Technical adaptations enabled the production of this engine in many displacements in single and dual carburettor forms, later with fuel injection, with or without turbo. Cars fitted with the engine range from the Floride/Caravelle through the first generation Twingo of 1993, thirty years after this power unit was presented to the press at Geneva. This four-cylinder provided power for generations of Renaults over the years, with displacements from 956 to 1,565 cc (1.0 to 1.6 L). When production started in 1962, this (then) modern engine was initially called the "Sierra" it was soon renamed the "Cléon-Fonte", taking its name from the ultra-modern Renault factory where it was first manufactured. ![]() The C-type is an overhead valve, water-cooled design, with a 5-bearing crankshaft, a chain driven, side-positioned camshaft operating the valves via pushrods and rockers, and an aluminum cylinder head. ![]() For about three decades it was a mainstay in Renault's compact models, before being gradually replaced by the E-type engine from the late 1980s onward. ![]() The Cléon-Fonte engine, also known as the Sierra engine or under the code "C-engine" or "C-Type" ( C for Cléon, where it was built, fonte being French for cast iron), is a family of four-cylinder, inline automobile engines manufactured continuously by Renault and its subsidiary Dacia from 1962 to 2004.
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