stef's 205 gti6 supercharged

[procta]

looking great there stef!! a lot of engineering gone into that with the cage! you cannot beat a good install setup inside!
Shame you don't have a spare wheel strapped down in the back like the rally cars had. Wheels look good too!
The mot tester must have been blind! Since when did a G plate car need a emission's test to pass a cat test, what a f*cking prat! All my tester does is fire the car up and let it tick over and that's it.
One thing I have for mine is a uprated fuel pump somewhere, that I did plan to drop in. But never bothered yet, I might do that if the tank starts to fail.
Got to love the tri pod snap there!

[Stef205]

I've just sat here for the last couple hours reading pretty much the entire thread...

craftsmanship, patience and art...

what a build mate!

Thanks

looking great there stef!! a lot of engineering gone into that with the cage! you cannot beat a good install setup inside!
Shame you don't have a spare wheel strapped down in the back like the rally cars had. Wheels look good too!
The mot tester must have been blind! Since when did a G plate car need a emission's test to pass a cat test, what a f*cking prat! All my tester does is fire the car up and let it tick over and that's it.
One thing I have for mine is a uprated fuel pump somewhere, that I did plan to drop in. But never bothered yet, I might do that if the tank starts to fail.
Got to love the tri pod snap there!

Dont need a spare need to keep the car as practical as i can.

[procta]

I've just sat here for the last couple hours reading pretty much the entire thread...

craftsmanship, patience and art...

what a build mate!

Thanks

looking great there stef!! a lot of engineering gone into that with the cage! you cannot beat a good install setup inside!
Shame you don't have a spare wheel strapped down in the back like the rally cars had. Wheels look good too!
The mot tester must have been blind! Since when did a G plate car need a emission's test to pass a cat test, what a f*cking prat! All my tester does is fire the car up and let it tick over and that's it.
One thing I have for mine is a uprated fuel pump somewhere, that I did plan to drop in. But never bothered yet, I might do that if the tank starts to fail.
Got to love the tri pod snap there!

Dont need a spare need to keep the car as practical as i can.

more like keeping the car as light as possible 

[Stef205]

no updates to the car lately but i did buy this which will help with future updates to the car



Parweld xti202 Tig

Been wanting one for ages and this came up at a great deal. £1200 machine but needless to say i didnt pay that! ha.
Im not new to tig but i am a little rusty but hopefully i will benefit from it.

Stef

[Stef205]

finally got around to fitting the new clutch. Got the box out within 15mins (sad i know) Pulled the oem clutch off showed clear signed of heat and was extremely glazed. Decided to inspect the flywheel for any issues, Apon inspection we found lots of stress cracks and lots of high spots. I wasnt happy about putting it back so got on and sorted another. There was only one choice really which was a billet unit from ttv, really didnt want to buy a s/h unit as ive see loads with high spots along with heat marks from oem clutches. Also fitted some new flywheel bolts from peugeot. Nice touch from ttv is the pressure bolts have now been upped to a decent bolt size m8 instead of peugeots stupid m7! 







Flywheel has made a real noticeable difference, Omex has delt with the change well and idle is as smooth as it was before. Clutch is nice and wouldnt know it was a paddle but bites alot harder.

Stef

[procta]

I have seen a few lightened flywheels for k series but not sure how strong they are, read that they can crack.

[Stef205]

billet wont crack.

[Ben]

Car looks great mate, really impressive work! I noticed a picture of a PC680 battery a few pages back, I assume you've been using it? Just wondering because I've recently bought one but am slightly worried by the very low CCA number compared to normal.

[Stef205]

Car looks great mate, really impressive work! I noticed a picture of a PC680 battery a few pages back, I assume you've been using it? Just wondering because I've recently bought one but am slightly worried by the very low CCA number compared to normal.

Yeah battery is great! havent noticed any difference tbh, Turns over the car just as fast if not faster. I used some 35mm2 pure copper cable all over bit over kill but works. I just bought the charger aswell being a gel battery you cant just "charge" it.

Stef

[Stef205]

New suspension has turned up :

Direct from bilstein 205 grp a bodies with inverted mono tubes with Eibach springs. Big thanks to miles for sorting them for me.






Will be sorting some top mounts soon.

Stef

[Ben]

Car looks great mate, really impressive work! I noticed a picture of a PC680 battery a few pages back, I assume you've been using it? Just wondering because I've recently bought one but am slightly worried by the very low CCA number compared to normal.

Yeah battery is great! havent noticed any difference tbh, Turns over the car just as fast if not faster. I used some 35mm2 pure copper cable all over bit over kill but works. I just bought the charger aswell being a gel battery you cant just "charge" it.

Stef

That's good to hear, I may get 35 cable rather than 25 then. Didn't realise you couldn't just charge them, can you jump them like normal?
Looks like some nice shiney suspension you have there!

[Stef205]

well i was only following their advice, bought mine with the charger and cradle for £125 i think. I bought all black cable as i refused to pay a premium for red coated cable, I just sleeved the black with some red shrink to denote positive.

[P-Courty]

New suspension has turned up :

Direct from bilstein 205 grp a bodies with inverted mono tubes with Eibach springs. Big thanks to miles for sorting them for me.






Will be sorting some top mounts soon.

Stef

i hope you have the other nut for the right hand one noticed it only has one on it in the pic.

