Steves Megane conversion build - She's finally running (VIDEO inside)

[Stephenvenning]

Love this thread and your attention to detail. Looking forward to seeing it finished!

Thanks mate hopefully be ready for show season this year.

 

[Stephenvenning]

You won't regret it mate, just drove my first few 100km's today, bog standard, old, 100k+ engine. Spins up the front wheel till third on crappy winter tyres and wet tarmac.

can't believe people ask if someone misses the high revving of the original engine, guess they never been in a converted one!

Good stuff mate, you using a meg box? if so ill be probably spinning up in 5th :lol:

 

[Tutuur]

Yeah mate but on 10y old wintertyres so that doesn't help

 

[litchy]

What you thinking about exhaust, I recon rear set up is pretty restrictive for the Meg conversion?

 

[Stephenvenning]

What you thinking about exhaust, I recon rear set up is pretty restrictive for the Meg conversion?

It is but fuelling or cams will restrict it before the exhaust starts to be a problem. For exhaust I've welded a 3 inch v band on the end of my link pipe which is 3" then I'll be able to get the rest exhaust system to 3" fairly easily in the future

 

[Tutuur]

Full 3" system should be adequate till about 600bhp, no problem there!

 

[litchy]

Is the current rear design restrictive given most of the conversions keep the Clio rear set up?

 

[Tutuur]

Lot's of friends of mine drive Volvo's they all have 3" downpipes and 2,5" catbacks with big silencers, they run about 350bhp through it.

so if you have a 2,5" performance exhaust i reckon it should be adequate

 

[Yiannis197]

Love this thread and I'm so jealous of your skills!

 

[pupster92]

Just spend most of my evening reading this thread (bit sad I know lol) but WOW! What amazing attention to detail you have. The car will be a proper testament to your dedication. Keep up the good work, im going to be keeping an eye out for more updates

 

[jord1995]

Just started reading this will come in handy wig I get mine done at the end of the year

 

[Stephenvenning]

Love this thread and I'm so jealous of your skills!

Thanks mate, Ive got to meet you one day, you're not far from me

 

[Stephenvenning]

Just spend most of my evening reading this thread (bit sad I know lol) but WOW! What amazing attention to detail you have. The car will be a proper testament to your dedication. Keep up the good work, im going to be keeping an eye out for more updates

Thanks [MENTION=53963]pupster92[/MENTION] I really appreciate that, there will be plenty of updates, I'm doing ALOT on the car at the moment.

 

[Stephenvenning]

Just started reading this will come in handy wig I get mine done at the end of the year

Any questions you have don't hesitate to ask [MENTION=53112]jord1995[/MENTION] there are a few things that people dont know when doing these conversions

 

[Stephenvenning]

UPDATE:

With the engine out focus has been drawn to the subframe. On Monday I shot blasted the wish bones and then painted them in black hammerite to keep them looking nice for a bit longer. Tuesday I took the subframe to work and shot blasted that, took a while to get into all the areas, Ill paint that this weekend and then hopefully get it bolted back onto the chassis, from then I can test fit the engine.

Ever since the conversions had started as shown by litchy and choppen it seems cooling is an issue, therefore I decided to delete to AC in my build after having chats with Choppen, I could have gotten the standard renault cup delete AC bracket but that isnt me :lol: Ive got to have something shiny therefore I opted for Pure motorsport's new delete bracket, beautiful bit of kit, billet machined bracket which will finish off my engine a treat

From day one of ownership of my car it has had the dreaded clunking of the steering rack, Ive replaced inner and outer track rod ends as well as tightening the U joint bolt, but to no avail, new rack was on the cards then. I ordered a newer and quicker 200 steering rack, should make handling a bit better. I also picked up some new drop link bars and a new abs sensor.

It will look brand new by when I'm finished



















Thanks

 

[jord1995]

Is the 200 rack a direct replacement mine Knocks and I want to replace it with the 200 but didn't no if it needs modifying slightly

 

[Stephenvenning]

Is the 200 rack a direct replacement mine Knocks and I want to replace it with the 200 but didn't no if it needs modifying slightly

Straight replacement mate

 

[TB Rich]

i'm pissed as a fart but that pms bracket is billet porn mate, love it!!!!

whens ur eta to finish this?

 

[Daverb]

£228 for that pulley seems pretty steep. I'm after something to replace the aircon pump but £228!!!!

 

[Stephenvenning]

£228 for that pulley seems pretty steep. I'm after something to replace the aircon pump but £228!!!!

You can get the renault cup ac delete bracket. I wanted something to finish my engine off and this lovely but of engineering does just that.