Hi everyone. I've never had a French car or a diesel but recently acquired a phase 1 306 sedan with the 1.9 turbo diesel xud.
Despite the plan to keep it a standard runaround within a week Google was calling to find out how to make it faster! Turns out I just have the Lucas pump but have had a play around with it and it's made a surprising difference. Have put a turbo back 2.25" exhaust on it. Only has a single silencer but barely louder than standard. Have given it a quick respray to freshen it up, fitted a phase 3 steering wheel and seats (apart from rear seat back as it's different from the one I picked up. Think I'll need to just swap over the covers). It's lowered on three corners so far, just can't get one of the torsion bars shifted! It's still on standard steels with wheeltrims so it's pretty funny to see peoples faces when it overtakes!
It looks like I now need to read up on the Bosch pumps as I've seen mentions of 9mm, 10mm, 11mm, governor mods etc which is all completely new territory. It badly needs a front mount intercooler as well, which is what led me to this site as I was looking for a how to. The rectangular intake had me stumped. Need to find out how far standard clutches, gearboxes and bottom ends etc can be pushed so I don't break anything. Looks like all the answers should be on here somewhere though.
Let the learning commence!
Despite the plan to keep it a standard runaround within a week Google was calling to find out how to make it faster! Turns out I just have the Lucas pump but have had a play around with it and it's made a surprising difference. Have put a turbo back 2.25" exhaust on it. Only has a single silencer but barely louder than standard. Have given it a quick respray to freshen it up, fitted a phase 3 steering wheel and seats (apart from rear seat back as it's different from the one I picked up. Think I'll need to just swap over the covers). It's lowered on three corners so far, just can't get one of the torsion bars shifted! It's still on standard steels with wheeltrims so it's pretty funny to see peoples faces when it overtakes!
It looks like I now need to read up on the Bosch pumps as I've seen mentions of 9mm, 10mm, 11mm, governor mods etc which is all completely new territory. It badly needs a front mount intercooler as well, which is what led me to this site as I was looking for a how to. The rectangular intake had me stumped. Need to find out how far standard clutches, gearboxes and bottom ends etc can be pushed so I don't break anything. Looks like all the answers should be on here somewhere though.
Let the learning commence!