mechanical_repairs
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Well its not a full on project but more a tidy up and make it look a bit more presentable.i dont know if any one will remember the old girl but i bought it a good year ago now and have used it in anger at a few uk tracks and had some great fun in it.
my thinking now is to make it look a bit better on the eye and sell it for someone else to have some fun with it.
Car as it started, a 1989 cherry red 1.9, it was once owned by a chap (jamie tonks) who had it fully race prepped ect and i did some engine work to it when it had a gti6 lump fitted, a little vague but it was then sold on and it popped the original gti6 lump, fast forward a year or two and i bought it as a fully track ready low boost supercharged 205 (did i mention it has a 1.6 gearbox!!), i basically put some cash his way and done a swop with a nice 306 gti.
now dont get me wrong the car goes like a rocket and handles like a dream but sweet jesus it looks a heap of s**t, everytime i turned up at a race event etc you had a few snide remarks and basically people just laughed, not so funny when the car is driving great and it keeping up with them oh and when it rains passing the odd bmw csl, that was funny.
I also browse ebay and see what pops up in the peugeot range and always have been on the look up for front end parts for this, after searching for many months i found a lower gti valence (in cherry red but it looks orange now) and a blue grill. fast forward to last wednesday and i get a second chance offer for a complete cherry red 205 automatic, basically put it means i have all the front end parts i require.
Well first thing this morning i set off to oxford to collect, i get there at 7am and it was still frosty, the owner tells me the cars history and how its been cherished etc (i darnt tell him my plans for it) and off back home i went.
so we have this-
Bog standard 205 auto, 76k miles and three owners
What a beast
and this-
Not to sure how many owners but I can imagine its been given death every time it's started.
Stripped down the super charged 205 and swopped over the bonnet, removed the front make shift grill and offered up the standard item, it drastically improves the looks, going to have to replace the intercooler with something either a little smaller or just a different size. Unsure whether I will be refitting the bonnet pins.
As you can see the headlights have also seen better days, the auto 205 I bought has an invoice for a replacement pair fitted just over two years ago so that's a result. Even better they are genuine items
Well I removed the lights from the supercharged unit and all the adjusters are seized and the holding brackets on the indicators are also damaged, managed to remove the ones from the donor, these must have been replaced at the same as the head lights as these are in great condition.
At this point I realised we had a little bit of tin worm action, I am going to completely strip the front and clean it up to see what's what, I feel a few repairs will be needed and some paintwork afterwards
Why does every job turn into a money pit, I cant just forget it so its going to get sorted.
Well that's it for today, been quite productive really.
Carl
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Posted 28th Apr 2013 at 17:48
