Oh I laughed so hard at the names of your deadweight family, Sandie, Jackie, Rocky, & Predator the dog! I laughed because I know neighbors & family with those names! With your blend of great dry sense of humor, imagination, technical savvy, interesting mechanical & electronic themes, it makes for an entertaining show! Thanks Jimbo! Paul from S. Central Tx.
Maybe the extra weight made the suspension squat enough to reduce wind resistance under the car producing the double bonus of a smoother ride and a little bump in fuel economy? Also, this whole Renualt experience is an incredible reminder for myself and others to have fun. There really is no point anymore in trying to build the fastest car. The loudest, fat-tire, 454 swapped Nova from my youth would be a paperweight on the dragstrip next to a Porsche Taycan turbo GT. This Renualt is a hot rod in the truest sense: ingeneous, expensive, time-consuming and slightly deranged! Thanks for the Sunday morning happiness.
AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? Jimbo, I absolutely love your craftsmanship, humor... Please keep making videos! You brighten my day, and folks always think I'm a little crazy when I tell them about Robot Cantina.
In France, these cars and their predecessors, Renault 8 and Dauphine, were known to benefit from a bag of cement left permanently in the trunk, to improve handling (and safety, for those who like to keep the pedal to the metal 😅).
@@hoost3056 Someone in my area was selling a Corvair project car a few years ago. I always thought it was a rather snazzy looking car. It's too bad they were plagued with problems.
@@Slane583honestly they're not too horrible, Nader just needed to learn how to drive, as his baby, the NHTSA later confirmed when they determined a corvair was about par for the course when it came to automobile handling back in the day. But GM's reaction... that was what got them in big trouble, they went nuts trying to destroy Nader and it made his word against them gospel, to the point people ignore that report to this day.
@@vro1899 That's a fine example of speaking before thinking. Which big companies seem to be very good at doing. It sounds like the Corvair could have been successful if GM just took the criticism instead of flapping their gums. Nothing worse than a brand who thinks everything they do is perfect and without issues.
i'd like to see a car with two engines, one engine per wheel, so it would work like a limited slip differential, and if one threw a rod the other would get you home.
My daily driver is a 97 mercury villager, laugh all you want it was free and is in great shape. Anyways it has a little receiver hitch on it that has been on there as long as I’ve had it and the hitch has a drop to it so it’s kinda low but never posed a problem until I went to the nursery one day and threw about 40 bags of mulch in there. As I pulled out onto the road the van bottomed out and that hitch slammed into the concrete with such violence that it nearly stopped me and the large crowd of onlookers outside the nursery gave me the stinky eyes 🤣🤣
It isn't surprising that the extra weight didn't affect fuel economy much. I used to be really big into hypermiling and I noticed that although the engine got worse economy getting up to speed I was able to coast that much further so it ended up being a wash. I could get 70 mpg out of my Saturn with or without 3 other friends in the car.
@@Iowa599 This was during the recession so they actually did ride with me most of the time. We were in high school and didn't have a lot of money to spend on gas.
@@cobrapond In highschool, i didn't have a lot of cash, either, but mpg & fun are inversely related. my car regularly got 40mpg, even loaded excessively, but if there were 3 of my buds it wouldn't get over 25.
In Spain at 60' and 70' people call this car the "widow's car" because it's bad weight distribution made it dangerous. It seems that was usual to put one sand sack in the front bonnet to made the weight distribution better. The reverse issue seems that was very usual in this transmission.
Next time you have the head off take a look at where the valve seat is touching the valve. If the seat is on the inside of the valve you can increase low-lift flow by getting it recut out level with the outside of the valve, ie, larger curtain area. The recut vale seat should be 0.060"@45º - no less than 0.050" it hurst flow -, then about 0.080"@60º. A 30º top cut helps, and also a 75º bottom cut. You can also back-cut the back of the valve, ie, 30º leading to the 45º. Flow wise you can't gain much flow under 0.250" lift by porting, it's all in the valve and seat. I've done porting for 20 years for a performance business using flow-benches - made a couple FBs too -, so I know a bit about it.
In the 1960's entire families would go on holiday from the north of Europe all the way to the Mediteranian sea: 2 adults + 2 kids + luggage + possibly lugage on a roofrack or even towing a small trailer. It helped that there weren't very many traffic jams and there were plenty mechanics all over France and Belgium. 1 of our neighbors had a Volvo 340 1.4L (67hp) that had a 2-belt Variomatic (CVT) . They went on holidays towing a small caravan. And guess what, this 2-belt variomatic held up perfectly fine and according to the owner it makes driving in mountainous terrein a doddle. No shifting to find the perfect gear. It was always in the perfect gear. I was so impressed by that that my own first car was also a Volvo 340 variomatic. I discovered that the belts were pretty beefy ( about 5cm wide each). These days i drive a modern Lexus hybrid with, guess what, an E-CVT! No belts in it but instead it uses epicyclical gearsets. It's bomb proof reliable.
