Bianca Ratlye

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So, it seems that time had passed by me a little. Getting ready for a wedding will do that to you, as will important project work!


Anyway, in she went for her MOT last week on Friday and.....



FAIL.

I had noticed during my pre-mot checks that some underseal was hanging off on the drivers side chassis rail. Closer inspection revealed that some f**kwit had jacked it up there in the past at the front, causing the material to deform and form a water trap. Not cool. Result was a small hole 5mm x 20mm. Knowing about this, I figured it was worth lobbing it in for the MOT to see what else was wrong, declaring the hole. Answer was nothing much, except the hole.



There is deox gel on there which is why it looks odd, as i was treating the bulk of the rust. Most of the second skin had to come off as it didn't look too good.

So home she came, or rather to a friends house. Since I work for an engineering company, I obviously know some people who can weld. His next door neighbour rather handily has a pit, so we borrowed that to clean the area up and weld in a patch.



Work in progress.



Self Portrait:



Can't find a finished picture of it, i'll tag one in later.

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Anyway, went back in for retest today and passed with no issues. So, thought it rude not to celebrate by adding some fuel in it and caning it home.

Then of course, even more rude not to start adding the goodies that are hoarded in my garage to the car, such as these...


During fitting, to ensure wheel clearance was ok. Theses are 335mm 2 piece Compbrake (iirc) discs with Renaultsport Brembos and custom brackets, complete with new brake lines to suit the banjo fitting. Just running standard Renault Pads for now.

Only issue was the drivers side union seemed to need to go super mega tight to stop weeping, but seems all good now.

The finished article..


Noticed a few issues, such as i need to swap out a leaky passenger driveshaft seal and do an oil change, just need the time. The brakes need another bleed to be tip top and obviously need some time to bed in. They've been in my shed for a long time so were very rusty.