lj_6
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Evening everyone, well I thought about now was the time to start a progress thread, seeing as I am now back into a 306 (you really can't get away from them)
I originally joined the forum when I was using my mums old moonstone '6, I moved off from this a few years ago to which my brother is now using.
I used to love the old 306, used to give off a lot of smiles!
This is what I'm currently driving, astra Nurburgring edition #365, something I always wanted.
One cheeky picture to show is when you fully catch a modding bug,
After a big turbo failure, I ended up fully rebuilding the engine and installing a Garret gtx2867r - should be mapped in the not too distant future for just under 400bhp.
Anyways enough of that!
Earlier in the year me my brother and my dad, decided it would be a good idea to get a track car, something to have some fun in since a few of the family friends also do it. It would be a decent laugh.
We managed to get a 206 gti already stripped, with wietec full suspension, seats etc ready to track , wack on some r888's it's been a good summer using the car, suprising that a car with just an air filter could go so well.
Few pictures from our last track day at Coombe:
But it just needed that extra bit of power out of the corners. We did toy with the idea for some throttle bodies, or planting a '6 lump in as the car was pretty spot on.
We ended up buying a full track prepped '6 on ebay, many of you seen it too I think.
(one thing I will say is the previous owner helped us a lot after buying it)
The original pictures:
When the car was picked up and bought home it looked pretty spot on, it needed a decent polish, and some new fuel tubing and it should have been on it's way.
Unfortunately things don't always go that easy.
When we jacked the car up to get an idea of the brakes, they were non existant, which wasn't a problem, but it led to more and more problems.
Something which could pretty much only be seen after having a poke around in the bottom, we uncovered a lot of rust.
I'll let the pictures do the talking:
The rust was pretty much set in entirely. The sill was rotten with a gaping hole in, also the box section has a hole in, there were many holes etc, but what caught the biggest part of it was when I removed the carpets and poked by the roll cage:
Entire side was rotten meaning any form of pressure it would have gone straight through the floor pan.
After weighing up the time/cost of cleaning the body work back and getting it plated and painted. We realised it was just too much work. And that it wasn't worth it.
It looked the best option to get a decent shell, and swap everything over we could. And make a decent track car and one we could say we built up.
This is where the real hastle began, I didn't want to get a road going '6 as fair enough they arent a Ferrari but they are getting rarer, as luck would have it, I managed to find one with a head gasket failure, '99 Bianca white with a decent shell.
The only issue it was located in Aberdeen (could not get any further away)
In the end after debating a long drive with the trailer, managed to get it delievered down for only £350, was never worth trying to get up there!
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures at the moment when it first was delievered.
But the past few weeks have managed to make a good start on the car and get it stripped with the engine out, heres a few pictures of it:
Engine out and stripped:
Hopefully will be able to rebuild at a later date and keep as a spare as it's pretty low mileage and saves anything in the future.
The head gasket was well and truly gone, a lot of mayo in the water ways, its a wonder it didn't go pop.
Anyway over the past week me and my brother have managed to get a decent job with stripping the titanic down,
bumper off, rad etc. also found the support the rad sits on was rotten and fell to pieces:
The plans for the car, are to rebuild it completely with new bushes & mountings etc, swap the roll cage over and all the other fun bits, also sort the wiring out under the engine bay as it's a complete mix up at the moment. But that can be done when the engine is back in.
I have however been buying early! lol
Managed to get a maniflow manifold off here:
Also richw's pas relocation kit, 23mm tb's - hybrid arb off here.
Also some new braided brake lines.
It's gonna take a fair few new bits so is easier to build up the parts pile and get it all done whilst it's all apart at the moment.
I have given the sub frame a lick of paint, didn't go for powdercoating as it won't be a show winner, but I wanted to tidy it all up, as will also do around the engine bay give that a blow over.
I shall keep this updated though!
Will be doing things to both cars as and when with work!
Apologies for the long post though!
Any comments are appreciated,
thanks
LJ
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Astra burg #365 Garrett Power'99 bodied 6 track project
Posted 21st Oct 2014 at 20:56
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