Well, after owning my yellow VTS for over 6 years I was in the hunt for an A/C system, as the first buyer had to decide whether he wants A/C OR sunroof for free, and he chose the latter And this means in the 35°C or even more we have here during summer it was pretty uncomfortable to drive this thing.

So I was ont he hunt for a donor car from which I could transplant the A/C from. Enventually I found this silver VTS at the end of May. (from this point the most is copy+paste from CXOC, so excuse the mistakes if there's any )

The car cost me 140.000Ft, which is equal to 410GBP. In this price the seller also transported the car to my home, which is quite good, considering the car was sold with a bad engine, and it was 200kms away from me! Billy bargin!

When it arrived I've seen the potential in it for the first blink. Eventhough the exterior was battered, had a flat tyre and curbed alloy, the front grill was missing, there was a huge dent in the boot, and basically it was looking quite sorry for itself it semmed like under this skin a good car is hiding, as it has straight sills, nice interior etc.

The car was sold as a 1.8 16V, and the seller even commented about how much more expensive the car would have been if it was a 2.0 16V, as they are more powerful and rare! It was hard to hold my laughter!

It was originally used in Austria in Wien, where it developped a fault so it was taken to a "workshop". they weren't able to fix the fault, and as the owner did not pay them he left the car there, and those idiots bas**rdised the boot, the glovebox as they only had the valet key which does not open these
They removed all the audio gear, and then the car was sold to the guy I bough it from. He tried to fix it too, but without success.

When I received the car it ran on 3 cylinders. Opening the hood revealed that they fitted a new Valeo coilpack. Out with the plugs, and there were four Motorcraft conical plugs instead of washered plugs We put four new and correct plugs in there but it made no real difference. Off with the coilpack plugs one by one, and it was clear that eventhough they found the problem, which was a faulty coilpack, they put the new in place of a good working one, leaving the faulty in place

I swapped that one out with one from my yellow VTS and guess what! All cylinders started running All in all did not take us more than 10mins to fix the car...



The following picture was taken after the wash and wheel cleaning, and it's already looking good:






I hoovered the interior once, but it was necessary to it once more as it was awful inside:








It didn't even have a gear knob - I fitted the MOMO I had in the garage.

Once I've binned the litter it was already better, and in the meantime my father fixed the boot lock which those bas**rds managed to ruin.

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

On the following day I refit the hanging front splitter. Then it was time to do all the necessary servicing:



Fresh Motul oil (no need for the über expensive 300V-Power in this car, the "simple" will do well - still better than the rest out in the market), new filters, a track rod end, all new wishbone bushes - from the hardest type, the rears are the revised ally housing Berlingo items, and on the top of this they were filled with polyurethane. Once they were in my father set the tracking.

Not pictured, but also bought a timing belt kit with Gates belt, and Ruville (french) tensioner and idler pulleys, and a new water pump. The belt it had one was not old at all, but it was so tight it nearly screamed! So it had to go, as adjusting the tension is a no-no on a belt like this.

The power steering oil was drained, the system flushed, reservoire cleaned and filled with fresh Castrol TQ ATF Dexron II.

I took the car to a friend of mine to regas the A/C system which held the pressure as it should, no leaks detected so he drained the gas which will go back into the system once it's transfered into my yellow VTS

When it got back home I shortened the accelerator cable, as Citroen uses the same length for both the LHD and RHD cars, so on mine it does a loop before going to the throttle body, thus it's ridiculously hard. Now it's trimmed, and goes in a near straight line, and it's smooth and soft

After this we fabricated a front upper brace from what we had at hand. Csaba gave me two endpieces a few weeks ago, and we found a VERY light pipe which we used for this purpose. Bent it right where the oil cap is to make sure it clears it, and it was welded onto the endpieces. We made a recess where the belt cover is. All in all took us around 20-25 mins to do + painting.










I also ordered a new front grill, but as now the chevrons and all of the other manufacturer badges are copyrighted they do not supply them with the parts :idiot2: So my father cut the middle part out, and made this:

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

Then I removed all the A/C stuff, so the front end looked like this:




I also removed the tar sheets:







There are additional two on the firewall, two in each door, and also one on each side in the boot. They don't weight too much, but every little count!

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

Interior loom waiting for stripdown:





So it was time to do the inside wiring loom. Just as said above it's partially finished, yet I still managed to remove shedloads of wires:





Partially finished loom:

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

Looking good - I like the strut brace design. Solid-looking with no useless pivots or heavy adjusters, and as straight as possible.

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Cherry Rallye SOLD

Thanks! It will be more interesting from this point

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

Brakes wise I want to do just a basic upgrade, consisting of ABS removal, Mintex M1144 pads, Motul RBF660 fluid and the following:

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

dash is also handy place to put the heater controls

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need a part number? get on here - http://public.servicebox.peugeot.com

Bring on the Trumpets.

It is! They will go back in place once I'll have the battery cut-off switch, and the starter button / IGN switch - these two will replace the original ignition switch not because I can save weight, but I can sell the original item

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

Today I trimmed the front bumper to save a bit of weight. The following picutre shows the amount of plastic cut out:




Then here's the finished bumper without the plastic inserts:

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

In the last couple of days when I had a bit of free time I fabricated a middle switch panel for the car. It houses the heater controls, the cut off and ignition switches, and the starter button - which will be replaced with a round unit soon, as I only had this square button at home!





The panel is made of 4mm polycarbonate.

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

Jónapot!

Thanks mate, I have a few new pics!

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VTS
best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

Team Trackday™

Nice project
If you search there is a thread where someone has cut the front off their inlet manifold to gain access to the inside & port it properly then welded it back up, apparently the same as the btcc cars had.
Your dad is a handy chap!

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