[Stef205]

New suspension has turned up :

Direct from bilstein 205 grp a bodies with inverted mono tubes with Eibach springs. Big thanks to miles for sorting them for me.






Will be sorting some top mounts soon.

Stef

i hope you have the other nut for the right hand one noticed it only has one on it in the pic.

Yup, and top hats

[Stef205]

Had a few minutes at work so fitted the new mintex 1144 pads and brembo discs with new fluid. Can already feel the difference only time will tell.



Stef

[zx_volcane]

oooh nice, new pad + disc time.

tempted to go back to 1144, although the dust was horrendous + white wheels.

new front struts looks absolutely lovely!

[Stef205]

oooh nice, new pad + disc time.

tempted to go back to 1144, although the dust was horrendous + white wheels.

new front struts looks absolutely lovely!

Great   something to look forward to haha. I wanted ds2500's but for these calipers i couldnt bring my self to the £250 price tag.

Ill get the struts mounts as soon as allan has made the top hats and mounts.

[Stef205]

been hearing a knock on right hand lock almost a cv knock. Got it on the ramp to inspect during the week. Gave the suspension a good wiggle nothing jumped out at me. Removed the front wheels to find the bracket to my rosejointed droplinks had sheared haha.



Fixed it for now with electric magic.




Ill redesign them at some point but for now it works.

Stef

[Stef205]

Over a month since i updated this.

In that time ive blown the centre half of the exhaust apart like a bake bean tin! and cracked the exhaust manifold. Ive sourced another manifold which will be modified to fit. New system in the planning which may include a better manifold and will be going to 3" after a chat with sandy.

Other than that im still driving it everyday, still achieving 32mpg even with a heavy foot.

[Magenta Sunset]

been hearing a knock on right hand lock almost a cv knock. Got it on the ramp to inspect during the week. Gave the suspension a good wiggle nothing jumped out at me. Removed the front wheels to find the bracket to my rosejointed droplinks had sheared haha.



Fixed it for now with electric magic.




Ill redesign them at some point but for now it works.

Stef

weld in a gusset?

[Stef205]

All been redesigned now

[Stef205]

Not much happening with this, Just performing constantly and abused daily. Coming up to its 5,000 mile service so will be doing that at some point.

Gave it a wash.






Going to send a few bits of to my powder coater soon to tidy a few things up. Also fix the speedo cable after snapping the 4th one

Stef

[reese]

What did you use to wash the inside of the arches?

Nice build, this car looks epic! Bet it goes well too!

[Stef205]

What did you use to wash the inside of the arches?

Nice build, this car looks epic! Bet it goes well too!

just used snow foam, arches are fully painted so dirt fell off.

[Stef205]

Nothing to report on this lately other than reliability.

Cleaned the floor up abit hasnt been touched in 6 years.





Stef

[Stef205]

Mot time



Passed with no advisories another ticket with 13months.

Went to a show last weekend dont normally do shows other than pugfest but it was local so i went.

Met a really cool dude






Manged to come away best "stripped" the car not me my clothes stayed on i promise!

meanwhile its current state



Stef

[Stef205]

I have recently started to build a engine for this will update more soon

[Stef205]

Had been "nursing" the engine for a while, started pushing water out and started to run hotter. Decided it was time to pull it out. 
The original plan was just to lift the head and repair what was needed.


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Which in turn changed to this.

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Now it had become a full engine build and a engine bay tidy and repaint.    

Engine strip began

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Yes a FIBRE gasket! I did 40k on this 35k with boost!

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Head and valves seemed ok.

The head was then sent to sandy to work his magic

in the mean time the block was fully stripped and inspected, Big ends where in top shape but the mains had taken a small blow. 
It really wasnt worth spending money on a cast crank so i raided the spare hdi engine for its forged crank

quick test fit of the 88mm crank

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xu5/7/9 thurst washers need to use this crank in a xu10 block.

block was cleaned and gave it a slight hone. The block wasnt scored or did it have any lip at the top it was mearly to score bore up.

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genuine peugeot mains fitted to the block

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Pistons in and mated to the crank with some arp bolts. 

Head returned from sandy 

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About as much as i can show you
The heat also received new valve guides, and serdi valve seats head was skimmed abit more than expected but wont effect the build. 
head was put back on with a genuine gasket, genuine bolts and added some newman camshafts to the mix.


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secretly there just boxes

The standard exhaust manifold was modified, the flange appeared to be the restricting part as it really funnel necks down. I removed the flange and opened the collector to 3" to match the exhaust sizing i plan to use. 
The mandatory v-band was added 
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Wont stay that clean im sure.

I turned my attention to the engine bay. 
I fully stripped all the paint off the bay with industrial paint stripper as it was easier. Then my good friend that paints at mclaren came down and painted the bay for me. Not bad considering the conditions. 

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fuel lines were replaced to ali lines and clipped to the bulkhead.

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engine was lifted back in, surprisingly i didnt scratch anything

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Oil cooler was moved to sit behind the fog light hole in the valance. 

started the exhaust build

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The engine started for the first time, Ecu naturally isnt happy. Ill be getting it back down to sandy at some point. 

This really take me up to where ive got to with the car. 

Stef

[Piggy]

Oh. My.

When I thought I couldn't love your 205 any more ....

[Poodle]

Wow, what a build! Disgustingly clean.