R5 front end on Renault Extra van

Here's a potatochop of one so you can see; I think you need the whole lot (bonnet, bumper, wings & grille) to be honest.

Well, I got the Ebay van. All I need to do is figure out how to fetch it back from Cornwall.

Looking into train/ coach options on the morrow. Then I will need to make the van pay for itself by doing plenty of tip runs in leiu of hiring skips.

Then I might be able to tidy it up & have some fun with it. It does mean delaying the repair of the 5 on the drive but might mean that (if it proves reliable) shift the Saxo.

I had to google to find out what they sposed to look like i'd forgot! lol

But found this



;D

Here you go.. a pic i found of one with a R5 front end!

These Vans do look good, Always thought they was a good looking van.

Now how about something completely different...!

Right, that's sorted then.

It's deffo being done. No bad boy bonnets tho. Speaking of which, has anyone got a phase 2 bonnet going spare? EDIT. Bonnet provisionally sorted


Not sure what to do about the grille. I could buy one but as it is fairly flat I might have a go at making one from sheet metal that I have lying around. How would unpainted titanium look?

Stage 2 is to see what injector pump it uses. If it's a bosch one, then SVO here I come. With the odd tank of free aviation fuel sorry I mean injector cleaner officer it should be quite cheap to run.

Anyone got any ideas about lowering the front of these? I assume they run harder springs than R5s due to a heavier engine. I guess it's prolly best to get out the angry grinder & start chopping coils rather than trying to fit shorter R5 springs that will be too soft.

Back I guess is the same as a 5 I.e. torsion bars.

Stage 3 is to start reading pages about giggle gas. Watched the 5th gear the other night on Dave about diseasels on gas & looks like fun.

Finally, was this engine available in Turbo form? I dunno Kangoo or Clio or sommat? Conversion or engine swap?

Getting a bit nervous now. This will be the longest trip I've been on to fetch a car. My last purchase was only about 30 miles away, before that was a 200tdi Defender that ran better than the 300tdi Defender that we drove down in to collect it.

This one is a bit of a long way for me 147 miles. Still, should all be grand. Is there any last minute things I should do/remember/take?

Got money to pay for the thing, insurance kicks in at 13:00 to legally drive it. Have diesel written on the back of my hand to remember what to put in it. Tow pole in the Defender just in case, bottle of screenwash cos nothing annoiys me more. Anything else?

Take a big sticker that says diesel to put on the fuel cap... a mate got his first petrol car for 8 years a few days ago and the other day he put a tenners worth of diesel in haha..

Cool, glad to here it made it back ok reading all these threads of ebay cars that turn out ok is tempting me to have a go to (this will probably end in tears, again!)