As if it was going to fail!!!!!

Just clocked over 5000 miles in my Rallye since got it on road in Febuary

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

looks very nice (Y)
Keep it simple and beautiful always

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My Channel EREL

Peugeot 306 GTi-6 N5 / PH2 / Diablo Red / Mustang Red Cloth (Sold )

Peugeot 306 GTi-6 N5 / PH3 / Diablo Red / Alcantara Suede

Peugeot 306 GTi-6 N5 / PH2 / Bianca (Sold )

Just read this thread (well skimmed, looking at photos).

Awesome project and the car looks stunning!

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danposs86's GTi-6

Christ on a bike.... lets have an update!!

I purchased some C5 steelies off the welsh pocket rocket AKA Spiky some time ago, and finally got round to doing something with them. They were painted a nice shade of electrolux white as in the pic..



I cleaned them all with Bilberry wheel cleaner, and scuffed them up with a scotchpad.

Once scuffed up i gave them a good coat of Bilt Hamber Etch primer.



Once primed, I painted them in Steel Silver, then 2 coats of laquer.



These are the much fabled C5 wheel bolts/fitting kit!






So, the upshot of a couple of hours in the garage is I have 3 wheels painted, one in primer (run out of bloody silver ), and some nice bargain Toyo R888's coming next Tuesday.

Need to get the oil cooler ordered next, and get the bumper off to fit it properly, and source some better track biased pads. Im thinking DS3000's as i have always been very heavy on brakes on trackdays in the past 11 years.

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

That steel silver looks a lovely colour

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Bye bye Sundance Kid

The Citroen C5 wheels are all painted now, managed to find a set of Peugeot Partner van centre caps to fit (when using them on the road LOL)




Next thing that has always bugged me is the way the rear silencer is visable under the back of the car, like thus..



So, in order to "subtle" it up a bit, i whipped the rear box off the car..



Scuffed it up, etch primed it then painted it with 3 coats of VHT satin black paint.




Leaving a before and after of....



Next job is the group N lower engine mount bush (Baker Bushes one), with a genuine Pug top engine mount, both going on Tuesday evening.

The oil cooler kit should be here mid week, so that will mean the bumper off and some carefull positioning / measuring going on soon.

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

Bugger you for noticing, its being adjusted on tuesday Kev!

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

Think my back box has had a new tip at some point, it's on wonky. The tip is lined up straight now bu the box looks to be hanging squinty.

Might paint mine black too, saying that I'm looking for a new tip as mine's all corroded and 'orrible looking. Shame as the back box is in good nick itself.

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Bye bye Sundance Kid

Just had half hour in the car, now with brutal gear changes and harsh on/off throttle gives a much more solid feeling, before you could feel the whole engine move.

Downside is the vibration. Not too bad on tickover but 1200 - 1400 rpm does make itself felt through the whole car. Have i read somewhere that the Baker bushes eventually settle down and soften up a tiny amount?? Hope i have LOL!

Eitherway its liveable and will be a lot better on track where you are on/off the gas a lot more than on the road.

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

I love the look of those steelies Matt. They look fantastic with those centre caps! Do you have any piccys of them fitted to the car yet?

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Not quite yet Dan, i've got some Federal 595 RS-R trackday tyres on order, once those have been fitted i'll get some pics up.

I did try the bare wheel on the car the other night, and they just look small, compared to the 16" Compomotives. Not a huge amount of brake clearance either...

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

Where's the pics of the steelies then?

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About time we had an update.

It was about this time last year that i started the suspension / beam rebuild on the shitter and at the time I decided that i'd like to go to the same lengths in the engine bay.

Yes i'd made a superficial effort to tidy the bay up with moderate success, however its only going to be possible by stripping the bay empty of mechanicals and starting from scratch.

I'd also got a niggling weep of oil from the rear main oil seal so i may as well strip it and refresh the engine as well.

Got some pics of what ive been doing so far.

Engines out and stripped on the bench, Start of at the bottom and work up.

Sump fixing bolts before and after.







The sump itself has been cleaned, prepped, etch primed, painted and then laqured, along with the sump plug being Zinc plated



Rear water housing before and after.

Before




After




Front plate that supports the engine loom / water pipe

Before



After




More soon.....

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow