Richies Project Rallye

[Rich306]

After rebuilding the engine i put it back in the engine bay.



After all was put back together, i turned her over; Crapped myself when she wouldn't register anything on the dash and more so when she tapped to high heaven!
I turned her off and back on again, thankfully the dash had registered - must have somehow reconfigured herself completely.
After letting her get to temperature and bleeding the cooling system, she pumped out hot air, ran sweet as a nut and the tapping died down to the normal tick over.

The only annoying thing i am struggling with now is the bloody balljoint on the passenger side, i managed to drop a litre of Gearbox oil when the driveshaft popped out of place when moving the hub. And not content with that, i knocked over my only full bottle of G/B oil and then i had to buy some more.
Working by yourself on putting the balljoint into the hub is bloody difficult!!


Had a problem with the Passenger driveshaft, split the boot again and had to fit a new one. However the C shaped pin that holds the head on snapped.
Finding another one proved difficult and Peugeot would only sell one with a new kit at the fun price of £38!
So i had an ingenious idea of turning a Keyring into the new C shaped clip - which worked!! and now it's all back together .

Next bit that follows is putting a new track rod on the passenger side, cleaning up and spraying the callipers. Fitting the brake discs and pads.

The slam panel needs painting, but that will be done in time Also Front bumper needs replacing because of damage i found.

I finally got the car off of the Axle stands

After fitting a jubilee clip to the CV Boot to secure it, i then fitted both brakes (freshly painted):



And fitted some new Badges (from Custom Decals - Thank you very much buddy!)



After a quick move around on the drive, i gave her a bath to remove all the dirt and grime off of her i caused!




Got these off of Jo3HDi :p



Not telling price of them, all i can say is at mates rates

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It took a while for me to get out and work on the car again; mainly due to waiting for some parts to come through and also the time and motivation to do it!

So lets start with what goodies came through the post:


Yup, you guessed it, Rich's old strut brace from the poor beaten up 6'
2 hockey sticks in good condition thanks to Ash from the Club306 forum
and the two paint cans, well.... i picked them up Friday after getting some paint mixed (look below for the finished article).

On Friday i fitted the Hockey sticks


And Saturday pushed onto the wheels.
I've only done the one wheel for now, as the garage was closing when i chose to get the tyre pushed down.
Started with this:

Then the progression as shown:




Just so you get the idea of what the proper colour is, it's a red pearl mixed in with the black to give it this effect when in sunlight:



Soooo after Lacquering it up and s**tting myself when this happened :cry :

Thankfully disappears after a minute or two

I got bored in the end, and hungry... so i thought i'd stop indoors for lunch and a brew


My next task was to tackle rich's strut brace, now the paint was flaking quite badly from being on his Bianca, so i gave it a strip down and spray of paint..




Because i had to let that dry i thought i'd clean the car and give the paintwork a spruce up.
...... Which then turned into T-cutting because i scratched the entire bodywork in the process

I hope you can see the scratches in that photo :blink

I've had to 3000 grit sand the paint back to remove the scratches i created. and it's slowly started coming up.
However work had to stop as i wanted to bake the strut brace, and the only way to do that???


Yup... you guessed it.

What a better way to bake the paint on fully than to bolt it on to the car (carefully) and then turn the engine over into a sweet purr


That was pretty much it for that day... I had to wait for someone to drop off his Buffer machine so that it can remove the scratches better and with heat.
Then the bonnet should be shining like its meant to!

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Things went a little crap one week as when buffing the car up:


Yes, this person will be more careful next time!
Ordered another sticker and the bonnet is now 98% Scratch free! Amazing how many stone chips i have though


I worked on the other cyclones, but had to do one at a time as the preparation i did was so shocking, the primer cracked! :O

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It was about a week before i did any more work on her.

Waxed and polished
Exhaust rattle from the heat shield fixed and stopped.
Cleaned interior
Cyclones couldn't be finished as the weather got far too cold before i could finish them up. I'm going to have to try again later this year.

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Here is some more photos - I ended up repainting the Strut brace black:



I had the right amount of time off to work on the car, so i cracked on with the undersealing that has been begging me to do it!

Start with car on ramps



Followed by a brief insight to how much needs to be done:




I think they've rusted somewhat.


Question. Can i avoid putting the above heat shields back into place and be left with the one you see still sitting on the chassis?

After peeling back some more rubber coating, i found this :

Which eventually turned into this :o :


Gaaah More rust!!! Just a little more severe this time.

Don't you ever get that moment when you wish you hadn't poked anymore with the screwdriver and found more holes??
Looks like this might need welding at some point!!

Rust treatment doing its work:


I'm gonna have to wait a little while before i get it welded, might pay Daveyboy a visit in Southampton one weekend to get it sorted.
I will be keeping the car for as long as i can afford it, so it will need to be done.
This is a more temporary fix in order to preserve it a little longer until i can afford to get it cut out and welded.



Cleaned up the rear end, however i need to take off the Rear beam at some point due to rust on the mounts. Also enables me to completely respray the entire underneath. Probably will take down the Fuel tank as well.

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Ended up spending more money...

Found myself tempted by some mint condition Crystal headlights for £36 from a scrapyard.
I wanted to black mask them, so i did

Same colour as my Cyclones will be going




Photo of the old headlights with standard bulbs

Can tell the difference with the new Osram Nightbreaker bulbs, much better clearer headlights!!

Will get a better photo of the Black masked headlights tomorrow.

Not bad for a second time of doing this to headlights huh?

Just waiting on the cyclones being painted and put on the car now.
Used Autoglym products to clean and bring her up to a shine!
I also painted the Peugeot badge whilst i had the paint out from the previous night!
What do you think?





If anyone needs a set of Black masks doing, PM me with your interest and depending on the interest i will pop a thread up dedicated to doing these headlights.

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Whilst the car has been sitting there, the cold ruined the Battery, so i had to buy myself a new battery for her this week. A Bosch S4 Cold start battery.

Managed to get £20 off bringing the price down to £63 (roughly) from Euros!

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Looks like some good work! What is the black paint? Hammerite?

This is exactly what I want to do to a gti6 or a rallye when i have a place of my own and a decent job!

Thanks, the Black paint is something i got privately mixed up. I need to get more sometime soon to complete the work on the other Cyclones