Well its taken a long time this conversion ....ill do a quick rundown(copy and pasted from other forums).
The engine i got off a member off here called winston ...i had a box full of pipes from another engine i picked up which had an overly skimmed head
The car is my first car had it for 3 years ive called betty ..originally a 1.2 -
My clio before i took it off the road -
So i took it off the road after FCS 08 for the conversion.
I got engine out ..was greeted with this-
As you can see ..pretty rusty ..it then got welded and patched up..new inner wing,treated and sprayed gloss black.
After that ..treated subframe ..painted it with a anti-rust paint -
Engine on frame-
Then engine into car -
This is my dash ...custom made by me for weight saving :lol: -
Also all pipes on and intercooler pipes chopped to size -
Another pic -
Also the water de-gass pipe has been straightened up since that pic.(thanks to rob@backyard for pointing this out )
The car runs now ...got it running during the week ..then reco came round for the initial startup ...it ran ...it misfired and cut out a few times ...followed by a few carb explosions.
I forgot to get the camera for the running vids :lol:
So after reco left i got some pics.
Exhaust fitted-
And some random pics of the engine-
I then got the front bumper on ...and got the back back onto the wheels as the oils are all in the car now and all wires have been tidied away -
Intercooler will be pulled up more as the pipe going to the carb was off due to cleaning the carb in this pic-
Since then i went and got spark plugs from halfrauds ...opened the packet and it had 6 Spark plugs in it ... so my mate reco (who used to be a mechanic) measured them up ..made sure they didnt knock when turning the engine over by hand ....we went to start it up and it was coughing and puffing ... so yesterday i pulled all the spark plugs out and took them back to halfords and got my money back lol ...Got myself a set of plugs off a clio gtt owner who had a new set sitting for £5 So im currently waiting on them.
So thats a rundown of the project to today