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Offline TurboFource

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #15 on: Saturday,November 12, 2022, 03:49:48 AM »
Interesting, never heard of it before.
The more I do the more I find I need to do....remember your ABC’s …anything but chinesium!

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday,November 16, 2022, 04:38:22 AM »
Hello,
there is this manual, for mounting the 807/20 kit to 807G.
But it is written in French.

https://www.jacques-assurances.com/wa_files/Guide_20competition1973.pdf

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday,November 16, 2022, 11:13:20 AM »
Thank you.
Sixty-four pages long, but many are not related to the engine.
I will see if it is possible to translate the engine section using web translation.
I am less confident of being able to capture the images and charts intact.

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday,November 16, 2022, 08:00:04 PM »
Not simple to translate as I am not at all a French speaker.
Making headway, but even after translation some words remain ???
For example, "Chemise" = "Shirt", which I think is actually cylinder? (Pistons-chemises)

I will continue the effort for quick reference but should probably expect to do a fresh translation directly from the original document before trying to order parts.

There were a lot of parts available beck in the early 70's.
I wonder what remains available today?

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday,November 16, 2022, 08:06:52 PM »
Chemise kinda works for a liner or "sleeve" since shirts have sleeves but I wonder what they call a piston skirt?  :)

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday,November 16, 2022, 08:11:17 PM »
Crossflows were used in all sort of racing series from rallying to single seaters.  I would amend your statement to "many different types of parts were available" but not many of each actual part.  807-12s and -13s were not common though "around".  The actual racing engines were indeed "available" but were few in number.

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday,November 16, 2022, 09:11:28 PM »
My translation effort has hit a stumbling block as I do not know how to extract illustrations to transfer to the new document.  :confused:
Never had any "Nerd" classes in school as they were restricted to only the "Teachers pet's" way back then.

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #22 on: Thursday,November 17, 2022, 04:25:16 AM »
voir l'image

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #23 on: Thursday,November 17, 2022, 04:30:57 AM »

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #24 on: Thursday,November 17, 2022, 07:40:57 AM »
Ah! Piston skirt!  :)

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #25 on: Thursday,November 17, 2022, 08:40:45 AM »
"A picture is worth a thousand words"!  :coolpic:

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #26 on: Thursday,November 17, 2022, 09:48:47 AM »
. . . I wonder what they call a piston skirt?  :)

Sounds more like a Scottish thing.  ;D

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #27 on: Thursday,November 17, 2022, 09:50:59 AM »
Not simple to translate as I am not at all a French speaker.


Me either.
What about one of those on-line translator sites where you upload the file?

Like this one?

https://www.onlinedoctranslator.com/en/translationform

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #28 on: Thursday,November 17, 2022, 10:51:13 AM »
I tried repeatedly on Google Translate. It accepts PDFs and Word docs, then happily produces a "translated" doc, still in French. At least the pictures stay in the right places. I wonder if my work IT infrastructure blocks something. Anyway, here: https://translate.google.com/?hl=en

Oh, you have to split the original file in two to get under their 10Mb limit.

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Re: Renault engine "Tuning manual"?
« Reply #29 on: Thursday,November 17, 2022, 07:06:23 PM »
I'm thinking there should be a way to make the original PDF editable?
From there I could substitute the translated text.
Translation app I have been using is limited to a thousand characters at a time.