10-12-2014, 05:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2015, 02:06 AM by dieselgeek.)
sorry silver zx was in such a rush to get shot of the car in one day that I had no time to properly break it for parts. didnt even get the fuel pump off and it was a bosch 
So this pic you can see the box section I used to make the mounts for the beam. The standard 306 bolt/bush assembly was a few mm out on fitting so I knocked these up from the same van chassis-extension stuff as I did the chassis reinforcments from.
I bought some very thick poly/rubber style matting and cut squares out to make do as temporary bushes while I got everything lined up, they sit between the mounts and the body and are seated in the flat 'u section' of more box section welded to the top of the blocks. I've got some of that diy liquid polybush stuff to try out now I've got the right thickness and shape.
The beam mounting sections (the large upper sections that bolt to the car and everything is attached to -not sure what you call them???) are interference with the inner arch along their full length for about 20mm depth, so I cut off some of the excess then peened the last bit over with some heat and a hammer.
The white framework in the middle was the radiator mount, the front mounted 306 rad was awful to look at so I spent a huge amount of time building a system that worked with the rad underneath the back of the car, as you'll know from your 306 there's a lot of space back there (with the spare wheel removed) and as my 205 isn't particularly low there's a lot of airflow and a good pressure difference that can be made under there. I got the idea from those old group b lancias with the rad in the rear wing
In the end after all that time/effort I got the nearly new rad from the French 205 so it was all unnecessary...
But what I've learnt from it is that its a good place to put a radiator for a charge cooler, a 205 is so short that there's very little distance from the inlet system to the beam so its reasonable to pipe water back there.
That will wait tho, I want to drive her before more tuning is needed.
The whole underneath of the car eventually cleaned up to the nice yellow underseal...except where its nice rust!
I had planned to stick some 20mm spacers on it to get it even wider.... but as you can see in these 2 pics there's no way it would work so I took them back off and left it standard width.
Brakes had a standard service including a strip and a paint to keep the rust off them for the next few years. I was surprised how good condition the calipers were mechanically, given that they first saw the road in 2001.
Everyone has their own pad preference but generally I like the feel and initial bite of EBC greenstuffs at the front, and stick Boschs on at the back because although they have good power I reckon they have a less sharp initial bite which means that trail braking into a corner is more predictable giving a more natural slide on corner entry..... but this is just my opinion!
They got blue paint cos thats what I had a tin of! The car will be on 15inch standard width black steelies (still need 2 if anyones got some) and I think a nice bit of blue peeking out will look ok - if it doesn't I'll redo them.
My pad retaining system doesn't have a hole for the locking bar to clip into like some seem to - but in 30k miles I've never spat a pad so I don't think its an issue
Rear caliper
So this pic you can see the box section I used to make the mounts for the beam. The standard 306 bolt/bush assembly was a few mm out on fitting so I knocked these up from the same van chassis-extension stuff as I did the chassis reinforcments from.
I bought some very thick poly/rubber style matting and cut squares out to make do as temporary bushes while I got everything lined up, they sit between the mounts and the body and are seated in the flat 'u section' of more box section welded to the top of the blocks. I've got some of that diy liquid polybush stuff to try out now I've got the right thickness and shape.
The beam mounting sections (the large upper sections that bolt to the car and everything is attached to -not sure what you call them???) are interference with the inner arch along their full length for about 20mm depth, so I cut off some of the excess then peened the last bit over with some heat and a hammer.
The white framework in the middle was the radiator mount, the front mounted 306 rad was awful to look at so I spent a huge amount of time building a system that worked with the rad underneath the back of the car, as you'll know from your 306 there's a lot of space back there (with the spare wheel removed) and as my 205 isn't particularly low there's a lot of airflow and a good pressure difference that can be made under there. I got the idea from those old group b lancias with the rad in the rear wing
In the end after all that time/effort I got the nearly new rad from the French 205 so it was all unnecessary...
But what I've learnt from it is that its a good place to put a radiator for a charge cooler, a 205 is so short that there's very little distance from the inlet system to the beam so its reasonable to pipe water back there.
That will wait tho, I want to drive her before more tuning is needed.
The whole underneath of the car eventually cleaned up to the nice yellow underseal...except where its nice rust!
I had planned to stick some 20mm spacers on it to get it even wider.... but as you can see in these 2 pics there's no way it would work so I took them back off and left it standard width.
Brakes had a standard service including a strip and a paint to keep the rust off them for the next few years. I was surprised how good condition the calipers were mechanically, given that they first saw the road in 2001.
Everyone has their own pad preference but generally I like the feel and initial bite of EBC greenstuffs at the front, and stick Boschs on at the back because although they have good power I reckon they have a less sharp initial bite which means that trail braking into a corner is more predictable giving a more natural slide on corner entry..... but this is just my opinion!
They got blue paint cos thats what I had a tin of! The car will be on 15inch standard width black steelies (still need 2 if anyones got some) and I think a nice bit of blue peeking out will look ok - if it doesn't I'll redo them.
My pad retaining system doesn't have a hole for the locking bar to clip into like some seem to - but in 30k miles I've never spat a pad so I don't think its an issue
Rear caliper