Peugeot 206 - XUD9 VNT Lash Up

[mr_fish]

So…update…

Mildly stripped the interior…







Got some ‘rare’ (by which I mean condition) bucket seats from Damo. They are actually quite comfy in all fairness. Went on a buying spree in Screwfix and bought myself a new drill and drill bits. Raided my old man’s metal store and came out with some offcuts of flat metal. Drilled some holes, bolted the original 206 runners to the strips then bolted the seats to that. Fit like a dream.

I can see what people mean about pushing a car harder with bucket seats now.

On to yesterday’s antics:

Darren made suggestions to bring the machine down to try on his rollers, so said I’ll come down Sunday afternoon…was in two minds to drive the car or trailer it. I was confident the car would get there but whether it would come back was a gamble. I knew Darren wouldn’t be able to resist to see how much it could be pushed so I stuck it on the back of our trailer.



Rocked up in Lobb Land, dropped the car off and got it into the shed over the dyno/pit after some mincing manoeuvring by myself. Getting heat in the tyres and some warmth in the engine suddenly saw a 120 degrees on both temp gauges. Got it back down under control from the massive cooling fan that’s been utilised for keeping the air flow up to the front of the car. Along with heaters on full in the car. Tried another run and temperature stayed under control. Put that down to a sticky ‘stat. Bit strange as the temps stay under control on the road. But it was getting fully loaded on the rollers. The turbo may of surged a bit 







The coal was pretty chronic, the extraction setup is immense in the shed though. Was quite a bit of heat and flow coming from the 206 it split the flu pipe that was being used. Chris, in true radger style, broke out the gaffa tape and lashed it up.



Let the car cool down a bit had a look at Chris’s landy conversion…coming together nicely. Just some starter issues to sort but he fired it up and sounded rather throaty, even shakes the truck when revved.

Back on the dyno I though I’d down the fuel half a turn to see what happens. So easy on the bosch. Ran it up and saw dropped off around 10hp (IIRC) so then thought we’d got the other way for the final run. Gave it half a turn extra to what it was originally. So all of the smoke now to be expected.


Anyways a random set of clips I took:



Came away with all legs intact and car running very well, so I saw that as a bonus. An approximate result of 206HP. Darren believes the car is making around that so I’ll take it as 200HP which is what I was aiming to achieve from the project. How the engine/turbo are still sticking it is beyond me. 

Rhys also rocked up and put his estate on with another random MAF found in the shed (suspected MAF issue) and that was making expected power.



The car has only a few more days of legality so we can say we’ve ended on a high.



I'm sure Darren can give an account of his thoughts as he had control of it on the rollers.

Cheers for Looking