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I had heard a wild rumour to the effect that although Michelin no longer list them on their site they occasionally do runs of their last Energy tyre in that size that are very quickly snapped up, going to car clubs in France, and outlets like Feu Vert, but I have no proof. I would love to know...

I would seriously consider putting a larger carb from a dauphine or R4 on it. Trying to tune tiny tiny carbs, especially seventy year old ones, just does my head in.

Many R4s have the same inner cable as a variety of bicycle brake cables. It would be worth taking the broken one to a bike shop.

If you have metal top and bottom tanks might be worth getting the existing one recored. This is standard practice in Australia.

Excellent work!

There are two types, earlier sheetmetal and later moulded plastic but they are both interchangeable. Likewise for the fan there is the much more desirable later nylon one or the earlier sheetmetal 6 blade version. On Ebay there are a couple of US sellers of Wheelhorse 250 ride-on tractor parts...

I don’t trust epoxies etc unless you can do it in a laboratory. Two ways I would do it: People do weld or braze fuel tanks provided the tank is entirely filled with water. Alternatively if you cannot find anyone to do that, weld or braze a large flange to the sump plug outer, then fix the flange...

That “9” is too squiggly to be a nine, looking at it close up I’d say it’s an 8 that hasn’t been fully stamped. So I’d say it’s definitely an early R1128. Let’s see the diamond plate.

I actually bought a pair from a wrecker but found with the booster on the front brakes I didn’t really need it and shelved the project at that point. Still got the calipers

Do you know that Subaru cars from the late 1970s/ early 1980s also had disc brakes with the handbrake being on the front disks, and a similar disc size to Renault 4s, 12s etc. Might be worth investigating that if you are interested.

Hold on, was the car originally imported to go on the 4L Trophy, or are you intending to take it on the 4L Trophy yourself? If the latter I’m kind of not surprised, insurance companies are wary of that stuff and reckon you can afford it. I imagine it’s different in France because going in the...

I'm really impressed by your work on this, it's going to be a great little car.

You should try selling to Goodwood Revival types, it's potentially quite historic. Or a Christmas present for wives to buy for their husband with a D type...

She’s finally joined the cool crowd. Took her long enough!

Addendum- Looking back at this, I fitted a dual circuit (3 output) master cylinder, to turn my early single circuit into a dual circuit car, but because early cars needed an outlet to fit a brake light switch which the later cars don't have, fitting that switch used up the extra outlet hole...

First of all, I believe you have dual circuit brakes. Three outlets means one to the rear brakes and two to the front brakes. The two outlet cylinders (one to the front, one to the rear) are for much earlier single circuit cars. Some two circuit cars have four outlets, two to front, two to...

A locksmith ought to be able to cut a new key if he can fiddle with an example of the lock. Are all the doors and ignition the same key?

Sorry, I'm on a roll here. Just found the same site has the following page that goes through all the terminology (for 750/4cv/dauphine variations only) but you get the gist. http://www.4cv-renault.com/technique/ac/ac.html Going back to the other table, I think they have conflated the french...

Ah ha! (well, sort of...) I found this site and in some ways it tallies up very well with the above and in others it just misses. http://www.4cv-renault.com/technique/tabmot/tabmot.html The table there lists all the Billancourt variations but lists Renault 6 without an 800 dash number, but it...

Thanksvery much for the cam data Angel. I think I saw some valve lift data on a French site years ago, I might go looking and see what I can dig up.