preRS Clio M9 Clio 16v -no not slamber related 🤣

[Justin..]

Been on this forum a little while now, so guess it’s time I shared what I’ve been up to with my Clio 16v


Started out with a 95 clio 16v with a 2.0 williams engine which I bought with a view of just tidying up and keeping standard except a few cosmetic mods.

 

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First couple of jobs I did were , sealing sunroof and dyed the headliner.

 

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I bought another Clio 1.4 auto for £100 to pinch some bits off of to have powder coated as some of parts are shared.

 

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It was shortly after this I moved house to a place with a garage so I brought the car home to work on. However I don’t think it liked it as after a few weeks of being sat in the garage it decided to wet itself and lose all its coolant. I decided to take the engine out and tidy it up as I wasn’t fond of the colour scheme and wanted an oem looking engine bay.

 

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Once the engine was out I gave the engine bay a wash and decided to strip it all out and paint it

 

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Now that the bay was done, I built up the suspension and subframe to be refited with new parts. Some genuine, some not. Just depended what I could find. I used some -35mm springs.

 

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Now it’s time for all that lot to go back on the car

 

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Had my hubs dipped and plated and fitted new bearings. I also refurbed the calipers with new seals etc and bought all the parts for 285mm brake kit. I had to order some discs off French ebay as that’s the only place I could find the r21 txi discs. No picture of those though

 

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Started looking at the engine finally, it’s was a bit of a state, there was a big blob of chemical metal on the back side of it so I decide it was scrap. I bought another 2.0 bottom end but a f7r 710. From an early Megane coupe. It was at this point I decided to do another turbo conversion.
I’d sent a lot of stuff to the powder coaters which I had picked up

 

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I sent the engine away to be honed and decked. I had them remove 0.5mm off the top because I’m fitting Megane 225 pistons and Meg 250 rods. The crown height it 0.5mm lower on those pistons, this is why I had them do it. Got it back, put it on the stand and gave it some engine black paint.

 

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Some of the engine parts I could not clean at home so I took them to my local powder coaters and had them vapour blast them. That came back like new. I was really impressed and the price was very cheap. I gave them a coat of lacquer because I didn’t want them to corode too quickly

 

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Stash of engine build parts piling up

 

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Bit of engine assembly

 

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I bought some 172 cup turinis to fit and then decided to fit 172 front suspension with some 197 brembos with brackets for them, refurbed & painted them yellow and got some 300mm scenic discs. So bought again all parts for that even though I’d already got new 16v parts lol

 

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Engine went in with the help of friends and pizza

 

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Fitted the turbo and some pipework etc

 

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Looks mint! What kind of oilcooler are you running on that one? I still need to get one for mine. I guess you are running a thermoplate aswell by the looks of it?

 

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It’s a 10row oil cooler I think. Cant remember exactly lol and yeah on a thermostat sandwich plate

 

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It’s a 10row oil cooler I think. Cant remember exactly lol and yeah on a thermostat sandwich plate

Nice! How long lines are you running ISH?

 

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Haven’t got a clue mate sorry