I think people get a bad taste for CVT's in cars because some happen to be totally unreliable garbage. So they avoid any car with a CVT in it even if it's known for being reliable. My friend had an older car that had a CVT in it which was known for being the better choice over the normal automatic because automatic was total garbage. But the CVT was very reliable.
I also had one in an 85 Horizon. The engine had 31K miles on it when the head warped just driving down a country highway. Weak engine. The gas mileage was good though.
Considering the aerodynamics of a brick the car riding lower probably helped with wind resistance enough to offset the penalty for the extra weight. I see essentially no difference between driving my cars empty, other than me, and with passengers.
My aunt had one of these Renault when i was a kid (early 70`s) It always broke down i rainy weather here in Western Norway (It rain 10 months a year here) Regards from Norway Love your channel! My sunday smile
I feel like Robot Cantina has a nefarious motive here. Not sure exactly but it could be anything. Could be he's like a Temu Santa Claus and he's going to convert all of our cars this Christmas.
It just occurred to me, that one of my older cars, (The first French one!) had a similar engine in that it was 2 cylinder of about the same size, and air cooled. I don't remember often carrying a passenger, nor much in the way of freight, but did some longer journey. I managed to get it up to 70 mph and it would hold it unless the hills were noticeable. At first it wouldn't because the tires were out of round. Not wheels, the TIRES. Once I threw out the Eastern block cart tires and fitted some cheap used tires I gained over 10 mph. Fun little car. I called it the Flying Banana, because it was curvy, yellow, with little brown spots that kept getting bigger.
In the era this lovely Renault comes from, we had a Simca 1000. And did have extra weight on the front axle by putting Sandy in there (Jacky was in use for other tasks) To improve steering performance 😂 Fuel consumption was 1liter for every 8km. 10 km when the throttle was handled with great care 👍🏻🤝🏻🇳🇱
Great video Jimbo. If you ever feel like a change from tinkering on odd car projects I'm sure you have a future in comedy. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? ... 😀
Nice family trip 😂 poor Jackie had to ride in the trunk with the dog in the back seat 😂. I could just imagine driving by during your picnic and wonder what was going on.
2,200 lbs happens to be the curb weight of the lightest car I've owned XD regarding fuel economy: probably mostly the carb tuning. especially on flat ground, air resistance will have more of an effect than weight. if you drive on a hotter day you'll get less air resistance.
Well I'm glad that Sandy Rocky Jackie and predator all made it safe and sound back home 🤣 I can't believe you didn't blow your top when they kept asking are we there yet are we there yet 🤣🤣 that's crazy you got better miles per gallon with more weight that carburetor upgrade plus sinking the carbs together must have really helped out because usually when you add weight you lose miles per gallon thanks for the video Jimbo very entertaining and informative and some laughs along the way 😎🇨🇦
Love these series . It would be cool to see this done with, say, a fully built preditor ghost race cart engine 😅.. I would love to see what it would do on a car because I have seen some of them race carts seriously moving 😂... Anyway , it was good to see u and the fam have a good day in the sun, lol😅na, but seriously, much respect, bro .. peace and love Jimbo , keep it rad, stay safe, and build on..l8r famz and keep having fun ✌🏽
Mr Jimbo, did you know that the French made really reliable cars before the 1980’s? My mother being a Française and she owned a Renault, she said that putting extra weight in the forward trunk made it always drive better and a lot saver. In France you have a lot of small twisting roads and the Renaults with the engine in the back especially with damp roads had the tendency to break out from behind making you lose control. So my mother told me that she use to put 25kg bag of potatoes in the front which solved that problem. Also when the car is loaded it lowers itself as we can also see in your clip, and that might lower its drag coefficient resulting in a lower fuel consumption. Maybe that is the reason it was a bit more efficient.
Thank you, sir, once again. I look forward to your weekly videos. You are truly trying to test the limitations of of your creations without immediately jumping to the most costly of modifications.( Governor removal, billet flywheel, crank, along with porting and polishing, etc.). Thank you for these little journeys into your ingenuity.
I've been able to tell a difference in every vehicle I've ever owned when I had three other adults in the car/suv. I have a mini with 250 hp and even just another 200lb copilot and it's a HUGE difference. Only in a full size truck has it been a negligible difference to the riding experience.
