Hi Everybody!!!!!!!!!


As most you know I use to own a very nice Liquid Yellow R26 for over 2 years but sadly I couldn't sell it for what I wanted for it so stripped it for parts at the beginning of this year.

2018-08-30_03-01-00 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr


Stripping Megane 225/R26's is nothing new to me as I've been doing it since buying the Liquid Yellow R26 as I like to know how a cars put together so what better way to learn than taking one apart right?


Anyway back on track, I've just become the owner of a track prepped 225 Lux. The car has some very nice parts already fitted such as the BC Coilovers, Megane R26.R alloys and Renaultsport Sabelt bucket seat to name a few.


20180828_201547 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

So what's the plans i here you cry? Well I've just finished breaking an accident damaged R26 and have taken the following bits from it to put on the 225 Lux

Screenshot_20180830-145919 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

*R26 rear beam (has Anti roll bar fitted unlike 225 Lux/Cup models)

*R26 steering rack (believed to be different from 225 Lux model)

*R26 Front Anti Roll Bar (21mm compared to 20mm found on 225 Lux)

*Standard bootlid and spoiler

*Nearly new Fuel Pump

*Milltek 2.75 Exhaust system

20180830_133517 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

20180830_133318 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr


20180830_133318 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr


Other plans are to Sell the R26.R Alloys And Carbon Fibre R26.R spoiler to fee some cash up for Decat, Intercooler, 630cc Injectors and Remap.Should be good for 270-280 bhp and similiar torque figures then

Nice. The only things i found of value on the last car i bought was a couple of quid in change in the ash tray

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Goldie the track car.

Keep the updates coming Ash

Thanks mate, really didn't want to break it but got sick of timewasters so it's fate was sealed

No, I don't see them either.

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Goldie the track car.

No pics for me either

So I've got some time off this week and in between painting/DIY I'm hoping to do some bits on the Megane.

First up was changing the boot lids over. The one that came on the car when I bought it had a genuine Carbon Fibre R26.R spoiler that I sold to raise some funds for other goodies for this project.

After said spoiler had been removed and sold it left some unsightly holes and glue residue from standard 225 spoiler.

20180906_172410 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

Que me digging through my pile of parts harvested from a previous R26 that I broke and 10 mins later we had a new boot lid fitted with no more nasty holes! Still need to solder all wires up etc but looks better already IMO

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Only other thing to report is that the postman kindly dropped some Powerflex ARB bushes through the letter box. These with all the other Powerflex goodies I have I hope will make it onto the car sometime this week/month/year

20180924_154203 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

Ash, what did you originally have it for sale at? Just showing a couple of the lads at work and they asked me.

cheers

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Bianca 306 Rallye.
Mondeo Titanium X.

So the buying bug continues! Spotted these on a Facebook Megane sport page and had to have them as they were silly cheap.

20181006_210302 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

Those who know the Megane 225/R26 range know that the cars already come with Brembo 4 pot calipers as standard so why buy these I hear you cry?

The ones pictured above are actually from the Megane RS 250/265/275 range and are bigger and as I keep telling the missus bigger is always better right?

The kit in production means I can used the 340mm discs from the 250/265/275 range for better stopping power over the standard 225 set up.

Looks great Ash, everytime I see that photo of your old Liquid Yellow R26, I feel more and more need to sell the XSI and get one of them

So been a quiet few weeks on the megane front but the parts for the 250 Caliper upgrade have turned up!

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Sadly I've had to re-order discs as the ones from ebay were wrong


But never the less I've been doing a few minor things with the car.

First up was the purchase of some engine bay bling to cheer me up.
20181108_151232 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

Next up I spent a morning tidying up the garage and found a few old Forge goodies that came off my old LY R26 I'd forgot about that can make their way onto the car too.
20181108_151147 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

Other than that I've been sorting a few issues out on the car. On the drive back from previous owners the speakers barely worked and it was rather unpleasant with no tunes on the way home.

I decided to have a look at what was causing this when i was greeted by horror number 1!
20180828_193738 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

So removed the dodgy screws and clip to see horror number 2.
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Wires just tided together! So raided the parts bin and had 2 original speaker clips to solder into place with a bit of heat shrink to tidy it all up.

Dug out some standard speakers and jobs a good un.
20181107_134952 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

Final thing was to swap the cloth door bin over for a leather one I had in the parts pile

Before
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And then after
20180828_195009 by Ashley Gourlay, on Flickr

Plans are to get it into the garage over the winter and start fitting the performance parts ready for track days next year!

I'm growing a bit of a soft spot for these too

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Goldie the track car.

Try one they are great. If you can buy a R26 as the LSD and suspension tweeks transforms them