Potential new LY F1 owner

hope it all works out,let us know how you get on..

 

Good luck for Saturday. Hope it's a nice dry day for it.

Seems everything checks out.

Be interested to see if it was on private plates before it went up for sale. I only wonder as I spotted a LY R26 a few weeks back only yards from my front door and I've never seen any 225's near my house.

It was T30 SPT, quite a distinctive plate and remember thinking that looks very clean. It was a sunny day so the LY looked amazing.

 

Glad it all went to plan

 

Well done there, glad all has worked out for you, now enjoy it

 

Yay !!!! Awesome

 

Yes mate !!!!!! Stunning !!! Thats a lovely maserati 2.0 in background.

Get ureself a build thread started. :-)

 

If exhaust is what ure after i would highly recommend k-tec full 3" exhaust. Its just a work of art and sounds amazing .

 

Lovely maserati! Meg looks mint too! Can' wait to pick up mine.

 

Looks like its as mint as hoped for..brilliant.

What are you looking for with mods?..power,or noise?

Changing the exhaust wont give you much power,and the noise from the F4RT engine is never going to be a sweet one.
Some exhausts can make it droney.

If its power you want,then a remap will give you a far more urgent car ,without changing the exhaust.

I would personally get a RS Tuning stage 1 done.
These guys have a faultless reputation in Renault tuning.
The map has many years of development,making it feel like a factory delivery.
My own car has a stage 1,that has been on the car for 6 years,without missing a beat.

It made 265hp/285lb/ft with no mods on RS Tunings rolling road.
Night and day performance increase.

Its widely regarded that the engine in the 225/R26 ,should be kept below 300/300, for reliability issues..

The R26 has such a sweet chassis,i really dont think for the road you need to mess with the suspension...i know it rides a little high..but its so balanced the way it is.

IMO after years of owning one,i think quality fluid,and a premium pad like Carbotech XP8 will make the brakes tireless,if you are going to up the power.

other than that..premium boots like ADO8R or PS4, and the must have Shortshift to eliminate the weakest link in the package...the vague gearshift,will then give you a balanced performance package, that will hang with most cars on a twisty road.

 

I have just this week had a full motul brake fluid,and gear oil refesh,as well as a full geometry reset.

It does shock me how powerful the brakes are right at the top of the pedal from cold with XP8`s with new fluid..
Gear oil has made the change slicker,but the biggest difference is the geometry reset.

I was suprised by how much it was out,considering it has not been smacked,or bumped against any curbs etc.
Sharpened the turn in by a ton.

Basically,even simple things can make a huge difference to these cars.

 

Phase two short shifts are a bit more involved than the phase ones.

Some machining needed or find someone selling a modded one.

@andrewjeffs is the man to talk to re short shifts.

Cars looks gorgeous. I love LY sooo much. Infernos my second choice obvs..!

 

congrats on the car, nice Re the short shifter - there are some posts here on the subject and a couple of us have started the ball rolling with markoc using a spare sourced from another forum member. We only got the first one sent over today to start the process but will let you know how it goes if interested? Alternatively, I think K Tec do one which includes the whole new mechanism rather than modifying the existing one

 

ktecs is a direct copy of mine,but you do get the entire mechasnism,so its actually not to bad a price considering the part alone from Renault is £130.

When i get some spare time at work,i will find out any linkages we have left,and was going to send them to markoc.