Compared to most of the projects on here this is probably going to look a bit feeble tbh but o well. It will be good to keep feedback (to help the mechanical retard typing this) in one place etc.

As a student I owned a few 306 weasels and they were excellent cars that fulfilled their purpose of getting me from a to b with minimum costs. I'd always wanted to get back to a petrol at some point it was just that pesky money stuff that got in the way. So after securing my first 'proper' job a 6 was top of the list.

Had the car for about 2 months now and it's been great, no issues so far although I am always worried something serious is going to go wrong and cost me hundreds. I think i need to own a car for a good few months before the new car paranoia wears off completely.

Anyway, enough rubbish.
Overall, pretty tidy, completely standard bar a open filter which is now gone anyway. The body work has a few scuffs around the bumpers, need to investigate how many of these might be able to be polished out. Not on the top of my list at the moment as the car is often parked in shit areas.

Interior is in very good condition. 72k, lots of service history, had a complete head rebuild about 7k ago which cost some poor sod ~£1800.




Plans
Cheap Jobs
- replace clock/temp gauge bulbs DONE - had to get that done straight away, very annoying when you keep glancing at the time out of habit to see nothing.
- install ipodz cable for stereo
- replace manky fogs with rallye blanks DONE
- clean ICV.
- replace hot air sucking k&n with standard airbox/panel filter DONE
- p3 crystal headlights
- p3 side repeaters
- red 106gti door badges
- upper and lower strut brace - upper DONE

non-cheap jobs
- investigate squeak coming from rear beam N/A Seems to have stopped, might have been the rear compensator which was a bit seized, gave it a dose of wd40.
- 30mm eibachs and bilstein dampers.
- Buy some decent tyres.
- some sort of sexy exhaust systemDONE Went to Long Life in the end. Reasonably happy with the outcome. Went for the mild sport option and almost killed myself for the first 2 weeks. MILD SPORT MY ARSE. It was horrific, really droney no matter how carefully you drove. Unless you were booting it above 4k revs then it quietened down and sounded nice. I thought i'd give it time to settle in before going back. About 800 miles later it has quietened down a hell of a lot, nice and burbly with a few small pops when its hot. Sounds epic when giving it the proverbial beans. Still a bit droney at 70 but I think I can live with it.

REPLACING STANDARD AIRBOX
Standard airbox bits.


Green cotton filter.


The breather had come completely off the main inlet pipe so I pushed it through from the inside with a rim of glue. Also sanded it down by a few mm just so it sits flush. I was happy, it seemed fairly solid, good as new.


Got all the airbox pipes fitted up, "now what's left, oh yeah that breather hose...*thinks* OH bo***cks".

The hose is quite a tight fit and there was no way it was going on without forcing the bit of plastic into the main pipe thus ruining my carefully crafted work. I ran out of time that day and had to move the car so I just bodged it on and finished the job properly today.

I think the car definitely feels more responsive and smoother in the lower rev range/around town although that could be due to the k&n being a bit dirty/placebo. Sucking in hot air was never going to do much good though was it...

FOGS
One of the fog lights had gone all manky so I thought i'd just replace them for rallye blanks, every 306 has lights so it's nice to have it stand out a bit. Also think of the precious weight saving


Also gave the car a full service, new wishbones and some of Phil's droplinks which has tightened the front of the car up a bit although it's still not brilliant. I'm not sure if refreshing those suspension bits has shown up the poor tyres/ tired dampers etc?

Latest photos taken today on my crappy phone up on Dartmoor. On the way a women in a car i came up behind gave me the finger for no reason, I hate tail gaiters and normally try to overtake people with as much respect as possible...she got the full throttle and a polite wave out the window






Next on the list is Bilsteins

All comments welcome

Quite a few things off the list sorted now:

Cheap Jobs
- replace clock/temp gauge bulbs DONE - had to get that done straight away, very annoying when you keep glancing at the time out of habit to see nothing.
- install ipodz cable for stereo - DONE
- replace manky corroded fogs with rallye blanks DONE
- clean ICV - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
- replace hot air sucking k&n with standard airbox/panel filter DONE
- p3 crystal headlights - DONE
- p3 side repeaters - DONE
- red 106gti door badges - keeping the standard yellow ones.
- upper and lower strut brace - upper DONE lower DONE

MOT is on Monday so fingers crossed for that. Got a few little jobs to do this weekend like changing gearbox oil, moly greasing drop links/gear linkages.

Couple of crap photos





Can I remove those cable ties on the droplink rubber thing?

thanks! Sorry I just had to sell some Eibachs as I have to drive at a funny angle to get off the drive without scrappage at the moment.

Bit of an update, typically the car broke down with the forum. It wouldn't idle at all from cold but then, once it warmed up a bit it *seemed* ok. Annoyingly on the way home from work it seemed to be getting worse as the car got up to temperature.

Having to constantly keep the revs up in rush hour traffic is good fun I can tell you. Especially at pedestrian crossings :

After a day or two it magically fixed itself although the idle still wasn't great. If you drove very carefully it would be ok but if you put the clutch in at high-ish revs it would probably stall, or just about recover then bounce up to 1500rpm then drop again. It also smelt to be running very rich even when up to temperature.

After reading hundreds of threads on every sensor and running issue on here I thought it could be either the ICV, ECT sensor or possibly lambda.

First port of call was the ICV so I took all that apart and cleaned it up including the throttle body.





Lovely job, can't believe it fired up first time after putting it all back together either.

This seems to have made the idle a hundred times better but sometimes it still smells rich. I've checked the ECT with a multimeter and the readings seem spot on so it could be an intermittent fault or dodgy connection, or maybe it's just me being paranoid about the richness smell? Last time I checked the MPG was about 31 and that's city driving with the odd blast so can't be anything too awry.

Interesting stuff! Recently purchased some VGC genuine Peugeot springs, Bilstein b6's and new top mount kit so will have to get that little lot fitted at some point.

Couple of photos after a quick clean.