A Real Dauphine !!!

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Steven Swan has taken his Dauphine out of mothball, and is in the process of getting it back on the road. A bit of competition is intended. His son Malcolm is also now driving it.

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What a beautiful beast. thanks for sharing Ray and dragging Steve out of retirement. Cannot let real talent hide away so welcome back Steve. And great to chat with you today Ray.
 
A couple of oldish shorts of one of the first try outs. It is now on the road and being De-bugged and should be going to a trackday for a proper shakedown soon.
The engine in the car is Liz's old 1397 from her 8 before it was upgraded, once I get the car to a stage I am happy with there is a state of the art Dry sump all steel 1700 to go in. Should be interesting in a light car.


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Malcolm and I went testing on Sunday. All went ok, but got a hot coil, so have an issue with either the coil or the Lumenition box. Had to change tactics and do 1 run at a time and let it cool for 10 mins between runs. It feels good and I need to sort out a few small issues and get to the circuit to really give it some welly.
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Best S
 
I don't know the weight of the particular cars in the photos, but the bigger wheels and engines do add some weight. I expect less than 700Kg. My road registered 16TS powered 4CV is 665Kg with quite heavy wheels, bigger gearbox, bigger aluminium fuel tank. The 145Hp 1600 alloy engine only weighs another 20Kg more than the original 21 hp 750cc one.
 
The 26M of Steel tube also does not help, but I guesstimate from the cornerweights it is around 730kg. once the All steel 1700cc Cleon fonte is in with the dry sump bits it may be around 750kg with hopefully 190-200 BHP should be lively!!
 
Had to sweep the toybox floor the other day

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The 8 is not mine. I built the back end for it nearly 2 years ago and it ended up coming back to me in Oct last year to be finished. On the last lap now Maybe....

You can read all about it on https://turborenault.co.uk/threads/renault-8-gtt.177494/ all 16 pages of it

While I'm on a roll with the links thing my workshop blog in the same place is https://turborenault.co.uk/threads/how-not-to-make-your-dauphine-handle.177834/page-13#post-1208774 which contains most of what I know,have learnt about old Renaults over the years. My old website is also there in the archives section incase you want to refer back at https://turborenault.co.uk/forums/8-gordini-workshop.402/ it is a bit out of sequence, but it's all there.......... even if I'm not....
 
Nice one Steve, Very nice looking Car. looks very balanced .....

Thanks for the links.

Ray
 
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