i am owner of one of them ( number 27/50), for the moment i don't know an other one for sale, my be you can search on cliotrophy.ch website but i am not sure than is steel working, after that i can help you if you want some advice
i received last week an e-mail from universal hobbies, they are not interested by this project.
from otto i had received the same email than you hoolio
from NIOREV no response
from JACK RACING , i am waiting to.......
some different kind of welding are existing, and some of them don't create enough heat to damage the dampers.
for the moment i am thinking to refurbish my dampers......may be i funded a work chop able to do this near my home.
in the same time i am searching equivalent dampers.....i found 182 cup...
in order to give some informations, to obtain the perfect configuration, the best way will be to drill two new holes and full the two hold holes.
i am thinking that group buy will not be interesting because i can't have sachs technical data, optimiz can't help me and the modification are more...
after discussion with optimiz one of the measure on dampers give problem, as you can see on pdf, you have to know that original dampers are 96 mm insted of 102 mm on the new on, so it's not as easy as we can think, first hypotheses we have to drill only one new hole to find 60 mm than 54 mm but...
no problem i will send the second one picture by email to optimiz, i would juste show you what i find directly on my dampers because there are some little difference on quotation, i suggest to keep in mind an acceptbale tolérance from optimiz mesure (may be more or less 1 mm)
good job, i totaly agree with you philfree, if you are sure about your cotation, i propose to send all the specification ( yours and mine) to optimiz acces in order they check them directely on dampers end confirm if it's ok or not.
if you are not sure, on my side or someone else, i propose to...
Optimiz acces has a set of Sachs dampers with 54 mm and offers for a group purchase only to modify them to 60 mm by a professional miling shop in oder they will be ok for clio trophy.
For the moment the twice front dampers are 750 euros .
does anyone try to install sachs twingo on clio trophy?
if i understand,the only main différence is 54 mm for twingo than 60 mm for clio.
i am thinking that it would be easy to transform 54 mm in 60 mm with drilling unit and a good drilling cutting tool
the twice cars are very beautiful, i bought an other clio williams last week, a good idea for Christmas day but it is for my son and she is in 1/43 scale ;)