Hi Gents,

Interested in peoples perspectives on my dilemma....

To re-shell or fix it?

Quite simply my car looks great from the outside (well good enough for a track car) however at 162k the bottom end is getting quite noisy, clutch and cambelt need doing too....on top of this, sadly mine is pretty rusty (front edges of the chassis rails, small hole in the one rail running across the back of the front arch and both front jacking points flattened...)

Oh and to top it all off, when i had the AD08's fitted the tyre bloke took my advice to avoid the jacking point.....and used the f'ing floor pan and split it from the bulk head under the accelerator pedal


Now its got loads of nice bits on it - all brand new.....B8's, Satchshift, RichW Wishbones, BakerBM Mounts, Oil cooler, Hi-Spec Billet 400's etc etc


I'm massively attached to it.....so what would you do?

1) Strip it, source a better standard Rallye and fit all the bits again
2) Try and just buy a shell and re-shell it
3) Sell it as a project and start again?

(Options 1 & 2 are a right pain as i have 2 kids, no time, and cant spend thousands getting holes cut etc etc for the Satchshift etc)

Appreciate your thoughts

Good man, i like that option too - what do people think I should budget for welding?

The main issue being jacking points, could i get some kind of box section or something put there instead that a trolley jack sits on?

Oh make no mistake i'm the same, i bloody love this car and I want to fix it - the reality is i paid £1100 for it 2 years ago, prob spent £3k on it since and can easily see another £2-3k to get it 'right'

Then i see Roland sell his S/C car for £2.5k - starts to test my sentimental logic

There's a White rallye shell on egay at the moment think it might be cj s

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Old pugs don't die they just get faster

If you love it that much fix it.

Only sold mine cheap as I needed a change from 306's after 10 years in and out of them and didn't pay a great deal when I bought it.

Damien is right and if I'm totally honest I'm bored of the Megane already and if it wasn't the fact I Liquid Yellow paint and the Recaros I'd be considering in selling it!

When your a petrol head the spending never stops on cars so just suck it up,fix it and enjoy

sell it and buy an M3

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Demondriverdan has a nice caged rallye shell for sale. I'd put it all into that and sack off the rusty one.

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See the sheer power and might of the lesser known burrowing owl.

Repair it it just needs love to be fair it is worse than mine was but under the crust theres still plenty of steel

If it was mine id fix it but would depend on you realistic budget
Will need some proper restructuring welding judging from the pics

But a white rallye rare and hard to find now unless your ryan who has them all lol

Also think how easy will it be to find a clean shell which would cost more to set or repair and once you have repaired you know its good for many years to come

P.s. if you break it ill take the bonnet skirts bumpers and tailgate

FIX IT

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Hey Dan,

I am keen to a degree, the hole in the bulkhead makes me nervous though, if its rotten there, i'm worried what other gremlins are hidden....also the cage isnt the sexiest (daft i know but i'd want to run harness bars etc) and i'm running on a shoe string...

PM me if you think its worth having a better chat about it

Cool, i wish i had the space to do that myself but that is sadly not the case...you should do a project thread!

It had an advisory for the end of the chassis rail but the hole in the picture only appeared when I poked it earlier