182 fix up make good

[Damon65]

Hello all back again after a year or so away from a Clio. To be honest I regretted selling my 172 straight away but at the time it had to go..... End of the sob story spotted this 182 on eBay and decided to dip my feet back in. I got it cheap because of a misfire I'm told that cylinder 3 is down on compression roughly 100psi and the others are showing 160psi I haven't actually had chance to look at it yet but I bought the car planning to swap out the engine. Plans are fairly minimal at the moment I want to get it running properly and tidy it up. It's got a miltek cat back exhaust and lowered

 

[Damon65]

Had abit of free tinker time today so I decided to swap injector/lead/plug from cylinder 2 to 3 it had a stored code of misfire cylinder 3 so I cleared it started it again just to check it comes back as cylinder 3 and it did so I swapped anything over noticed odds and sods but bolted it all back up and the misfire is now on cylinder 2 so time to see my friend at Eurocar parts and get a new injector set of leads and plugs

 

[Alastair.]

I'm sure I saw this on eBay, where was it located to?

 

[JB21]

Same as what mine had when i bought it. Dead easy fix and fairly cheap as well. Use code club2008oc for 20% off.

 

[Damon65]

Awesome cheers mate!

 

[Damon65]

Few pics from today

Lots of oil everywhere I found the oil plate ontop of the rocker had a few loose bolts. Will clean it all up when I get my new bits tomorrow. Also took a picture of the plugs somethings clearly not quite right!

This was the fault code before I swapped a few bits around

And this was what it gave me after I swapped the injector/plug/lead from cylinder 3 onto cylinder 2

 

[Damon65]

I'm sure I saw this on eBay, where was it located to?

Yeah it was an eBay purchase

 

[Damon65]

Right a little update....... she's purring lovely I fitted new plugs, injector and leads I'm well chuffed! Did a headlight resto as well but not taken any pics yet.

Next job is brakes

 

[Alastair.]

Yeah it was an eBay purchase

Was it in Wiltshire?

 

[Damon65]

No mate it was in Luton

 

[Ads29]

Apologies for hi jacking, does look to be a nice clean example and well done finding the issue and not having to swap the engine

@Alastair. are you on about the one from a couple of weeks back that was 750 buy it now?

 

[Damon65]

Only picture I seem to have of the progress

Difference is awesome

 

[Alastair.]

Apologies for hi jacking, does look to be a nice clean example and well done finding the issue and not having to swap the engine

@Alastair. are you on about the one from a couple of weeks back that was 750 buy it now?

May have been, I'm sure it's was near the Westbury area.

 

[Ads29]

May have been, I'm sure it's was near the Westbury area.

That's the one, was in devizes. Ended up buying myself for a mate, literally just got it running earlier today after swapping engine over and doing belts and dephaser

Polishing the headlights makes a huge difference doesn't it @Damon65

 

[Damon65]

That's the one, was in devizes. Ended up buying myself for a mate, literally just got it running earlier today after swapping engine over and doing belts and dephaser

Polishing the headlights makes a huge difference doesn't it @Damon65

Totally!! didn't take long either

 

[Ads29]

I did mine last weekend, took about 20 minutes a side (I took mine off the car as well as they were really bad) and couldn't believe how well they came up

 

[Damon65]

Amazing difference.

Had a nice parcel turn up today with a race dogbone mount from Evol engineering can't wait to get it bolted up was a bargain aswell! Also purchased a ram air filter with the 90degree elbow hopefully have these fitted next weekend.

 

[Damon65]

Starting to notice a few niggles, starting with a slight blow from the exhaust sounds like the cat to centre section join I do have a decat to bolt on but have read mixed reviews on them so I might just see where it's leaking and address it. Needs a new bottom ball joint ( luckily I have one already from a previous Clio) it's the time that every f4r engined Clio is afraid of.....cambelt time

 

[Damon65]

Done quite a few odds and sods fitted a decat, love the sound of it little pop when it's cold and a lovely rasp in midrange

https://www.flickr.com/gp/145218097@N06/fSx48N

Also got fed up with the thumb grips and fitted some new ones no pics though but best mod I've done. Also removed my tints as I always hated them and I'm so happy with the look of it now makes such a difference
https://www.flickr.com/gp/145218097@N06/37U598
Need to sort the wheels out now