An external thrust bearing to fit a normal clutch to small lawnmower engines is what I'd love to see and I am sure you could build such thing! Besides that; a great entertaining and educating video as always! Thank you very much for that work you do :-) Greeting from Germany
Not sure why your videos facinate me but they do. I can't wait until the next one. Your videos are as practical as Thunderhead 289 putting a lawn mower carb on his V8 Maverick but I return every week to see your new video. Thanks all the time and work you invest to entertain all of us youtube addicts. Phil
Hi Jimbo, Just watched this video today. We were away last week and I didn't get the chance to see it. Thanks for still doing stuff on the old Renault! Have a great week.
For comparison to a modern car, the modern Mitsubishi Mirage came out in 2014. It had a 1.2L 3 cylinder motor rated at 74 hp, and weighed in at 1,973 pounds. It came with a CVT transmission that, just as JimBo stated, is known to fail before the engine does IF maintenance is properly performed. In 2004, I owned a 1996 Geo Metro LSI that had a poorly maintained 1.0L 3 cylinder that was only running on 2 cylinders thanks to a burned exhaust valve in cylinder #3. I actually put that car, in that condition, on a chassis dyno and it put down a whopping 34 hp to the wheels, in a car that weighed 1,900 pounds(it was a 1996 model). I also took it to the drag strip one day, in this condition, and it ran a 13.6 in the 1/8th mile, at 60 mph with the 5 speed manual transmission. So even with this Renault being severely down on power, it really isn’t that much slower at full throttle than some relatively newer cars.
I have loved everyone of your videos especially the diesel Kaboto ones and for different reasons this one on the twin. My background is electronics so love the use of electronic data collection to evaluate the performance . Keep up the good work from . cheers from Cape Town
Jimbo out there with another banger video. I am a little surprised you didnt kick the family out and do another drag test, just to see how effective the most recent engine tuning was.
I've been watching your videos from time to time, getting them as recommendations! I'll have to say it's impressive work what you've done with this R10. But today I feel confident in that this is a channel well worth subscribing to! Keep up the good work my friend, it's awesome😁
Back in 1957 I bought a Renault Dauphine, picked it up in the factory at Paris. Brought it home to South Dakota in 1958. It had a 27HP engine (5 Ch) and would do at maximum 70 mph on the level road with no wind. With a good head wind in South Dakota it would do a little over 40 into the wind in second gear. Only had a 3 speed transmission. Didn't last long in SD driving floor borded. Overhaul kit was about $50 at JC Whitney in 1958. Mileage was about what you were getting with the Harbor Freight engine. Maybe you should get out the old engine and see what it would do with dual carbs.
@@robotcantina8957 I saw in another episode that he bought a really tiny early 70s maybe even late 60s Honda. All you'd have to do is replace some glass and the floor and you'd be ready for your next series! Or maybe 4 Predators in a 65 Biscayne?
I love your videos. Regarding safety: the old french car seems significantly more safe than half of the death-traps of "Just rolled in", which usually have customers declining repair.
The other thing to remember about fuel economy is that weather, particularly the temperatures can have a big effect. I don't remember when Jimbo's last fuel economy test was, but it's likely that the cooler weather helped a bit.
The difference in the fuel economy numbers between tests is well within margin of error. Even with quite accurate measurement of the fuel and distance, factors like wind and other road conditions can't be completely controlled. I can't put a hard number on it, but my engineer's intuition says the margin of error is at least 1%, which is larger than the difference you saw.
My gf smoked some German tree and I started watching the video, while she was near me. It took here some time to figure out, that she wasn’t that high, but its just Jimbo being silly. In accounts of being silly: why not upgrade the wheels to some modern size like 195/45r15? That would improve handling a ton and maybe reduce rolling resistance a bit compared to these strange bike tires which are deforming a ton.
I would be crazy if I had to hear, "Are we there Yet" over and over again. Not sure how you were to complete the test. They would have been walking home if I were driving, lol.
For your reverse gear, tighten up the "flex connector" on the shift tube where it connects to the tranny input shaft. The tranny input shaft needs to rotate more when you jerk the shift lever over for reverse. You could jack up rear wheels, disconnect shift tube from and tranny and you should be able to shift tranny through gears and reverse by pulling or pushing input shaft and rotating input shaft. When you rotate input shaft for reverse you should feel a strong spring "detent" in the input shaft. I think the slop in the connector is preventing you from getting this. Hope this helps. Best Regards and Continued Success!
I love this project so much. I lean more towards this type of project because I love old cars and making them go. Im not interested in making them fast, just fun.
