Do it mate! well worth doing! what happened to the F7R?
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My dirty little secret...
- Thread starter Dan@SJM
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2.0 F7P
Its munched 2 headgaskets in 4000 miles, although it was replaced properly. So cooling/mapping/flatness (of BE) is at issue.
But i cant be arsed to mess with it and want to but an F4R in!
Oh so it was a bored out jobbie..
I'll tell you now its not a straight forward swap, and for the exhaust do what someone else did on here and go and get it made by powerflow...
little bits dont work here and there i.e the oil level and temp guages, ive tried wiring those up but had no joy. ive got the pressure one working though. the temp and rev counter dont work either, so if your prepared to have stuff like that go for it lol
I'll tell you now its not a straight forward swap, and for the exhaust do what someone else did on here and go and get it made by powerflow...
little bits dont work here and there i.e the oil level and temp guages, ive tried wiring those up but had no joy. ive got the pressure one working though. the temp and rev counter dont work either, so if your prepared to have stuff like that go for it lol
yea it was me mate, yea i came to weston for you lol! although i did have a nice play against a 182 on my way home.
owned. lol!
owned. lol!
Some of a Clio 1.8 16v
That was me went to powerflow but it was far from cheap as the car couldn't be driven there. Before we stripped it back out again we did have oil level and temp working but no pressure as our egine had no sesor, did you fit an aftermarket one? As you know our temparature guage does work but the wirings been trimmed back so much now I can't tell you which wire we used
SorryGood to see yours up and driving, The vid made the hairs on my neck stand up:evil:
I dont care about little things like that, they can be dealt with in other ways.
Im just waiting to hear from a few people that might do the conversion for me.
I would have come to the Airfield day and witnessed the car but i cant come now because my engine is dead. Make some more vid's pretty please
Im happy to do the conversion if you want...
your only bristol area yea?
your only bristol area yea?
what?! airfield then street wars lol!
my wallet cant cope with that
my wallet cant cope with that
Im in bristol yeah, but i wouldnt want to source anything, id want a drive in drive out price
yep using the temp and level sesor from the valver.
beanies rev coun ter under-reads like i said. and for the at light its only 1 wire i need to run, just need to find where it goes on the valver side.
beanies rev coun ter under-reads like i said. and for the at light its only 1 wire i need to run, just need to find where it goes on the valver side.
stevo172-RWD
ClioSport Club Member
clio 172 rwd
went for a passenger ride this sat just gone and i can say its defo
as fast if not faster than my 172turbo!
prob because of gear ratio weight etc lol
all i know is its rapid!
mybe some traction would help!more so
as fast if not faster than my 172turbo!
prob because of gear ratio weight etc lol
all i know is its rapid!
mybe some traction would help!more so
Some of a Clio 1.8 16v
The rev counter isn't a wiring thing really, the problem is the 1.8 engine runs one coil that sparks 4 times per revolution, where as the 172 engine runs 2 coils which only spark twice each every revolution so when you use the signal wire you're rev counter will read half. I've found a rev counter on demon tweeks thats programmable to run on a 2 cylinder or twin coil but we have bigger fish to fry in our project before we need to get the rev counter working. Some kind of signal amp would be brilliant but I don't think such a product exsists.
As for the alternator light, thats just an ignition feed that you need to run to the alternator.
stevo172-RWD
ClioSport Club Member
clio 172 rwd
im sure dans rev counter works fine?dan?
nope, no rev counter
stevo172-RWD
ClioSport Club Member
clio 172 rwd
lol a JB1080 mk1-ph1 1.2 box LOL
The mrs is insured on it now! shes been driving it all night tonight, shes still struggling with the steering lol!
stevo172-RWD
ClioSport Club Member
clio 172 rwd
is she mad?:S
my mrs wont even hold thr wheel while im sleeping :lolup:
stevo172-RWD
ClioSport Club Member
clio 172 rwd
fuel tank was sent out friday dan so should be here wed!
you up for starting her up sat/sun?
vid?
you up for starting her up sat/sun?
vid?
yeh mate we will hve it running saturday.
F4R'd ITB'd '92 cup racer
dan help me out here
im talking to paul at rstuning about getting ecu decoded
did you have trouble with yours because your loom had the UCH connector? was that why you needed an emulator on the ecu?
thing is the loom and ecu ive got doesnt have UCH connector so i wonder if i could just get away with a decode?
ive pm'd beaniemoo aswell asking if he had to have an emulator fitted as his loom didnt have UCH iirc
im talking to paul at rstuning about getting ecu decoded
did you have trouble with yours because your loom had the UCH connector? was that why you needed an emulator on the ecu?
thing is the loom and ecu ive got doesnt have UCH connector so i wonder if i could just get away with a decode?
ive pm'd beaniemoo aswell asking if he had to have an emulator fitted as his loom didnt have UCH iirc
I dont have an emulator, instead i have the uch and key etc all wired up and tucked away under the dash top.
Paul said I may need an emulator if i didnt have the uch etc.
Paul said I may need an emulator if i didnt have the uch etc.
Well little update, the 1.2 gearbox just died on me... 4000miles on a 180/190bhp engine isnt bad atall IMO! so this week when im home from work,(friday) will be the day of change...
what box are you going to use??
Ive got a 172 box sitting here, so going to bang that one in, wait until it breaks and put 1.9d box in i expect...
Well heres the box...
The remainders are across the front of some CL merc lol.
The remainders are across the front of some CL merc lol.
stevo172-RWD
ClioSport Club Member
clio 172 rwd
is that work gloves i see dan?
you got her out today then lol.
hope you never used the grinder lol
you got her out today then lol.
hope you never used the grinder lol
f**king takes the piss mate. im going back on weds.
nah mate. no need to now im working
F4R'd ITB'd '92 cup racer
nah mate. no need to now im working
ah didnt realise you were between jobs
back on the spanners i assume?
ish, steel works at the mo building the new broadmead shopping centre in bristol. tho ive been signed off by the dr for a week as the grinding dust has affected my air ways making me cough up blood only been there a week ffs!
No jobs round here on the spanners oddly. mind you everywhere has gone dead!
only been there a week ffs!No jobs round here on the spanners oddly. mind you everywhere has gone dead!
