Right , this car has been my friends for about 7 years. He paid 3.5k for the car back in the day and it was mint. He works in a foundry and with iron filings the paintwork quickly went downhill coupled with a couple of minor parking accidents and needing quite a few bits for the MOT he sold it to me recently for a decent amount of cash.

Im starting this to mainly follow whats been done , and if i ever sell the car or engine it will be on here first so people will at least have some background on the car and whats been done. So dont be expecting supercharged engines and massive spec lists, its going to be relatively standard but with some nice tweaks for track use hopefully. Main focus will be on reliability.

Car is already booked for combe on 24th april action day so its getting ready for it now.

Work completed to date.

1. All metal brake lines replaced in copper
2. Both rear flexis replaced and one front
3. All 4 brakes stripped, reassembled , greased + cleaned etc.
4. New front KYB gas shocks
5. New front KYB springs
6. Complete cambelt kit including waterpump
7. New clutch cable ( what a difference )
8. New metal drop links
9. New front lower arms/ball joints
10. New battery
11. Loads of old wires cleared out from crappy handsfree kit install
12. New spiggots for wheels and tyres resealed


Few pictures of work i have done , more to come... lots more unfortunately.

The shell as it stands




The wheels


Old parts from cambelt change


Few of the car with no belt fitted for proof if needed in future




New shocks/springs


The clutch cable bag/instructions and the new droplinks. ( what a difference a new cable makes!! )


Thanks for looking guys, i will have more done by the weekend and hopefully have it back on the deck.

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Next priority:- Change rear lights!

Good work though, keep it coming

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Team 'unintentional rat look'

and also you have to add removal of lexus rear lights to your list

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1997 Diablo Red 1.6 xs! crashed and scrapped!
1998 Nile blue Gti 6
1999 Yamaha R6! maybe for sale soonish still in two minds!

HaHa trust you lot to notice those stick on tat heaps of crap !

They need changing ASAP, i had provisionally bought a set.

Harris, im from Wednesbury mate, junction 9 off the M6. Clutch cable aint such a bad job if you have done it before , but yeah if you got some Ph2/3 lights for me i will give you a hand with it mate

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No worries, if you change your mind or your passing just give me a shout

What you want for the lights delivered mate, think of it as a worthwhile charity.... removing stick on tat from a GTi6 that will be seen in public is worthy no ?

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Ill not be at any meets any time soon mate, but yeah posted sounds a good idea if you wouldnt mind , whats your paypal and ill send you the cash over ?

As long as they aint cracked or owt they will be fine , scratches wont bother me. Thanks

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Few bits done over the weekend , mainly on the paintwork. The contamination is unreal.

Few Pics as we go:-

Shot of the freshened up suspension
Arms/Drops/Shocks/Springs



Wheels before a clean


And after


Old aux belt


Nice new one fitted




Shot of the new cambelt


Now on to some paintwork.

The contamination


The claybar process


And just some random ones during and after machine polishing








Two of my wheels were cracked, so they are in for a touch of TIG. When they are back the final job is to make the new exhaust up and MOT it

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Looks like you are doing a great job, i have just mopped a black motor, they look so nice when all polished.

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

As above???

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TEAM Supercharged Rallye

As stated two wheels were cracked, so a touch of a Tig, a touch or grinding and a quick lick of paint gives the following :-

















Time for a couple of new tyres and after the new exhaust is made up i should be MOTable. Hopefully this weekend if my welding Skillz are all they are cracked up to be :

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Looks really nice that
I'll come and say Hi if I see your car at Combe, will be there I think with the Rallye (red with grey wheels).

One small thing - the exhaust looks broken and hanging a tad...?

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Nothing to see here

Cheers guys.

Exhaust points upwards, it was the way it was welded on , looks fine from underneath but i will make a better one if it puts up with some abuse.

And yeah ride height is a little high but its sooo comfy and grippy Plus im scared of the rear beam haha

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Well ok , not scared per se. However i wont be messing until i got a spare one in stock that i can rebuild and get it under a press

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