Growing up in England in the 1960s I was schooled in oz, lb, stones, hundredweight etc so it caught my attention when you mentioned stones and even now people here refer to someone as weighing 16st for example ( 14 lb x 16 so 224lb ) . When we watch American TV shows cops description of someone as 220 -250 lb allways gets me wondering how some weights and measurements are still useful and some not . In horses raceing the commentators say things like there's only 3 furlongs to go ( 1/8 of a mile) but they are the only time it's used like feet , yards,chains ,cables, furlongs etc .the other thing that puzzles me and my friends is the liquid measurement of quarts ,and why oil sold for cars and trucks witch use maybe 1-2 gallons is sold in such little bottles as this seems a terrible waste of plastic. For reference most oil in the UK is now in liters ( 1 ltr and 4 ltr ) containers so I suppose in the long run there's not much difference. This is not a criticism just highlighted the similarity's and different ways things have matured into after 248+ years apart. Still think a camshaft change might have been an option when the engine was apart 👍🇬🇧🇺🇲
too funny, just when you said despise cvt's in reg cars but it's ok in the renault i was thinking "this cvt sure does work better then nissan's cvt's"...
if you don't want to mess with the incredible french engineering that goes in the transmission, you could install a VW transaxle in its place (one from the beetle or the bus)
props to jimbo for unloading the entire "family" just to get the picnic shot.
Indeed, the shot took some effort.
Looks like he got the shot at his house right before loading them up. Clever
This was exactly my first thought when I saw it.
Hear hear 😊
Came here to say this.
Jimbo struggling to remain serious during the family weight bit made me laugh hard
Same! I was giggling the whole time. Jimbo cracking up is always a treat.
Oh I laughed so hard at the names of your deadweight family, Sandie, Jackie, Rocky, & Predator the dog! I laughed because I know neighbors & family with those names!
With your blend of great dry sense of humor, imagination, technical savvy, interesting mechanical & electronic themes, it makes for an entertaining show! Thanks Jimbo! Paul from S. Central Tx.
It's pretty rude to call Jimbos family deadweight
I wanted to see some blow up dolls.....😍
Haha! Dead weight family! Nice way to put it.
Maybe the extra weight made the suspension squat enough to reduce wind resistance under the car producing the double bonus of a smoother ride and a little bump in fuel economy? Also, this whole Renualt experience is an incredible reminder for myself and others to have fun. There really is no point anymore in trying to build the fastest car. The loudest, fat-tire, 454 swapped Nova from my youth would be a paperweight on the dragstrip next to a Porsche Taycan turbo GT. This Renualt is a hot rod in the truest sense: ingeneous, expensive, time-consuming and slightly deranged! Thanks for the Sunday morning happiness.
Yes, lower ride height reducing drag that was going to be my suggestion as well.
@@tbryan1697 their handling sucks but a tesla model s will do 0-60 in under 2 seconds and run 8s in the quarter mile all day.
AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet? AreWeThereYet?
Jimbo, I absolutely love your craftsmanship, humor... Please keep making videos! You brighten my day, and folks always think I'm a little crazy when I tell them about Robot Cantina.
Jimbo, you lost me at Jackie for most uplifting experience. The best one yet hahahahaha
Glad you enjoyed it
With the direction modern cars are going, this won't be the last time we see this conversion.
Thunderdome too.....
In France, these cars and their predecessors, Renault 8 and Dauphine, were known to benefit from a bag of cement left permanently in the trunk, to improve handling (and safety, for those who like to keep the pedal to the metal 😅).
Corvairs were the same way. Yes, I had one and yes I like weird cars😊
@@hoost3056 Someone in my area was selling a Corvair project car a few years ago. I always thought it was a rather snazzy looking car. It's too bad they were plagued with problems.
@@hoost3056 even Porsche had the same benefits with extra weight in the forward trunk.
@@Slane583honestly they're not too horrible, Nader just needed to learn how to drive, as his baby, the NHTSA later confirmed when they determined a corvair was about par for the course when it came to automobile handling back in the day.
But GM's reaction... that was what got them in big trouble, they went nuts trying to destroy Nader and it made his word against them gospel, to the point people ignore that report to this day.
@@vro1899 That's a fine example of speaking before thinking. Which big companies seem to be very good at doing. It sounds like the Corvair could have been successful if GM just took the criticism instead of flapping their gums. Nothing worse than a brand who thinks everything they do is perfect and without issues.
You should bolt together 4 predator's to make an V8
The LawnmowerSpecial
Someone on RUclips completed a similar project with 4 Harley vtwins. It had a huge NVH issue and took up a lot of space. Worth it!
That would 100% make for a really exciting project!
Theres a guy Lyckebo Mekaniska who built water cooled V8 out of briggs&straotton engines
He should go the Citroen Safari route and fabricate a whole new rear suspension to let the "dog" power the rear wheels to make a 4x4
i'd like to see a car with two engines, one engine per wheel, so it would work like a limited slip differential, and if one threw a rod the other would get you home.
