My Clio172 turbo build

[birrew]

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Hi guys

Im a total newbie to turbos and build threads so please bare with me and there maybe alot of silly questions

Well Ill with how the car is just now, I bought an 03 plate 172 year ago and half after having me having a 05 plate 1.2 extreme.

as always started with suspension I went for FK Highsports



whiteline rear arb



once they were fitted I had to change the standard wheels so bought a set on seedline turini's and had them paint in nissan structural grey



later on I bought a ktec induction kit to get rid of the viper that came with the car and a ktec stainless steel stealth exhaust with decat, anyways after a 6-7 months of loving the car and going to track day with guys on cliosport.net a caught the track day bug and went away and bought rear cage track wheels and tyre and harnesses. But with me working weekends it wasnt going to be feasible so started selling all the parts of in the new year.

I always had the thought of turboing the clio from the minute I bought but never gave it much thought but recently one of my mate stu robertson superchargered his Ph1 sunflower which just put the turbo right back in my head then someone mentioned to me the Steven Lang was selling his turbo set up from his 225 power cup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHFU0g-Rerg

So I've ended up buying whole set up more or less, which is a F4R block with megane internals, megane head and td04 turbo with down pipe and link pipe to a 172 exhaust system which I only picked up last night





Also heres a couple of picture how the clio is just now



http://s1249.photobucket.com/user/bi...tml?sort=3&o=9

[birrew]

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been having issues with my exhaust blowing for the last few months and I've stripped it out and repositioned it, yet it starts blowing a few weeks later

So it happened tonight again so decided to find the cause of the problem which turned out to be a knackered gearbox mount



so luckily i had a set of vibratech uprated mounts waiting to be put in when I doing the conversion,

so I installed them bit of a pain but what a difference already car feels alot more solid with hard acceleration

[birrew]

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Well a few parts coming through the door in the past couple of days,

turbo oil feed pipe


bottom end gasket set, will only be using the sump gasket and water pump gasket as i have no clue what the rest are lol


All new millers engine oil, gearbox oil and motul coolant


​and also dropped my engine mount cam cover and alternator brackets off at powder coating to be done in silver this is the before picture


Hopefully I will be able to get up to start to put the manifold and turbo on aswell reseal the sump as it had a slight leak at my mates next week, as I dont have a garage to do it and he was kind enough to loan me his garage to do the build and help pick up the engine and turbo from Steven Lang

[Tutuur]

great project mate! these turbo'ed 172's keep popping up more and more!

i feel a good market coming for Scoff's 02m conversion

[birrew]

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great project mate! these turbo'ed 172's keep popping up more and more!

i feel a good market coming for Scoff's 02m conversion

Got to ask what is scoff's 02m conversion?

[Matt@CodeRedMotorsports]

VW gearbox conversion.

[birrew]

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aww never heard of this before maybe worth a think later

[Cupman]

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Nice engine you got there!

[Tony Walker]

[birrew]

been a while since posted in here

so finally put the car off the road so i can start the build

how the car started


after 1 night


day 2 engine out




had the weekend off as i work weekends

but heres how it is after tonight


engine back in


now just to rebuild wire and plumb it up and all is good to let scoff work his magic

[allanr5gtt]

what inlet manifold is that? maybe 225?

[birrew]

what inlet manifold is that? maybe 225?

Yeah it's a megane inlet and head on a f4r block

[birrew]

more parts turned up today,

new slimfan and hopefully the rest of my intake setup


also picked up cup alternator set up from a mate on Cs

[birrew]

I know I haven't kept this upti much

But the car has had it's ecu fitted and mapped at Efi by Chris

It's results were 246bhp and 266 lb/ft before the standard fuel pump give up so safe to say I'm happy with the results just need to sort me brake issue out then install my walbro pump and take it for map adjustment

Couldn't thank Chris enough he's been great highly recommended

[Matt Cole]

I know I haven't kept this upti much

But the car has had it's ecu fitted and mapped at Efi by Chris

It's results were 246bhp and 266 lb/ft before the standard fuel pump give up so safe to say I'm happy with the results just need to sort me brake issue out then install my walbro pump and take it for map adjustment

Couldn't thank Chris enough he's been great highly recommended

Pretty typical for that engine so all seems good. I reckon you should be able to squeeze another 20bhp or so on that turbo. Mine used to fly mate. Are the pistons out the meg or have you gone forged?

[birrew]

Pretty typical for that engine so all seems good. I reckon you should be able to squeeze another 20bhp or so on that turbo. Mine used to fly mate. Are the pistons out the meg or have you gone forged?

Got to change to a walbro fuel pump first so hopefully get A few more out of it when that's in, and its the pistons out the meg, will be looking into forge setup's soon as a precaution lol