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    Committee, South East Regional Rep James5's Avatar
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    My Meg 225 project

    About 4 weeks ago I picked up a clean black 225 megane, now the only downside to it was a lumpy drive and alot of smoke, done a few tests and no compression at all on cylinder 3 so I decided instead of rebuilding the engine I would just source a decent engine and luckily enough I got an engine from a rear ended meg 225 from a newer reg and less miles and a bonus it had the belts done in the last 2 years :-)

    Instead of alot of waffle Ill upload pics to tell the story

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    Committee, South East Regional Rep James5's Avatar
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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Compression results

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    Committee, South East Regional Rep James5's Avatar
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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Strip down ready for engine removal

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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Engine number 2 all parts swapped over and going back in

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    Committee, South East Regional Rep James5's Avatar
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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Back in and kinda running De-cat only fitted not attached front section yet.

    https://youtu.be/_QqepEMMv1A

    Still got a fair to do list yet


    1. Hydraulic clutch bleed,
    2. Driver side Driveshaft fitment,
    3. Driver side swivel Hubs fitment,
    4. Drop links both sides replace
    5. Drivers side Brakes re-fit,
    6. Drop links front replace,
    7. MOT

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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Great project James. Was the car cheap enough? Wouldn't mind one of these as a future project.

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    Committee, South East Regional Rep James5's Avatar
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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Cole View Post
    Great project James. Was the car cheap enough? Wouldn't mind one of these as a future project.
    Yeah the car was pretty cheap but having done what I have done the cost soon add's up.

    Still need to work out how to bleed the hydraulic clutch on it,

    spent a couple of hours this afternoon, on it

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    Committee, South East Regional Rep James5's Avatar
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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Went down the yard for 2hrs yesterday

    managed to get a few thing's sorted did start the bleeding of the hydraulic clutch using an easy bleed brake kit ok it's better but still needs alot more bleeding as peddle not quiet 100% yet.

    List left to do now


    1. Hydraulic clutch bleed,
    2. Lower Drop links N/S/F side replace,
    3. Fit N/S/F alloy
    4. MOT

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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    My clutch bites quite high up. I think it's bled ok though.

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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Same here, the bite point won't change as the clutch is self adjusting

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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Well Meg's done after the massive job I had to do managed to cover 38 fault free miles. Now to book MOT


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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Well done mate!

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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Looks sweet!

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    Committee, South East Regional Rep James5's Avatar
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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Now sold :-)
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    Re: My Meg 225 project

    Not surprised...

    You're the new Bigg's... Buy it, sort it, sells it...
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