30-06-2014, 08:50 PM
So almost 10 years ago I got the trackday bug....
I moved through a few track-focussed Vauxhalls, and ended up running a couple of races in a Nova GTE, before it caught turning-brown-vauxhall disease and died.
The car was underdeveloped (poorly tuned carbs, knackered shocks) and I lacked the testicular fortitude to overcome that, or the intelligence to go testing first!
Alongside the track cars I was running my Rallye as usual daily driver.
September '12 and it disgraced itself on the way to work, sitting in a puddle of coolant; head gasket didn't survive the shame, and I parked it, leasing a super-dull 1.2TDI econo-wagon.
It turns out that no-one wants to buy a broken 13-year old French tin can, so I got it repaired and as soon as a space opened up in my garage I brought it home, planning to mothball it until values went up.
That plan lasted all of 3 days! A chap on the gti6 site was breaking his track Rallye, and the cage and suspension was too tempting to say no to.
Cage being resprayed from red to black
Customised Koni's, converted to coilovers, revalved and with 350lb Eibachs.
The girls loving the Cobra Monacos (from a Nova on migweb, with seat mounts from someone on gti6 forum)
Set of black Oz Superturismos (Ford offset, but with hubcentric spacers)
And another set in white (ebay bargain, came with Ford-Peugeot spacers already welded inside - chap was selling cos they wouldn't fit on his Escort!)
Stripped back and repainted to anthracite
There's a lot of stuff comes out of a 306...
Oops, pretty sure that's not meant to look like that! Replacement rear beam sourced and being fitted...
These pics are all from last summer. I did a few bits on it since, like fit the suspension, air filter, rig up a leaky oil cooler; but I'm a teacher and find myself ridiculously busy from 8:30-3:15 each weekday, so didn't find time to complete much else since last August. I've now entrusted the car to Shepherd Motors in Chelmsford, who have run BTCC 306s to titles in club motorsport, to get it finished off. I've been using them since I got my white 6 nearly 11 years ago, and they're top guys.
I'll post up a spec list of how it should come back. It's being built to CTCRC pre-2005 series regs, which means standard engine, 'box and bodywork, but enough other stuff to play with.
Cheers for reading!
Tim
I moved through a few track-focussed Vauxhalls, and ended up running a couple of races in a Nova GTE, before it caught turning-brown-vauxhall disease and died.
The car was underdeveloped (poorly tuned carbs, knackered shocks) and I lacked the testicular fortitude to overcome that, or the intelligence to go testing first!
Alongside the track cars I was running my Rallye as usual daily driver.
September '12 and it disgraced itself on the way to work, sitting in a puddle of coolant; head gasket didn't survive the shame, and I parked it, leasing a super-dull 1.2TDI econo-wagon.
It turns out that no-one wants to buy a broken 13-year old French tin can, so I got it repaired and as soon as a space opened up in my garage I brought it home, planning to mothball it until values went up.
That plan lasted all of 3 days! A chap on the gti6 site was breaking his track Rallye, and the cage and suspension was too tempting to say no to.
Cage being resprayed from red to black
Customised Koni's, converted to coilovers, revalved and with 350lb Eibachs.
The girls loving the Cobra Monacos (from a Nova on migweb, with seat mounts from someone on gti6 forum)
Set of black Oz Superturismos (Ford offset, but with hubcentric spacers)
And another set in white (ebay bargain, came with Ford-Peugeot spacers already welded inside - chap was selling cos they wouldn't fit on his Escort!)
Stripped back and repainted to anthracite
There's a lot of stuff comes out of a 306...
Oops, pretty sure that's not meant to look like that! Replacement rear beam sourced and being fitted...
These pics are all from last summer. I did a few bits on it since, like fit the suspension, air filter, rig up a leaky oil cooler; but I'm a teacher and find myself ridiculously busy from 8:30-3:15 each weekday, so didn't find time to complete much else since last August. I've now entrusted the car to Shepherd Motors in Chelmsford, who have run BTCC 306s to titles in club motorsport, to get it finished off. I've been using them since I got my white 6 nearly 11 years ago, and they're top guys.
I'll post up a spec list of how it should come back. It's being built to CTCRC pre-2005 series regs, which means standard engine, 'box and bodywork, but enough other stuff to play with.
Cheers for reading!
Tim