Well I thought i'd stick a ongoing project thread up for my car.

I bought it at 88k from Carl 12th September 2010 and loved it since. Still puts a huge smile on my face, however the suspension has now seen much better days, and now im no longer a student I can treat it a bit.
Here it is as it was when i got it. Since then its had GTI-6 badges on the doors, I've used plastic polish to sort the crystals out and its had new (albeit depo) fogs.

I've done quite a few little jobs to it, New fuel 90 degree pipe (My least favourite 3-4 hours of my life), Attempted and failed fitting the hybrid arb as the tear shape part of the beam was properly fused to the old arb.
Fitted a Crank pulley (Lightened one form rich_w)
The new fogs as said (WHICH WAS A PAIN)
New aerial and base
Bought a new 6 gear nob to freshen up the interior and made myself chocks for the upper mount.
New injector seals
Serviced it several times with Fuchs oil
New radiator mounts
A few new sensors and electrical bits
Fitted Peugeot tweeters in the mirror blanks
Nothing major just many little jobs.

However now im starting to accumulate the stuff I need to completely rebuild the suspension front and back.

As it stands its only going to be left with the uprights and front arb and bushes.

The set up will be as follows
Bits i've got:
New peugeot Top Mounts and bearings
New 79mm bumpstops
New dustcovers for shocks
New Peugeot 306 estate/xsara vts torsion bars (On Back order coming from france monday)
Hybrid arb
Baker BM mounts
Phillip M strut brace
C2R2 Brake adaptors and bolts


Bits I need to get (Trying to get genuine peugeot where I can but if not then lemforder with regards to mushes etc)
Most likely a Bilstein B12 pro kit (Inculdes front B8s and rear b6's with eibach -30mm springs)
A new /Refurbed beam built with the above TB's, mounts and ARB
Peugeot Wishbone bushes (Likely to be the Partner van alloy type) and ball joints (Lemforder)
Lemforder droplinks pending price of genuine.
New track rod ends and rods (Lemforder)

Thought I would freshen up the spoiler with the plastidip I bought the other day,
while i was there I coated the mounts a few times too as well as the hybrid arb.

Before:


After:



Arb and mounts:


Mounts upclose:



everything i have at the mo for my new Struts

C2R2 brake adaptors:



Wont be using those for a little while though

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Ex- Phase 3 China GTi-6 T-Reg

Yeah I just used up what I had left really. I'm going to try and get some good rust protecting paint if I can and put that on.

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Not much to report, Still waiting on the money for the shocks and springs and due to that cant get my beam built yet which is a shame.

However i've picked up some miles gear rods which should do me for a while

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Literally want to shoot this car with a f**king huge shotgun at the moment
The exhaust is really f**ked now.
The rear mounts are f**ked
The cooling system is pretty f**ked
the wishbone bushes are f**ked.

I'm not sure im going to have the time to do anything myself now, I may be forced to just put it in the garage and be absolutely shafted..

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Most of that can be done in a weekend,don't line someone elsrs pockets mate bust the spanners out!

I'm in Hackney Wick right by the Olympic stadium, after the games have finished I can do some of that for you

Fairly standard for the oil temps to rise when pressing on bud. Mine rises when i really open the taps but it soon drops back down to below 90oC when i back it off again. If yours it getting dangerously high though then it could be due to your dicky cooling system.

Even when flat out mine won't pass 120oC and the danger point isn't until 150oC iirc.

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Team Nile 6
Team: 40.2 MPG
5 x a 306 owner!
currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
midweek madness

Also the speedo has started skipping up in steps rather than being smooth sometimes now

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Coolant needs changing really, its 26k old
My rad is a bit s**tty tbh and im using 10w50 fuchs

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Nope its just that I rag the s**t out of it so I figured I might as well get an oil that is strong when hot.
The cams look very well for it too when you pear through the oil filler at one

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Tbh i was thinknig of swapping to the 5w40 soon anyway. (they do the same oil in that grade)

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Nothing exciting just a slight bit of piece of mind,

check rallyeashs post here
http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=146149

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I said above

Basically its just a metal replacement for the s**tty plastic elbow that connects to the thermostat

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