First time poster but not a first time car I think

Blue track car, guys called Tom used to have it? I have done a day at Snett and it handled lovely but felt a little sluggish. But I have never driven one before so I didn't really know if it was me.

OK ran it on rollers near Aylesbury, rollers are reputable, a few mates have had solid runs and accurate figures there.

Car is an 01 GTI-6, totally standard apart from a horrid powerflow which will be going soon lol! Too old for all that racket!

Now, I was horrified to only get 138 flywheel bhp, well down on standard. I would have expected a small drop off on a 90k motor but not 30hp.

Car is well looked after, serviced well, nothing obvious, no oil burn, CO was fine from lambda readings so not overly rich or lean, doesn't miss or anything. I was runnin Momentum which might be a bit tough on standard ECU but shouldn't make that much difference.

Only issue was a small pipe from the main cold air feed was split meaning a loss of air maybe. Pic attached, (sorry for file size Iphone noob!!)

Other than that suggestions have been timing, a blocked injector? cambelt was only done in Nov so possible bad fitment? Maybe this air filter etc is an issue?

I live in Stevenage, any Pug friendly forum garages that are close to here? Might pop down to ACe if someone wants a peek!

Great forum guys, so much cool help here

Welcome to the club!

Your issues sound like slightly off cam timing to be honest.

It's very easy to do on these engines, and as you say it felt a bit sluggish on the trackday.
Personally, I would check the cam timing, change the plugs and make sure that the old ones look ok and not too rich or lean and look at what air filter you have. Open air filters tend to suffer with heatsoak.

Good luck!

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"Supercharged - 454.1bhp/317.5lb/ft"
Peugeot 306 GTi-6
2000 (X), Moonstone

Which rollers did you use near aylesbury?

I did use DSA actually, througha friend who had a decent result? Boke didn't know too much about these though.

To be honest I am new to these cars, and the horror show of knowing even its the right engine I wouldn't have a clue!

Is there an easy tell!!

I am thinking cam timing, am not a grease monkey so wouldn't have a clue about spannering! Might have to find a friendly garage somewhere nearby!

Thanks for the tips though, throttle cable deffo is a good one!

Wrong engine is bad lol!

Had mine on rollers at AMD in essex which are very accurate as they have race teams using them. cam timing was out enough that once i removed the engine and took the head off, the inlet valves had been just about kissing the tops of the pistons.

this was some years ago and it still made 158bhp running on vpower with straight through exhaust and induction after 120,000 plus miles. There was a big flat spot at 3-4k and it made all of its power at the limiter when it should be a fair bit lower.
Yet to hear one of these engines make that little power to be honest. Do some research on crank pulley failure before you get the belt timing checked . Also as said a set of plugs and a service wouldn't go a miss.

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Sounds like an Xsi !! Thats pretty much the hp mine made years ago!

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You are right roland

Had some great feedback and help, was a little worried reading back some of Toms posts about messing with cam timing etc, I just wanna standard "milk float" for a bit of easy track work, she handles like a beaut!

Well travelled old Hector then? For an XSI !

So being a numbnut here

If it hasnt got a 10 or a 7 there it is a pukka gti6 engine!

Or something like a 205 1.1

or a diesel!

Can you post a picture of the graph? What is the full spec of the thing?

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That is so low! Loss of compression then is say!!!!

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Well the power did tail off around that area, and sadly the wheels figure was even lower. I was delighted when I saw the figure initially as I thought that's not bad at wheels! Bugger

Am going to do some digging soon I hope, but as I don't drive it daily its fine as it is!

Could be compression, could be cam timing, if its comp its likely gasket or something, which sucks ass.

Doesn't use much water but sadly rad was not full when I checked even though it runs cool, so doesn't look great from that point of view. But no mayo or oily smell in water. but it uses water not freeze which again is not a great sign.

But could the timing be out that much without damaging the engine? I think it's have shat itself by now.

Compression being low could very easily be the cause for that's sauce power loss. We're talking 29bhp

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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

Not necessarily, you can probably retard it enough to do that. Advance can get 14+ lbft but you are really close on the margins.

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