Clio 16v F4R

[markey b]

not mine, but i'm building this for a friend, only spent 6 evenings on it so far, pretty straight forward swap. just gotta get engine back in after some parts arrive, then wire it up and fingers crossed should be quite fun

[markey b]

[Os8472]

Get abit carried away with the black paint did we lol

[markey b]

making the dials work... didn't get many pics as i had to concentrate, but here is a 'during'



and an after



now just a few ECU wiring niggles and should have it working, but we got cooling system all sorted using 172 pipes, 1.5 dci rad and a slim fan in the post
few bits to tidy up, and hopefully soon it will move under its own steam

[Mr Raider]

Good work mate, - keeping busy with another project!

[markey b]

it runs! all the issues were sorted in 20mins last night... missed an earth terminal off the engine loom - doh!

[Tony Walker]

Great work

[r5_scotty]

did you have to make / mod the exhaust mani ???? only im looking at different manis for this conversion onto a five. sorry for the rookie questions

[Lewis]

Zoet racing will do a custom manifold for this conversion in a 5.

Here is a copy of the email they sent me when I enquired.

"We can produce another manifold like the one on the picture.
The small problem is that we make it fit to the engine and sub frame on the car.
When this is stock we can produce another.

The only requirement is that we need an original manifold to produce it from.
So you can sent yours, and we fit it to an engine and sub frame.
Or we can supply an original and rebuild it. We use it from a Clio 2 16V from 2000

When we buy a manifold and rebuild it, it will cost you 1400 euro ex shipment, when you sent yours we will take 500 euro of.

With kind regards

Zoet Racing"

[markey b]

did you have to make / mod the exhaust mani ???? only im looking at different manis for this conversion onto a five. sorry for the rookie questions

we used a standard ph1 172 manifold, and k-tec decat, had to convert to manual steering as it goes over the rack rather than under. all the 172 mounts were used and bolted straight into the valver shell. only tricky bit was the wiring but thats my niche so thats all done, best bit is the working 172 clocks

[markey b]

my work is now done, starts, runs... drives!





172 dash all working, VVT working, fan working, wasn't too bad in the end

Just needs the exhaust to arrive from decat back as its pretty loud, and then prep and painting then its off for MOT and tax

slightly unrelated but this was the chaos last night finishing it off amongst other things

[jamie_clioGTT]

awesome work! you no your getting abit of a crazy scientist reputation

[James5]

Mark top work and well done

So what's the next project?

[markey b]

So what's the next project?

if you look on the last pic you'll see a 106 gti... and i have a spare GT3076..... hmmmmm lol

[Tony Walker]

One of my customers with a subaru brought his own oil in..... same as that stuff in the can by the looks of it and paid well over £100 for 4 litres.....

[Ricardo]

Well done Mr B

Does look nice in blue on those OZ wheels, are they the wheels off the Clio 172?

[markey b]

One of my customers with a subaru brought his own oil in..... same as that stuff in the can by the looks of it and paid well over £100 for 4 litres.....

Those cans were £30 each, he had 3 :-S

[markey b]

Well done Mr B

Does look nice in blue on those OZ wheels, are they the wheels off the Clio 172?

Yea we just swapped wheels over and realised they didn't look too bad :-)