Hi Everyone

I come and joined you all and bought an ex-track day 306 to finish converting into a tin-top race car. I was mega-lucky to find it on e-bay and travelled up North yesterday to get it. The guy who had it previously to the vendor had done all the work which saves me loads of grief. It's been fitted with :-

OMP 6-point roll cage
plastic side windows with sliders
AVO suspension with very hard front springs
195/50 x 15 Federal tyres
Cobra and Corbeau wrap-around buckets with Scroth and OMP 4-point out-of date harnesses
Spoox gear change system
Pug-sport Group N engine mount.
New discs all round with Green pads up front and standard ones at the rear
uprated torsion bar
bias valve
cone filter
ECU re-map

From what I can see, I need to fit

battery cut-off switch
new race battery
fire extinguisher
6-point saloon harness [OMP or Sparco]
upper and lower strut braces

Tyres for the 2016 season
spare set of wheels.

Can someone explain how I add pictures to my thread? I have gone into the browse bit, selected a picture, but nothing happens when I post !!

I acknowledge the incredible amount of help given by Dan Abblitt who races one in the MSVR Track-day series. It was seeing his pole position lap time from Brands Indy in 2015 that made me realise this was a good buy.

Also, to Les Beer Motorsport, for picking the car up for me as my tow-bar had not yet been fitted.

If anyone has any 6" x 15" rims for sale at a sensible price, PM me. I live in Bedford.

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Hi Manthos

Thanks for the guidance on photos. I'd be interested in those wheels. PM with a price. I will give you my e-mail address and you can send me a couple of photos of them. I will keep one of the harnesses for the passenger seat as my wife still wants to do a track-day or 2 and I may get myself some extra tuition [you are never too old to learn]

Just want to say how impressed I am with the 306 community and how everyone helps each other out. I am now an old git, having raced for 40 years. But I still have the bug and the need to compete.

Try this link to see other pictures of the car !!

http://s1021.photobucket.com/user/jasagracer/library/?sort=3&page=1

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If you would like better brakes i have some for sale.

And welcome

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I have 4u already

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Hi Guys

It's been a while since I posted due to buying a tatty bigger house and spending the last 5 months knee deep in plaster, wiring, plumbing etc.

Went to Race Retro yesterday, got my race medical done and passed so thought I better get on with the few bits I needed to do for 2018.
Last season showed I was race rusty after 7 years absence. I also had Agrro with my battery cut out as it worked when the engine wasn't running but didn't when it was. Sooo.......

We had 2 hours with the multi-meter this morning and eventually realised that the power feed into the ignition is the 17A red cable. I took a deep breath and cut through it. Safely blanked off the cable from the fuse box and ran a new 17A cable from my race fuse box which runs off the MSA FIA battery cut-out switch. And it worked 1st time !!! So now the 306 is scrutineer legal at last.

Next job : got the angle grinder out and cut off the front metal tow hook. Even more luck, Peugeot had left a hole in the chassis rail that was the right size for an M10 8.8 bolt for the MSA wire tow strap. A quick trip to Screwfix liberated 2 packs of large washer for a M10 bolt for 69p per pack ! Simple bolt in job !!

Just got to install my new wide internal mirror, courtesy of JJC, give the car an oil change and we can venture out to Donnington for the 18th March 750MC meeting.
I will fit the new softer springs to the front after the 1st meeting as time hasn't given me enough weekends to do it.

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Hi fellow enthusiasts. It's been a while since I have updated progress.

We did the 750MC Brands round in April and the car ran like a donkey. No power Etc.
So we bit the bullet and went to see the Motorsport Fairy, I.e. Bee-Cool motorsport in Kettering.

The bank account has taken a spanking but what a difference! The engine has been given a chemical carbonisation clean so the inside is now shiny again, allowing the head to flow properly etc. The injection system has had a major overhaul. I was told there was less oil and sludge on the Torrey Canyon (a super tanker ship wreck in the Scilly Isles for our younger forum members).
The old knackered K and N cone filter was junked and a brand new Jetex has replaced it. Also, a new ally catch tank was squeezed into the engine bay. The ECU has been played with to give better torque as we still run the original road cams.
The suspension has been on the laser-align rig so everything points in the right direction. The engine now runs on Rock race oil. Bloody expensive but well worth it.

The bumper is now easily removable via 4 bonnet pins, which now makes it easier loading the car on and off the trailer.

The question you may be asking is does it go any better?
You bet it does!, Instead of bogging down when you give it some welly, it flies. Spins the wheels in 2nd without any trouble. I am at Croft in a week's time so will give my fellow hot hatch competitors a shock. Instead of being at the back of the grid, we should hopefully be further up towards the sharp end.
I run AR-1 Nankangs on the car and they are the business. I am also changing the front brake pads from DS2500's to EBC yellow ones. I just haven't liked the feel of the 2500's.

I will endeavour to take some pics and load them up onto the forum.

I bumped into Dan at Brands who was also racing. What a nice helpful guy.
Also tripped over another 306 racer whilst doing my day job. He races a circa 250bhp 306 on throttle bodies in the CSCC series. Again, another nice bloke ! He let me look at his car. It proved i am in the right ball-park with mine.

One thing I will say: everyone I have encountered on this forum and who race a 306 have turned out to be top guys.

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Me at Croft

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How’s the racing going?

Nice I’d love to race mine eventually plan is to do some more trackdays and maybe next year go for a race liscence

Did you look into the pug1offpackage in the end? I know one of the guys who Race a 306 as his spare car in the tricolour series had the package and seems to go well

Can’t argue with that more space at home is always a winner. Do you have to stick with a 6 speed? I’ve fitted a 5 speed 205gti gearbox with a 4.4ish final drive from a xsara in which is ideal and fairly cheap certainly compared to a lower final drive for the 6 box

I would just use a xsara vts gearbox. They have the 4:4 FD. You never get into 6th anyway

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Well folks.

After a grotty week at work I managed to get my boss to let me have today off. So we have been working on the race toy.

I cut a new dash out and re-positioned the fuse box so I could install my push-button start panel.

After a few trials and tribulations, we finally got it done. Bought myself one of those tapered drill bits from Car Builder Solutions. Why did I not buy one of them before? Simple way to drill large holes in lightweight metal.

Tidied up the wiring as well. Hey presto; it all works.


As a Welsh ex-work colleague would say "There's tidy for you !"

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Yet another update - 3rd race weekend of 2019; did Castle Combe with the Tricilore guys. Bloody hell; is that track quick or what? in 5th on a BE6 gearbox doing 120mph just before the bumpy braking point at the end of teh main straight.
Quali was rubbish; my fault - fancy meal to celebrate 14 years with my dearly beloved and 2 bottles of good vino.....

Then I discovered that the starter motor had failed, after diving out to the local Halfords in Chippenham to replace the battery. However, the 206 guys are a good bunch and offered to bump start me so instead of loading it up on the trailer and going home, we got to do both races. What sportsmanship.

Managed to finish both races - a couple of battle scars after two racing incidents with 2 of the 206's. In one, I was fighting for track position and neither of us would give way. I am the last of the late brakers, and the 206 I was fighting with braked a second before me and I tagged him sending him into the mud. I apologised to him, but the driver wasn't happy as he is trying to get signatures to upgrade his licence to a Nat A and he went out on lap 3. The second incident was close racing with a mate of mine. We touched; my driver's side to his passenger side. We just laughed and that was it.
Need to get new tyres and am seriously considering Nankang NSR2 instead of my AR-1's. Looking at the way the 206 GTI 140bhp handle on them and talking through their performance with the guy who keeps winning the class, it might help with the handling on my 306.

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