My daily driver is a 97 mercury villager, laugh all you want it was free and is in great shape. Anyways it has a little receiver hitch on it that has been on there as long as I’ve had it and the hitch has a drop to it so it’s kinda low but never posed a problem until I went to the nursery one day and threw about 40 bags of mulch in there. As I pulled out onto the road the van bottomed out and that hitch slammed into the concrete with such violence that it nearly stopped me and the large crowd of onlookers outside the nursery gave me the stinky eyes 🤣🤣
Anyone else than me that expected four "life sized" gnome statues in the car?
I actually was half expecting that 😄
I was honestly expecting actual people. But this was far more entertaining. And indeed, safe.
It isn't surprising that the extra weight didn't affect fuel economy much. I used to be really big into hypermiling and I noticed that although the engine got worse economy getting up to speed I was able to coast that much further so it ended up being a wash. I could get 70 mpg out of my Saturn with or without 3 other friends in the car.
i bet that's why they didn't ride with you.
@@Iowa599 This was during the recession so they actually did ride with me most of the time. We were in high school and didn't have a lot of money to spend on gas.
@@cobrapond In highschool, i didn't have a lot of cash, either, but mpg & fun are inversely related.
my car regularly got 40mpg, even loaded excessively, but if there were 3 of my buds it wouldn't get over 25.
@@Iowa599 I had a lot more cash to spend on fun when I was only buying gas every 5 weeks.
@@cobrapond and (part of) why I took the back seat out of my car ;)
In Spain at 60' and 70' people call this car the "widow's car" because it's bad weight distribution made it dangerous.
It seems that was usual to put one sand sack in the front bonnet to made the weight distribution better.
The reverse issue seems that was very usual in this transmission.
This thing is way faster than an '81 Rabbit Diesel. It doesn't kill mosquitoes quite as well though.
Brilliant scripting/dialogue Jimbo, thoughtful and hilarious, thank you.
she may be about as freshly french as a bowl of onion soup with the cheese on top; but I still love it.
Next time you have the head off take a look at where the valve seat is touching the valve. If the seat is on the inside of the valve you can increase low-lift flow by getting it recut out level with the outside of the valve, ie, larger curtain area. The recut vale seat should be 0.060"@45º - no less than 0.050" it hurst flow -, then about 0.080"@60º. A 30º top cut helps, and also a 75º bottom cut. You can also back-cut the back of the valve, ie, 30º leading to the 45º. Flow wise you can't gain much flow under 0.250" lift by porting, it's all in the valve and seat.
I've done porting for 20 years for a performance business using flow-benches - made a couple FBs too -, so I know a bit about it.
There is some engine stuff on my channel with the rotary vs piston series if you are interested - ruclips.net/user/blackblackfalconvideos
Careful Jimbo, could be Gnomes, or even worse Gremlins under that trans cover.
In the 1960's entire families would go on holiday from the north of Europe all the way to the Mediteranian sea:
2 adults + 2 kids + luggage + possibly lugage on a roofrack or even towing a small trailer. It helped that there weren't very many traffic jams and there were plenty mechanics all over France and Belgium.
1 of our neighbors had a Volvo 340 1.4L (67hp) that had a 2-belt Variomatic (CVT) . They went on holidays towing a small caravan. And guess what, this 2-belt variomatic held up perfectly fine and according to the owner it makes driving in mountainous terrein a doddle. No shifting to find the perfect gear. It was always in the perfect gear.
I was so impressed by that that my own first car was also a Volvo 340 variomatic. I discovered that the belts were pretty beefy ( about 5cm wide each).
These days i drive a modern Lexus hybrid with, guess what, an E-CVT! No belts in it but instead it uses epicyclical gearsets. It's bomb proof reliable.
I think people get a bad taste for CVT's in cars because some happen to be totally unreliable garbage. So they avoid any car with a CVT in it even if it's known for being reliable. My friend had an older car that had a CVT in it which was known for being the better choice over the normal automatic because automatic was total garbage. But the CVT was very reliable.
16 min of joy and 15 days of anxiety 😢
I think you overestimate the duration of the first part
overestimate ?
it's 16 minutes _and 2 seconds!_
@@EggBastion 15 minutes of hard work to get access, 5 seconds of joy
You are, as always, quite bonkers.
Thank you for the measurements in stones.
I thought it was a French car not British, so why did you weigh it in stone ?
Like pebbles skimming over the water
I had people in a '84 Plymouth with the 1.6ltr engine. I bet your Renault goes better than my Plymouth did.
I also had one in an 85 Horizon. The engine had 31K miles on it when the head warped just driving down a country highway. Weak engine. The gas mileage was good though.
