Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: Welcome to the Renault Fuego Forum
Welcome to a new forum that hopes to help and promote the Renault Fuego.
Now becoming more collectable in Europe, South America, USA and Australia the Fuego is a worthy car deserving classic acknowledgement.
There are many Fuego fans out there and we hope to promote enthusiasm in restoration, general enjoyment and encourage people to aquire the car that for value has more "bang for your buck" than most of that era.
We will list as many Fuego sites as we can in Links.
You have to join to post messages-it only takes a minute or so-just go to Join at top right of page.
We have changed heading to Classic Renault Fuego to separate from other URLs. Hope nobody minds.
We have also added a Gordini and Alpine section at bottom of page which we feel will add to Forum.
If it wasn't for the race engineers, who were not very busy at the time, the Fuego would not have been such a great handling car. The "dead" rear axle geometry was done by the race engineers and is still recognised as one of the best ever "dead" rear ends in a road car.
Location: L'avenue de Bréauté, Dieppe - not really!
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject:
Hi again... yes, I've got to agree about the rear axle and the balance of the Fuego in general. I was surprised when I found that Fuegos would not just understeer off the corner with the application of more throttle. In fact the first one we had could tighten its line to a degree with more throttle squeezed on around moderately tight mountain type corner. I attributed this to the great disparity between front and rear tracks and the other measures Renault had used to keep front weight to a minimum while still providing a comfortable and very well equipped (for the time) 4 seater hatchback.
My daughter's Turbo (that's the R16 engined type with a blow through carb - the only one in Australia - well maybe not! there may be 2 others !!) had terrible straight line traction in the wet, and when rain became less of a novelty here some months ago, we changed the original 14 inch BBS wheels for a set of 16x7 inchers. Stacks more grip but maybe twice the weight. So now its grip is fantastic, but the accelleration in 1st gear is reasonably hopeless - a combination of flywheel inertia and the taller gearing/extra rotational inertia of the heavy wheels.
Never mind.....the other gears are quick enough to surprise many of her mates who have 'accepted' fast cars. _________________ If it wasn't mine I think I'd have to steal it.
Last edited by renman on Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:59 pm; edited 2 times in total
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:55 am Post subject: e-mail
Warren found my Fuego page on the Renault Ring at Katriina's Renault site and dropped me a line. My first Fuego was a rebuilt wreck and was a little ugly. It went 200k + miles before succuming to rust. It needed new carrier bearings and a complete new interior by then as well. It went to a guy wanting to build a 1600 cc R8.
My second Fuego is white, also an '82 model and was apparently garage kept most of its life. It has almost 200 k miles on it now and shows very little rust. It has had very little winter driving. I'm in the northeast USA and salt is used on the roads to prevent icing.
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