The newer bumper is now receiving some attention.
The newer bumper and headlights are from a Clio that was a track car and was being broken for parts. It had a cold air feed fitted to the passenger side fog light. It was a slightly odd design as it had a metal plate that had been curved and shaped to fit in the fog light cover area with a long hose attached that presumably went to the air intake. I am not sure why a hose was not simply attached to a duct in the fog light hole. The front bumper also had a quick release mechanism on the slam panel and a clip either side of the bumper by the wheel arch which I would guess was for a bumper quick release system.
I gave the bumper a scrub on Sunday. The paintwork felt really rough and after using some fallout remover it was quite clear that the bumper paintwork could so with some TLC. When the bumper goes back to the car I might give it a bit of a polish. I used some Meguairs Ultimate Compound on some sections on Sunday to remove rust marks and a general dullness in the paintwork, most of the imperfections are coming out of the paintwork.
We have decided that although the holes in the centre section of the bumper look bloody awful they are going to be covered up by a number plate if it is on the road, or a show plate if it is on track. The bumper came without a support section that sits behind the holes but we have managed to salvage that part from the old bumper.
The newer bumper came with a Renault badge that had been wrapped with a carbon fibre vinyl wrap which was looking worse for wear. I had picked up our old glass black badge off the grass at Snetterton so swapped the badge over.
@EthanMenace has printed some more fog light brake ducts for the new bumper. These have been printed in yellow.
@Beany has been very kind and sent me a tow eye cover to replace the monstrosity that came with the bumper. I will swap that over when the bumper goes back on to the car and stays on the car.
Our Yellow RS badge that sat on the passenger side of the upper radiator hole in the bumper did not fall off the old bumper so that needs to go back on to the newer bumper.
The clips that were on the side of the bumper as part of a quick release mechanism have been removed which will leave two small holes either side of the bumper. The bumper has a few marks that I will sort out with a paint pen.
The next issue to resolve was that we had lost all of the clips that the headlight screws screw in to on the bodywork. Ethan sorted those out by using a few rivnuts.
The headlights will go back on to the car soon.
We have a list of things to do but the car is coming along nicely and will be ready for Cadwell Park in a few weeks. Some of the bigger things to do are:
- Install the crutch straps for the harnesses
- Possibly move the battery from under the passenger seat if it gets in the way of the crutch straps
- Put in the new DS1.11 front pads and Godspeed G hook discs - which have been ordered and should arrive by the weekend
- Fit the Corvette brake ducts
- Fit Aerocatch pins to the newer slam panel
- Test fit the track wheels and if the Ozs don't fit get some MRFs (from the parts bin) put on to the second set of Speedlines
- Get an alignment done so the crazy negative camber can be reigned in.