Should have gotten the 2.2L. My 84 Rampage went like stink, even with 90hp
I had 7 people in my old chevette once.
U guys make me feel like my fiero is a speed demon with all 94hp
@@srirachasauce84302.2 was a great motor. Specially in 92 Daytona iroc R/T, lotus heads and 225 hp
2:00 As someone who has been to france, what I remember most was the endless wheatfields next to the highway. So rural Kansas is just like France.
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't pack a picnic basket with wine, cheese, and French bread. Great video anyway.
Et des croissants, naturellement!
Considering the aerodynamics of a brick the car riding lower probably helped with wind resistance enough to offset the penalty for the extra weight. I see essentially no difference between driving my cars empty, other than me, and with passengers.
Reduced ride height may have improved aerodynamics enough to improve fuel economy at cruising speeds.
My aunt had one of these Renault when i was a kid (early 70`s)
It always broke down i rainy weather here in Western Norway (It rain 10 months a year here)
Regards from Norway Love your channel! My sunday smile
It was light blue with black "Go fast stripes" LOL ;)
Thanks for sharing
I feel like Robot Cantina has a nefarious motive here. Not sure exactly but it could be anything. Could be he's like a Temu Santa Claus and he's going to convert all of our cars this Christmas.
It just occurred to me, that one of my older cars, (The first French one!) had a similar engine in that it was 2 cylinder of about the same size, and air cooled. I don't remember often carrying a passenger, nor much in the way of freight, but did some longer journey. I managed to get it up to 70 mph and it would hold it unless the hills were noticeable. At first it wouldn't because the tires were out of round. Not wheels, the TIRES. Once I threw out the Eastern block cart tires and fitted some cheap used tires I gained over 10 mph. Fun little car. I called it the Flying Banana, because it was curvy, yellow, with little brown spots that kept getting bigger.
In the era this lovely Renault comes from, we had a Simca 1000. And did have extra weight on the front axle by putting Sandy in there (Jacky was in use for other tasks) To improve steering performance 😂
Fuel consumption was 1liter for every 8km. 10 km when the throttle was handled with great care
👍🏻🤝🏻🇳🇱
Great video Jimbo. If you ever feel like a change from tinkering on odd car projects I'm sure you have a future in comedy. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? ... 😀
Nice family trip 😂 poor Jackie had to ride in the trunk with the dog in the back seat 😂. I could just imagine driving by during your picnic and wonder what was going on.
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Since the car is French, Rocky should be called "Pierre".
c'est vrai ca .................
Hahahaha, my team leader his named Pierre! 😂
Thanks for a great video to watch while detoxing after a crazy costume party last night. Never seen a video of yours I haven’t enjoyed.
Yess happy Sunday Jimbo
My fav. show, Thank you old man.
2,200 lbs happens to be the curb weight of the lightest car I've owned XD regarding fuel economy: probably mostly the carb tuning. especially on flat ground, air resistance will have more of an effect than weight. if you drive on a hotter day you'll get less air resistance.
Another fun informative video. Jimbo you knock it out of the park every Sunday. God bless in all things. Lake Whitney Texas here.
Excellent presentation. Thank you. I have been wondering about the reverse issues. Looking forward to seeing your findings.
You have a beautiful family Jimbo. Glad you guys enjoy the great outdoors with a nice picnic. 😂😂
Well I'm glad that Sandy Rocky Jackie and predator all made it safe and sound back home 🤣 I can't believe you didn't blow your top when they kept asking are we there yet are we there yet 🤣🤣 that's crazy you got better miles per gallon with more weight that carburetor upgrade plus sinking the carbs together must have really helped out because usually when you add weight you lose miles per gallon thanks for the video Jimbo very entertaining and informative and some laughs along the way 😎🇨🇦
Really enjoyed getting to see your family! Also enjoyed the "are we there yet?" Very well done video 😊
Excited to see what's wrong with reverse
Love these series . It would be cool to see this done with, say, a fully built preditor ghost race cart engine 😅.. I would love to see what it would do on a car because I have seen some of them race carts seriously moving 😂... Anyway , it was good to see u and the fam have a good day in the sun, lol😅na, but seriously, much respect, bro .. peace and love Jimbo , keep it rad, stay safe, and build on..l8r famz and keep having fun ✌🏽
Mr Jimbo, did you know that the French made really reliable cars before the 1980’s? My mother being a Française and she owned a Renault, she said that putting extra weight in the forward trunk made it always drive better and a lot saver. In France you have a lot of small twisting roads and the Renaults with the engine in the back especially with damp roads had the tendency to break out from behind making you lose control. So my mother told me that she use to put 25kg bag of potatoes in the front which solved that problem. Also when the car is loaded it lowers itself as we can also see in your clip, and that might lower its drag coefficient resulting in a lower fuel consumption. Maybe that is the reason it was a bit more efficient.
