it shouldnt go wrong. the key really is keeping the fueling set up correctly and watch the cooling and you wont have a problem with headgaskets, no different to any other car really apart from the fact its 20x more fun than any other car

Ian

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any one around the cambridge way know anything about them, or where i cant take it for a check up?

jjones

had one for a few months,it was quite rapid for what it was. the funny thing was tho how loads of people would move over to let you past, happened all the time in the little r5.

it was crap on fuel and big on smiles.

Billgtt

As stated already, go join rtoc and you'll save your money ten times over in no time at all. There's people on there all over the country who'll gladly help fellow members out with there cars for a few beer tokens

Ian

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my m8,who is in on the 5 with with me, in a member on the forum (paid) but he is on holiday at the mo, but will be back next week, will ask him to put some posts up then on the rtoc forum

Hol

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It wasn't black was it??? It sounds like one of mine.



I had two of the things. If you know what to do, some good gains will be made. If you don't know what you are doing you can pay top dollar for cheap parts.

The 1.7 Engine mentioned earlier, was the 440 Volvo Turbo lump. Which donated its clutch as a GpN part!!

Go on the forum and see if you can contact Bruce, I think he is still the club chairman.

Billgtt

Bruce hasn't been "Head Honcho" for about a year. It's now Chris "Miller"

blot

Has it burst into flames yet?

Don't listen to Billgtt, I've met him and he is actually into MG Metro's

Billgtt

Blot, you're telling me you'd say no to the same MG Metro?

blot

Only if it had stupidly wide body panels bolted on to it in an agricultural fashion...

bpm1588

owned one of these 17 years ago.a pearl white 86 and it was my first car ......many a good memory but a few bad one's as well.in short like above you will have a love hate realationship for sure but all in all brillant craic.
i had mine for around 3 years or so and the most costly problem was needing a gearbox.but you were constantly needing small jobs done though i was 17 at the time and i don't think the engine cooled down once.80'000 miles in 3 years was and still would be a lot for me.
just make sure when you need wheel bearings and clutch cables buy genuine parts.

green un

i had 2, first one was a cracker the only thing that let go was the turbo, paid a few g's for that one too on a h reg.
then i found this-

couple of hundred quid, hybrid turbo, paddle clutch, bit of boost this was a propper bone shaker. It blew the head gasket so i changed it along with new stem seals then sold it to a mate he then busted the turbo and the bottom end. he got a replacement engine and turbo then sold it on. the logbook must of had 15+ owners on it lol. the car had been looked after in its earlier days but when it got to me it had enough.

you get what you pay for with these motors