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I'll get some more pictures up over the weekend once I've tidied stuff up but quick update. Fuel hose turned up so got on with starting it. Rigged the clio pump up to a battery to check which wires were earth and live, separated the fuel line under the car near the front suspension and checked...

In other news it runs. Woo chuffing hoo :smile:

Assuming my fuel hose has turned up today I want to try and get it to fire up tonight, if that's successful then next job is the pedal box

Had the afternoon off, went to local scrapyard and got an engine bay fusebox, tried it, didn't work. Mate finally got back from his holidays and popped round to recheck everything I'd been through trying to sort the ECU etc. No progress. Bit of random googling turned up the megane technical...

Progress and setbacks. Had a message today to say the drive shafts are nearly done which is great as I thought I'd be waiting on them however on Sunday I got all the wiring in, ECU's in, connected all the earths and positives and though I had no intention of starting it I would have been very...

Stuck at work waiting for some things to finish so won't get to do anything tonight. On the plus side put the pedal box together For some reason I think it's the coolest part I've bought

Yeah we were at oulton in April, car was red then though instead of rattle can primer grey

I've got zero clearance between the downpipe and the master cylinder so can't even relocate the reservoir like you've done. Anyway got the pedal box now and that's exciting :D Because Racecar :D

At the moment that's my intention. The Megane throttle uses a linkage to operate the position sensor so hoping to attach the pedal box throttle with a linkage as well. Just been and picked the pedal box and other parts up so will have a look tonight if I get back from work early enough

I'm amazed people aren't having issues with boiling brake fluid it's so close. Knew it was going to be a tight fit before I started but never imagined there'd be so little clearance

Dropped the driveshafts off this afternoon to get them cut and welded together. Needs Megane inner shaft and Clio outer shaft. Should be ready in about 2 weeks. Interested to see how they hold up, if I get any issues I've found a couple of local places than can make new custom ones so we'll see...

Spent a bit of time on the cooling system tonight and it's pretty much finished, just need a few hose clamps to finish it off. Meg lower hose needed shortening where it connects to the water pump, then connected the bulkhead feeds to my heater with a couple of reducers, Clio header tank...

Had ordered a hard pipe kit for the intercooler from Forge but found out today it's on 8 weeks delivery time which is no good. So plan B, reuse existing boost hoses - result, getting there Also made a start installing the wiring. Had to cut the bulkhead out a bit to get all the wiring through...

Cut some more out of the crash bar as the intercooler is larger than stock and also had to mount it to the inner skin to move it back a couple of inches or it will go through the bumper. Still waiting on a forge hard pipe kit then can get that installed. Last job was trial fitting the megane...

Also fitted my fan to the rad using a revote pull through fan fitting kit then put the rad back in. Need to get some assorted 32m, 10mm and 19mm pipe to complete the coolant circuit. Once the engine was in you can see that the downpipe interferes with the brake master cylinder, I'll get a pic...

Something else I had a look at today was the gear leaver not returning to centre when I drove the megane. Apparently a common problem caused by a nylon bush in the actuator in the gearbox so pulled it apart and need to get some Teflon grease or equivalent which should sort it. White bush shown...

Got a fair bit done today. Fitted new single mass flywheel as the dual mass are problematic apparently though it weighs a ton so may need to look at lightweight ones in the future. New clutch and release bearing too, then got the box on and got in with putting the engine in. Needed to use a...

In and on its mounts

It's going to be close. The only issue concerning me is the driveshafts. A contact through @windle on here can make the shafts for a sensible price from a set of the megane and clio ones. Hoping to drop them off next week to get them done. Clutch will be fine, need a remote reservoir, a piece of...

Righto, slight change of direction. Got the Clio box finally mounted yesterday and then decided to take it off... Keep thinking I'll need an LSD which will cost me a over a grand after fitting and rebuilding a box. So seeing as I can get an RS250 box with LSD of the bay of E and it's designed to...

Sitrep: Back from the States yesterday, 30 days till Oulton Park, better get on it. Used being away as an opportunity to collect a few parts at my dad's so now have the following to fit: New alloy intercooler, braided brake hoses, Carbon Lorraine CL6 pads, necessary brake pipe and fittings to...

Cheers. It was bl00dy quick before, so looking forward to how this turns out. First time attempting something like this. How hard can it be??? Going for it as I'm booked on at Oulton Park 24th August so has to be finished.

Okay, last update for about 3 weeks as I won't have time to get anything done due to work. Changed the sumps over tonight, only had one seized bolt that I had to cut off. Quite why Mr Renault couldn't fit normal bolts to the sump is beyond me instead of stupid E8 torx. Pics below show the two...

That's a Clio rad fitted above as the Megane's one is too large and the one I had fr my ITBs (- scirocco one) was too small in my opinion. I going to combine parts of the Clio and Megane cooling sydtem. Will know more when I get up to it. For the brakes I've transferred the Megane abs pump and...

Chopped the front bumper support to clear the airflow for the intercooler And making a start on the Megane loom later. Needs a couple of small repairs and a whole load of unnecessary wires cutting out

Also, have decided that in order to make fitting the JC5 box a bit easier I'm going to change the sump over to one from an F4R. Rang round a few breakers and located one which should be here Tuesday. If I can get that on, then I can get the box on properly and drop the engine in.

Bit more progress. Have removed the clio master cylinder and replaced with one from a 406 as the ports are on the left hand side away from where the turbo will sit, also temporaily dropped the Megane ABS pump into its new home as after a lot of changing my mind I've decided to keep the ABS...

Which box are you using? Clio?

The top engine mount on the drivers side is a direct swap from the F4R to F4RT and by using the clio box the gear box mounts will fit. The one I'm not sure about until I've test fitted the engine is the dogbone. Worst case have to fab one like people have using the 225 box. No major issue...

Megane is completely stripped and nearly ready for scrapping. Tonight my mate and I got the 225 box off the engine, removed the flywheel and clutch and replaced with the 172 clutch and flywheel Test fitted the Clio gearbox and some of the holes for the bellhousing bolts line up, some others...