Now it's time to super charge. 1 AMR 300 on each of the carbs.
Or mini twin turbos
The description of your family was a perfect blend of comedy. Bravo!
Thank you kindly!
Thank you, sir, once again. I look forward to your weekly videos. You are truly trying to test the limitations of of your creations without immediately jumping to the most costly of modifications.( Governor removal, billet flywheel, crank, along with porting and polishing, etc.). Thank you for these little journeys into your ingenuity.
I've been able to tell a difference in every vehicle I've ever owned when I had three other adults in the car/suv. I have a mini with 250 hp and even just another 200lb copilot and it's a HUGE difference. Only in a full size truck has it been a negligible difference to the riding experience.
another great start to my sunday... thanks Jimbo.
Interesting. Family bit stiff after their journey. Lol., love the whole test.
An external thrust bearing to fit a normal clutch to small lawnmower engines is what I'd love to see and I am sure you could build such thing!
Besides that; a great entertaining and educating video as always! Thank you very much for that work you do :-)
Greeting from Germany
When this project is done that engine would be great for a "big block" go-cart build, or mini dragster. 🤔 Anyway, thanks for sharing, Jimbo!
Sunday morning coffee and having fun watching Robot Cantina Renault ...
And now onwards to Project Farm!
Gotta love the family! Love the humour! 😆😆😆
Not sure why your videos facinate me but they do. I can't wait until the next one. Your videos are as practical as Thunderhead 289 putting a lawn mower carb on his V8 Maverick but I return every week to see your new video. Thanks all the time and work you invest to entertain all of us youtube addicts. Phil
Thanks Jimbo. Great to meet Sandy, Rocky and Jackie.
Hi Jimbo, Just watched this video today. We were away last week and I didn't get the chance to see it. Thanks for still doing stuff on the old Renault! Have a great week.
For comparison to a modern car, the modern Mitsubishi Mirage came out in 2014. It had a 1.2L 3 cylinder motor rated at 74 hp, and weighed in at 1,973 pounds. It came with a CVT transmission that, just as JimBo stated, is known to fail before the engine does IF maintenance is properly performed.
In 2004, I owned a 1996 Geo Metro LSI that had a poorly maintained 1.0L 3 cylinder that was only running on 2 cylinders thanks to a burned exhaust valve in cylinder #3. I actually put that car, in that condition, on a chassis dyno and it put down a whopping 34 hp to the wheels, in a car that weighed 1,900 pounds(it was a 1996 model). I also took it to the drag strip one day, in this condition, and it ran a 13.6 in the 1/8th mile, at 60 mph with the 5 speed manual transmission.
So even with this Renault being severely down on power, it really isn’t that much slower at full throttle than some relatively newer cars.
Sunday funny finest with the Zombie apocalypse vehicle preparation show. Robot Cantina is YT at its best! 👊🤙
The harmonics of the rear bumper at idle is outrageous
had to be a trip setting up that picnic. "no one drive by, no one see this, please please please, I don't want to explain it"
I have loved everyone of your videos especially the diesel Kaboto ones and for different reasons this one on the twin. My background is electronics so love the use of electronic data collection to evaluate the performance . Keep up the good work from . cheers from Cape Town
Oh yay! Happy to see my suggestion getting used. No idea if others had it or it was already in the works. But happy nonetheless
Came for the family reveal, was not disappointed
Jimbo out there with another banger video. I am a little surprised you didnt kick the family out and do another drag test, just to see how effective the most recent engine tuning was.
In the previous video we found out the car was about 1 second or so faster with the tune, however we didn't check the fuel economy.
Charming: That's the first word that comes to mind. Keep up the great work!
I've been watching your videos from time to time, getting them as recommendations! I'll have to say it's impressive work what you've done with this R10. But today I feel confident in that this is a channel well worth subscribing to! Keep up the good work my friend, it's awesome😁
Back in 1957 I bought a Renault Dauphine, picked it up in the factory at Paris. Brought it home to South Dakota in 1958. It had a 27HP engine (5 Ch) and would do at maximum 70 mph on the level road with no wind. With a good head wind in South Dakota it would do a little over 40 into the wind in second gear. Only had a 3 speed transmission. Didn't last long in SD driving floor borded.
Overhaul kit was about $50 at JC Whitney in 1958. Mileage was about what you were getting with the Harbor Freight engine.
Maybe you should get out the old engine and see what it would do with dual carbs.
From what I'm told the old engine performed pretty good. Unfortunately the engine is beyond repair and needs to many impossible to find parts.
This is so cool. I really like what you have done with the car and engine combo. 🥇🏆
Thanks for the video Jimbo !
