Hi guys, new to the forum, have posted in general to say hi anyway thought id kickstart things off by showing you my cti, brought the car around 7 mths ago, drove 5 hours with my dad to pick it up from the south coast, but with only 3 owners 6mths tax and 12mths mot, at £350 it was worth a drive. I was sipprised at how tidy it was for the money, an old gent owned it, it had a new hood and a shed load of history, which i love sorting thro geek. Interior was very ripped but i picked up a full set of goodwood leather in very good nick for £100. Sorted. I picked up the old school tsw rims cheap, £40 for the set with tyres which look better than the 1.6 rims, Ive still kept these tho for the future. When changeing the wheels i noticed the track rod ends were a bit rusty so i replaced these, the wheel bearings and bottom arms all in one go, oh and stuck some lowering springs on while i was at it. After painting all the shocks etc up it looked good as new under there and felt much better on the road. Then tho i had the problem of the arse end being stuck in the air but just so happened a lad not too far away had a rebuilt 1.9 beam which i got a bargin price of £40 so on it went and it was already dropped.With loveing the 205 so much in such a short time all it was lacking was power so after doing some reading up and watching some youtube vids it was time for a gti6 lump, and lucky for me i found one pulled from a 205 so the loom etc was all done for me, which was a good plus point. Anyway here is some pics of what im upto.

my choice of weapon




The new donkey ( not looking so new )



rocker covers off, strip down and primer


a bit of vht crinkle paint and so handy work with a little brush and i got this.


next for an un known reason other than it looking ugly and it also shaved some weight i attacked a large engine mount, there was a big part on it that im guessing you would use in the 306 but i wont be, so out came the plasma cutter and time to tidy it up



attacked


little bit of nitromourse


primer


and some smoke grey paint i had kicking around


much better i think.
off came the inlet manifold, fitted a new gasket and gave it a lick of paint, also a bit of paint on the head , a clean up of the covers and it looked like this


Today i cut the exhaust manifold ready to reangle it once the engine is in place.

So a week on and its looking much better. Tommrow i will put the rocker covers back on and the engine mount, just waiting on a few parts to come and i plan to start the fitting on thursday so lots more pics to come.

Car looks great with the orange indicators and yellow fogs.

Good choice with the red wrinkle paint... where have i seen that before... ;-)

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

dont the 205 conversions use a power steering pump then? or do you put it somewhere else?

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Phase 1 GTI 6 1996-1997
Subaru Impreza GB270 2007-2008
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same day international courier

nice LTS, i have a DH

Hi guys, a little bit more done today, had a few jobs to get done around the house so didnt get much time but a few pics of what i did get done.

rocker covers on




plug cover cleaned up and fitted




my shiney engine mount on



quick pic of the old donkey , soon to be removed


And my next few parts to tackle and clean up ready to go back on




And last but no least this arrived today, a mate of mine off here kev ordered it for me as he noticed mine on the engine wasnt in great nick so good excuse to get a posh shiney one


And thats it for today, hopefuly get a little more done tommrow

cheers buddy. I bet you carnt, would be so nice to drive it in somewhere and drive it home done carnt wait till thursday now so i can realy get this project going, and even more i carnt wait to drive it finished.

Just been back threw some old posts on 205drivers
and its M12 1.5 thread you need

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/12MM-BANJO-10MM-HOSE-M12x1-5-BOLT-FUEL-OIL-/310320928974?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item48409198ce

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

cheers kev, will get onto that and get some more bits ordered, is it also right that i need a 306 throttle cable?

K22wes- good mate, hopefuly mine will put a grin on my face too. Im useing my 1.6 box thats already on my car for now, if in the future it chews it then will upgrade it to a vts box or something but for the time being i think mine will be fine as its a good box.

Love it love it this is retro cool especially love the yellow fogs I have been thinking about doing yellow fogs on my 6. Very nice project like what you've done with the engine to

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now a very happy an proud GTi6 owner!

TEAM: Blaze phase 2
TEAM: Off the road for now

Nimrods going up 4 sale will be available in the next week! Pm if interested.

well guys this all got fitted a little fast, its all in and done, will get a few pics up tommrow

Looks really nice, the bonnet lifters look gash as feck imo

Loving the yellow fogs too

hi guys, another update, not got much done this weekend due to crap weather but here is waht i did do.
My filter was sitting right under my top hose, prety much squashing it so i got to work with some ali pipe and my tig welder and created this hardpipe to relocate it, much better now





with that fitted i took a trip to the scrappy to find a few parts. My leccy windows work when they want and not very often so i decided to rip them out, save some weight and the hassel.


out with the old

in with the new



much better, can put my windows down now when i want not what the car wants

Then i thought id spice things up a bit and took my jigsaw to my bonnet, needless to say i had a few strange looks from passers by woundering why i was cutting my car up






still got to finish the aerocatches as rain today has stopped play, only one mod done today and that was this.


new ones brought for a bargin price of £5 from car boot sale thismorn.


And thats it for today. Hopefuly tommrow i will be ready to start makeing myself a nice posh ali headertank, ive also got a nice new fusebox to fit to tidy up under the bonnet. More pics to follow

cheers mate, been doing it 9 years now, going to make an alloy fuel tank for my boot shortley with swirl pot setup.