Frosty's S16 6 speed

[Frosty]

As some of you may have seen I have taken my D turbo off the road for a while to do a bit of work to it. I obviously didn't want to walk everywhere so I had to get another car and of course it had to be a 306. I came across a S16 on eBay that was local to me so I fort that would be ideal so I rung him up and £200 later I was the new owner of a S16. It wasn't that cheap for no reason! It had a gearbox that was noisy in 3rd gear, some twat had kicked the rear quarter in and the cooling fans were always running.

Here's some pics of when I got it









As you can see when I got it it was lowered and had 17s. Also it had a KnN air filter and had a OMP cat back exhaust. Other than that it was standard.

The first thing to sort out was the gearbox which I had decided to put a Gti6 gearbox in as I had 1 lying around. So I did that and I also put a Gti6 steering rack in to deal with the longer box. I also changed the sump as the sump acts as part of the gearbox cover so I also changed the oil pump. As the power steering pipe that goes under the engine bolts to the sump I also had to change the pipe and then all the AUX set up to deal with the different pipe and having to have the different power steering pump. It was a lot of work but I wanted it done proper and plus I had all the bits I needed!

As for the cooling fan they had been wired up to a live so they were on all the time so I replaced the fan with another 1 and it now works fine.

I had decided that I wanted to put it back to pretty much standard so I put some standard height suspension on it. I got some standard wheels and an air box. I decided to keep the exhaust as I didn't have a standard 1 lying around and I love the noise so I kept the OMP and I also de catted it.

A few pics of the car at the moment





That's pretty much it for now but I will update soon and keep you all posted. Hope you enjoy and comments and advise always welcomed!!