New air-feeds and more colour coding

[RacerStu]

Been a busy week for my Clio and me. Decided I would have a go at installing some bigger cold air feeds to my filter box and also got the foglights colour coded and also a new grille sprayed up to replace the old one (broken clip and tonnes of stone chips).

Airfeeds:

I started off by taking most of the front of the car apart. Took the front bumper off and the grille, then the passenger side headlamp. Made it really easy to get to everything and see how much space I had to play with.

Here you can see the size difference between the feeds I used and the standard ones. The standard ones are approx 45mm width for most of it, the new feeds I got are both 70mm so much larger than standard.

There was a large piece of plastic right in the middle of the standard feeds, which didnt seem to do anything so I cut it all out to allow better airflow to the feeds. Then put the new feeds in and secured them with cable ties. Was a bit of a mission getting the headlight back in :dead:

Then put it all back together! Sounds awesome now :approve: really wallows from low down and sounds crazy when you give it some. Seems to pull better too.

Foglights and grille:

Also got the foglights colour coded and a new grille. Really happy with it Finishes off the front nicely IMO. Just a few small bits to finish it off now before I get coilovers and some other performance things next year.

Sorry for the essay!! Any comments or questions welcome

 

[Gaz_]

very nice mate, love that, need a phase 1 airbox to do something similar

loving phase 1's at the moment too!!!!

where was the ducting from?

 

[Djw Dave]

Looking good

 

[AmirClio]

Looking good man!

 

[Millsy]

absolutely f**king gorgeous, good job that man

 

[RacerStu]

Cheers guys

 

[fungusman]

Looks like a job well done, just noticed though.. i know nothing about the 2.0l engines btw

- is that a standard air box?

 

[John185k]

where did you get the ducting from mate?? looks sweet

 

[James.]

stunning mate :d

 

[RacerStu]

Ye its the standard airbox on the phase 1's. I got the ducting from here http://www.venairsport.co.uk/index.php?cPath=49&osCsid=c94f0ea2963c8db11940d83ff6b09e7f Its good stuff. Really strong and doesnt lose any width when it bends as its re-inforced.

 

[Giles]

looks good mate, how hard to take the 172 front off?

can you send me of your some photos in high res please

 

[GarethM]

awesome stu, remember you talking about this on msn,
looking sweet the RS-1

 

[RacerStu]

The front bumper is pretty easy to take off. Just a load of torx screws and some bolts. Takes about 10mins to do and that was my first time. Thanks for the comments

 

[Justin]

much better mate