R5 GTT EFI Clio.
I decided to start a new thread as the old one it was all out of order and before it was to late I decided to correct my self.
My brother, Lee, bought this engine off EBay as a project, got into it, times moved on, he moved to Bristol, was working away, not here very often. I decided to buy it off him and continue the project my self, build it up, and drop it into my Mk2PH2 2002 model 1.2 Clio.
The block had been living on the floor for close to a year, some pics:
Decided to put the head on just so I could use the engine crane to get it up off the floor and onto the stand:
Once it was on the stand, the strip down began:
Crank out:
Now that it was stripped down to a complete bare block, I got dad to bring home some industrial paint stripper, after using this and the pressure washer, a few coats later ended up like this:
Day after got him to bring some primer home, 1..2..3..coats later:
Decided to go from blue to a mean red to make a change, water pump and a few other bits back on:
Also tapped a hole for the oil return from the turbo:
Painted a few bits:
Went and bought a new inlet manifold gasket last weekend, was looking forward to putting that back on the head, until I realized I had thrown the old nuts out by mistake, Doh! – Will get some Audi manifold nuts, they seem pretty good, same thread too.
When my brother previously owned this engine, he had the standard pistons machined to lower the compression, due to turbo application, he was stuck for money and sold these, so target was set to find some second hand pistons. Put a wanted up on Clio16Valver and within minutes I had a set on there way to me for £30 delivered, not bad huh?:
I then took the pistons off the conrods, and got my father to machine 1mm of material straight off the top.
Before:
After:
I then set about finding some bits I needed, F7P top mount, bottom mount, few covers and missing parts, no recent pics though.
The cylinder head has been fully rebuilt with all new valves and all other internals, apart form the cams, this is now sat on my desk in my bedroom along with everything else from the top half of the engine.
The only thing holding me back from getting the head on, and continuing my build is that I need Big ends, mains and thrust washers for the crank, also need to get piston rings, then the project will start to come together.
Here is a image to show everything fully painted, and ready to go back into/onto the engine when I get rings and bearings for the crank:
And here is a quick image to show the head resting back on top of the block just to see what the color looks like, you might also notice a few more bits added:
Tonight I have been looking into the wiring loom. In my clio there is only 1 main connection form the engine loom to the car loom, same as the clio sports, well in the Valver there are 2, a big chunky brown one (the main connection) and a smaller white connection with only 4 wires in, because my car only has one, I have to strip some wires out, so decided to strip the diagnostics cables out, right the way back to the ECU plug.
Next thing I need to find is a wiring diagram for the ECU connector, so I can see what pin does what, trace the wires so I know what connector is what, and any irrelevant wires in the loom can then be stripped out.
Pics:
I labeled each wire before I cut them:
Sorry for poor image quality, only have my phone.
Project is coming along nicely, currently working on the loom; does anyone have a wiring diagram for either this loom or the ECU connector? I think it’s a PH2.5 engine and loom, its a 1993 model so think it is.
Cheers
My brother, Lee, bought this engine off EBay as a project, got into it, times moved on, he moved to Bristol, was working away, not here very often. I decided to buy it off him and continue the project my self, build it up, and drop it into my Mk2PH2 2002 model 1.2 Clio.
The block had been living on the floor for close to a year, some pics:
Decided to put the head on just so I could use the engine crane to get it up off the floor and onto the stand:
Once it was on the stand, the strip down began:
Crank out:
Now that it was stripped down to a complete bare block, I got dad to bring home some industrial paint stripper, after using this and the pressure washer, a few coats later ended up like this:
Day after got him to bring some primer home, 1..2..3..coats later:
Decided to go from blue to a mean red to make a change, water pump and a few other bits back on:
Also tapped a hole for the oil return from the turbo:
Painted a few bits:
Went and bought a new inlet manifold gasket last weekend, was looking forward to putting that back on the head, until I realized I had thrown the old nuts out by mistake, Doh! – Will get some Audi manifold nuts, they seem pretty good, same thread too.
When my brother previously owned this engine, he had the standard pistons machined to lower the compression, due to turbo application, he was stuck for money and sold these, so target was set to find some second hand pistons. Put a wanted up on Clio16Valver and within minutes I had a set on there way to me for £30 delivered, not bad huh?:
I then took the pistons off the conrods, and got my father to machine 1mm of material straight off the top.
Before:
After:
I then set about finding some bits I needed, F7P top mount, bottom mount, few covers and missing parts, no recent pics though.
The cylinder head has been fully rebuilt with all new valves and all other internals, apart form the cams, this is now sat on my desk in my bedroom along with everything else from the top half of the engine.
The only thing holding me back from getting the head on, and continuing my build is that I need Big ends, mains and thrust washers for the crank, also need to get piston rings, then the project will start to come together.
Here is a image to show everything fully painted, and ready to go back into/onto the engine when I get rings and bearings for the crank:
And here is a quick image to show the head resting back on top of the block just to see what the color looks like, you might also notice a few more bits added:
Tonight I have been looking into the wiring loom. In my clio there is only 1 main connection form the engine loom to the car loom, same as the clio sports, well in the Valver there are 2, a big chunky brown one (the main connection) and a smaller white connection with only 4 wires in, because my car only has one, I have to strip some wires out, so decided to strip the diagnostics cables out, right the way back to the ECU plug.
Next thing I need to find is a wiring diagram for the ECU connector, so I can see what pin does what, trace the wires so I know what connector is what, and any irrelevant wires in the loom can then be stripped out.
Pics:
I labeled each wire before I cut them:
Sorry for poor image quality, only have my phone.
Project is coming along nicely, currently working on the loom; does anyone have a wiring diagram for either this loom or the ECU connector? I think it’s a PH2.5 engine and loom, its a 1993 model so think it is.
Cheers