"...the Cadillac of street legal go-karts..." I love this channel for the subtle humor 🤣
These videos really make me want to see what kind of performance I can get with a 670 Predator in my triumph spitfire
LOL, I had a '79 Spitfire for many years. Great little car!
I saw Mr Goodpliers buy your car. What a thrill!
LOL, This car has come a long way since the auction.
@@robotcantina8957 I saw in another episode that he bought a really tiny early 70s maybe even late 60s Honda. All you'd have to do is replace some glass and the floor and you'd be ready for your next series! Or maybe 4 Predators in a 65 Biscayne?
I love your videos.
Regarding safety: the old french car seems significantly more safe than half of the death-traps of "Just rolled in", which usually have customers declining repair.
2 minutes in and it's already one of the punniest episodes in the series 😂
i would love to see a new season testing various electric motors as engines !
Wow, I didn't expect a family reveal!
The other thing to remember about fuel economy is that weather, particularly the temperatures can have a big effect. I don't remember when Jimbo's last fuel economy test was, but it's likely that the cooler weather helped a bit.
Very good video… looks like you have a really solid, well adjusted family
This Honda engine performs much better then the original. Cute little powerplant and an excellent application for this oldie Renault.
This is a HOOT! Thanks Jimbo!😁
You are really getting funny in your videos Jimbo! Absolutely love your videos!
Jimbo went full loco on this one....did the guitar springs pop, Jimbo?😂
You had me rolling with the dad jokes! Keep up the great work.
The difference in the fuel economy numbers between tests is well within margin of error. Even with quite accurate measurement of the fuel and distance, factors like wind and other road conditions can't be completely controlled. I can't put a hard number on it, but my engineer's intuition says the margin of error is at least 1%, which is larger than the difference you saw.
My gf smoked some German tree and I started watching the video, while she was near me. It took here some time to figure out, that she wasn’t that high, but its just Jimbo being silly.
In accounts of being silly: why not upgrade the wheels to some modern size like 195/45r15? That would improve handling a ton and maybe reduce rolling resistance a bit compared to these strange bike tires which are deforming a ton.
Rims are impossable to find for this car because they are 3 lug. Tires are also very expensive.
@@robotcantina8957 isn’t it possible to redrill the hubs to 4x100 or something? Or make some adapter plates?
I would be crazy if I had to hear, "Are we there Yet" over and over again. Not sure how you were to complete the test. They would have been walking home if I were driving, lol.
For your reverse gear, tighten up the "flex connector" on the shift tube where it connects to the tranny input shaft. The tranny input shaft needs to rotate more when you jerk the shift lever over for reverse. You could jack up rear wheels, disconnect shift tube from and tranny and you should be able to shift tranny through gears and reverse by pulling or pushing input shaft and rotating input shaft. When you rotate input shaft for reverse you should feel a strong spring "detent" in the input shaft. I think the slop in the connector is preventing you from getting this. Hope this helps. Best Regards and Continued Success!
Awesome video jimbo. I like the family skit LOL
I love this project so much. I lean more towards this type of project because I love old cars and making them go. Im not interested in making them fast, just fun.
The doors phantom closing was a nice touch.
Another interesting installment!
Growing up in England in the 1960s I was schooled in oz, lb, stones, hundredweight etc so it caught my attention when you mentioned stones and even now people here refer to someone as weighing 16st for example ( 14 lb x 16 so 224lb ) . When we watch American TV shows cops description of someone as 220 -250 lb allways gets me wondering how some weights and measurements are still useful and some not . In horses raceing the commentators say things like there's only 3 furlongs to go ( 1/8 of a mile) but they are the only time it's used like feet , yards,chains ,cables, furlongs etc .the other thing that puzzles me and my friends is the liquid measurement of quarts ,and why oil sold for cars and trucks witch use maybe 1-2 gallons is sold in such little bottles as this seems a terrible waste of plastic. For reference most oil in the UK is now in liters ( 1 ltr and 4 ltr ) containers so I suppose in the long run there's not much difference. This is not a criticism just highlighted the similarity's and different ways things have matured into after 248+ years apart. Still think a camshaft change might have been an option when the engine was apart 👍🇬🇧🇺🇲
Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
too funny, just when you said despise cvt's in reg cars but it's ok in the renault i was thinking "this cvt sure does work better then nissan's cvt's"...
OMG that intro! Now I have coffee on the keyboard. 🤣
love the renault , the vtwin sound great
if you don't want to mess with the incredible french engineering that goes in the transmission, you could install a VW transaxle in its place (one from the beetle or the bus)
Love the well-rounded knowledge, presentation, voice, and personality! Ever considered building an off-grid cabin in Alaska?