Hey there.

So I've been thinking for a while about whether to have a track car, whether to save my Fiesta and use that for that for track or buy another Evo and have a fast car for the road.

After many months of trying to decide I was offered a Peugeot 306 GTI6, I know many hate them, and tbh I aint a massive fan of them.

But when I was thinking about having a track car this was on my list of possibilities.

List

Clio 1*2
205 GTI
306GTi 6
BMW E36 328i

I ended up with the GTI6 mainly due to it coming from a friend, and picked it up for a cool £450 with a rebuilt engine with 30k on it.

So anyway. The car.

Day 1

Upon Arrival













I started stripping the interior pretty much as soon as I got it, bar from giving it a quick wash.

It isn't much progress but the car didn't arrive until late afternoon, so I did the best I could with the time I had available to me.



Its just literally the rear half thats been stripped.

The very same nick.

Funny you should reply, I was gunna message you the other day about Martins 306. I can remember when he took me out at Donnington all them years ago.

You still got your 205?

I see you've come over to the dark side at last... You will have massive fun in that, Martin (crf450) and Allanallan from off of here do loads of machined goodies to make 'em handle brilliantly, drop him a message if you need owt.

Nick

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AKA nick on 205gtidrivers.com

Aha so you got Stevens car?


I have a bumper for you so you can loose the tow bar by the way.


Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

Yes I have a bumper, you can have it for £30, the cossie is great, problem Is it gets too much un wanted attention.

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

Day 2

Please excuse the lack of detailed photo's, but we had a job on.

Cage.

Some minor teasers.

Made some progress today in a relatively small space of time.

GOODIES




Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Day 5(half day)

Was pretty much on my own for most of it, didn't make as much progress as I would of liked as the front suspension put up a bit more fight than I was expecting tbh.

But the new KW's are finally on, I had some more other bits I should of done first, but its nice to see some shiny bits on the car, most of the stuff I've done isn't really worthy of any pictures tbh. I rebuilt the rear beam..........but thats it, I didn't paint/powder coat it or anything, as there's no point to me.

Anyway, after a bit of a struggle with the fronts, I need 2 new pinch bolts and 2 new drop links as I pretty battered them in my rock ape ways.

So parts will be on order Monday ready for next Saturday, which should see the brakes being put back on with some new fluid. And i'll be running the following setup.

Standard calipers
Brembo solid discs
m1155 fronts
m1144 rears
ATE Superblue Dot4

Will see how this setup fairs, but will possibly upgrade to brembo 4 pots / kad 6 pots or something similar.

I also want some new wheels, maybe some black pro race 1.2's, but I just cant bring myself to get them, my standard cyclones can do the job, so why change them? I could spend the money else where...like paying for a track day / fuel and just generally using it.


Pics, again very boring but not a lot to show, but the eagle eye theres some minor tell tale signs of other happenings in the unit, see if you can spot them.





My bargain almost brand new KW's



Cage shot



Messy, unfinished interior

Looking good mate, will keep an eye on this

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

thanks, will be good for its first outing soon!

It will be Donnington tbh as its only about 15-20 mins away from me

Donnington Park



So 18-7-14 saw my first track day in the 6 and indeed just driving it, I've had the car a year, and Friday was the first time ever I had driven it over 30mph.

So I was a little apprehensive in going out in it.

The day before was a bit manic as I was stressing about making sure I had everything ready, as this was the first time on a track day where I was 'trailering' my track car.

But with the day looming I lay in bed convincing myself something was going to go wrong, or forgetting something important etc and as usual I couldnt getting any sleep, with excitement nerves etc.

Arising in the morning I was greeted with rain, and upon arriving at the circuit and unloading the car the heaven's opened and it was absolutely slashing it down.

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Morning sessions

It was pretty tip toey in the morning seeing as the track was wet and my brakes hadnt even been bedded in, I just set about putting in some laps and slowly winding the pace up as the track started to dry out and I grew in confidence with the car. Was pretty boring tbh so not a lot to report. But just before lunch I was lapping in the 1.30's to 1.35's seems a bit silly timing myself, but I wanted to lay down a reference and something to better after lunch.

Afternoon

After lunch the track was bone dry, and I went out for a few quick laps without my trusty passenger, came back in altered tyre pressures and stiffened up my KW's.

I was just trying to get some laps in and carry on learning the car, what gears to use in which corners, as this is my first time on track using a 6 speed box, where as in my old white fiesta I knew what to use and where to use it.

By late afternoon I was getting in the groove and dialling in some quicker lap times, unfortunately these weren't recorded as my gopro battery died. I was hitting low 1.27's which I thought weren't to bad.

Anyway after shifting through my gopro footage, this is the only video thats slightly worth posting, just before lunch this was so weren't my fastest or most confident.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBVHN3QM788[/url]



Final Thought

There's plenty of room for improvement, car and driver.

Need more seat time.


PS- any advice with the contrast settings etc with the gopro, cant see the track at all.........