Sepherence

Great car! Loving the WIP thread! 👍

Hi all! (hopefully the correct forum for this post?!), Some of you may have seen my recent post regarding me finally getting my RB5 back on the road; As per my introduction post... I suffered with the transmission issues when driving home last week after accelerating hard from a stand still for the first time, I had driven the car hard with the new lump installed several times within the last few weeks but never from being stationary. I have a little 1/4 mile strip o/s my business and thought after sorting the all the teething problems it was time to see what she could do.... Stuck me back in my seat with a smile on my face, felt amazing having some power under my foot once again however once on the residential highway, a 1/2 mile later and "dad driving mode" re-activated i could hear a strange noise coming from the car. It sounded like a rattle/knocking noise, the car at this point was still driving normally (apart from the sound). After a few miles on the motor way (and lots of sounds!), i seem to loose gears when trying to pull from the slip road... I managed to pull away in 3rd and get home... Ive not driven the car since this, its been parked up! symptoms: Rattle noise when clutch depressed in neutral, noise disappears when pedal pressed. Started the car tonight from cold and seem to be able to select all gears normally, clutch bites in its normal position. noise is a “rattle" as opposed to a "whine". noise gets louder when clutch pedal is depressed and gear stick is pulled towards gear (especially with 2nd!). you can feel it on the gear knob. couldn’t select gears at one point when on route home last week, wouldn’t dare let go on clutch pedal in second!! I have had two people give me their opinion, fist mechanic says clutch release bearing and second guys saying gear box - i really don’t want to spend money on the wrong parts! what are your opinions? links below for a couple of videos, they’re not the greatest but you can hear the noises if you try... (excuse my french on the second vid...)

Cheers for the advise Stuartie, amazing what you can achieve with an aerosol can! :)

ive a tin of Matt black ready to go! thanks for the response! ill have another look tomorrow morning... Thanks for the welcoming! ive had such a rough time with my car, owned it for around 9 years but only had a few months driving in total... once ive finished these last bits ill be sure to share my WIP on the forum... :)

Hi all, the photo isn’t my car but it highlights my issue! My cars been sat up for a long time and ive just got her back on the road... the body work has kept really well considering, however the rear window panels seem to be going back to chrome due to the sun! I’m looking to remove them and re-spray however i can’t seem to get them off without the feeling that they are going to bend! Any advice on how to remove without causing damage? Any advice very much appreciated as id rather not spray them on the car!.. thanks