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Its all a matter of opinion really Maestro Man and any Maestro owner should know that. Don't go a bomb on the smoothed off door handles but if its done well..........well lets see. As for lowering it and slipping in a 1.4 Silki, I'm with you there. I prefer the comp look myself. Hopefully these 2 pics show what I mean. The first is from the Irish R4 site (hope you don't mind? and the second is from a French motor sport club site. The car is a 1.4 Alpine/Gordini engined hill climber owned by Fred Gestinoux I think. I googled around his name and actually found the results sheet for the 2003 Mont Ventoux (famous for British cyclist Tommy Simpson dying on it in the 60s) hill climb. M. Gestinoux was beating some pretty fast machinery that day. Not one for the slow car club I don't think. Is that two negatives making a positive?
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I lowered mine a few days ago. After "slipping" in the bigger engine it became a necessity. Handling improved A LOT. I kind of resumed my experience in the "Saggy Torsion Bars" Thread. Lowering is not a very smart idea if you use the car for other purposes, you should watch your ride height very well, since lowering just lowers the center of gravity, it doesn't pre-load or stiffen the suspension in any way, so you will be easily topping the suspension if you add weight. There are of course Coil-Over Shocks and other stuff, but goes extra :wink:
malcolm
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I'm planning to bung a 1.4 "moteur" into a '68 Renault 4. Sounds like a very sensible plan. Do you have the 5 speed gearbox as well? There are some useful posts here (find with the forum search link in the navigation at the top) about that. The 1.4 engine should fit in GTL with just a little messing around with the throttle cable arrangement.
ops: OK folks, looks like I'm outvoted!. I hope it all goes well Silki. Let us have a look when you're done.
