205 GTi6S

[cheesegrater]

Thought I'd put a small project thread together with the remaining photos I have seeing as I've somehow forgotten my dropbox password!
My car started off in a sorry state having been stood down for a good 3 years or so.

It had a poorly sounding 1600 engine which got swapped out for another 1600.

Once the massive hole in the fuel pump was sorted I drove it for a year.

I then got a tad bored with the 1600 and went for an XU10J4RS!

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I decided to rebuild the engine whilst it was out, it seemed silly not to.

This was always going to be a fun fiddly job!
I also fitted a TTV flywheel because I figured Im not pulling the, comparatively speaking, heavier shell of the 306 around.

Can't remember what I was making here but heres my home brew lathe

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Got bored one saturday so I took the 1600 lump out!


I'll update more when I get the time!

[7057sam]

Good work so far, what spec are you going to rebuilt it to?

The lightened flywheels are great, pulls so much more harder through the rev range.

[cheesegrater]

It was all rebuilt back up to standard. Found two bent valves and a cracked piston though!

[7057sam]

Ah kl you going for mi16 5 speed box or gti6.

Think I've I had to reshell I'd love to put my lump in a 205.

[cheesegrater]

Ah kl you going for mi16 5 speed box or gti6.

Think I've I had to reshell I'd love to put my lump in a 205.

It's got a VTS gearbox out of a Xsara, I've got a D-turbo box to go in now for the longer 5th. It's a good laugh!

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6 lump in! It's a tight squeeze, exhaust manifold has to be reangled to save you tilting the whole lot. I took the opportunity to put GTi6 brakes and 406 master cylinder on, I figured more power, more brakes.
I ran this for about 10k and loved every minute. Had a few issues with the starter motor in the summer which I traced down to a 8'' section of solenoid wire out of the fuse box which had about 6 dodgy repairs in it!

For the suspension I'm currently using eibach 30mm progressive springs with 306 Bilstein B4 dampers and 306 rear dampers. Hopefully should have a new beam in the next week or so with uprated ARB and torsion bars.

[306GT30]

Great looking project mate!