Investigated the rocking passenger seat this morning to find that the genius who installed them only put 2 of 4 bolts in the 306 runner, neither of which were tight.

Also found that the seat rails they were mounted too were genuine Cobra, which was nice, and that they were using 10mm spacers which I removed on both seats as i felt they were a little high for my liking. I'd banged my nogging a couple of times already on the cage.

Got a couple of cars to sort out first which will see attention diverted away from the Rallye for about a month I expect, whilst I continue to hoard parts. Still trying to sell the last of the Rover parts which is time consuming.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

6 box is way to long for most uk tracks

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230 hp 2.1 16v XU 205 rallye on jenveys Project thread here
309 3dr K20 Type R

I want it because I find the 6 box far too much fannying around. 3rd and 4th are a bit like "wtf did I put it back in the same gear?" as i'm used to ridiculously long gearing on my old Rover (was geared to like 185 or something). It's personal preference really but after driving Berger's Xsara and spending time on track with him in it I preferred the ratios. It will compliment the charger i'll be slapping on in good time.

Oh, it also eliminates the stupid right lock, which doesn't compute in my brain after using a HDi for so many miles a week.


This thread will seem slow going for a bit (certainly the next month) but hopefully it will contain a few more juicy bits over the coming months) that make a worthwhile read.

I gave it a quick wash this afternoon and it really needs some paint correction, it's covered in odd grey marks and things. My friend will help me with this.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Bbbbbut you have added 500g of weight to the car!!!!!!

Will never handle now!

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Bang'in 7 gram rocks!
I have one gear, GO!

Door cards are carbon fibre, they came with the car.

The mould is there as my co-pilot. It'll get a good wash and scrub up in a while when I get a good weekend, got lots of stuff to do before i worry about making it look mint lol. I've got a house full of car parts again.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

i hav ehte windows now, hopefully they look ok fitted lol

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In my garage just now

2003 BMW M3 & 2009 L200 Raging Bull
& Audi Q5 S Line
AX stock rod & Saxo Stock rod
Sold the bike an charged rallye an bought a caravan, midlife crisis or what!

Finally managed to start getting to work on the Rallye today having dealt with numerous other things first. I've also managed to cover it in dirty hand prints and the cats helped out with a few dirty paw prints. Heh.

Got my crystals on:


Got my P3 repeaters on there:

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Had a bit of a subdued weekend so spent a bit of time sorting bits out as it's a bit of a mobile skip at the moment, full of various parts destined either for the Rallye or to be sold.

I prepared some Phase 3 rubstrips during the week, so fitted those and cleaned 10 years of ming from behind the old ones.



I'm very pleased with how it's looking at the moment, especially considering all the cosmetic stuff on the outside didn't cost me anything.

I've managed to sort out the non functinoning dash lights which is very pleasing. It transpires that the rheostat completes the circuit whether it's there or blanked, and the previous owner in his wisdom binned it. As a result I had no lights, glad that it's an easy fix as electrics are not my forte. Ironic for a power station engineer but that's why I work with the turbine not the generator.

I took the front bumper off to refit the splitter and do a sort of smart repair all the gravel rash, and rectify the missing splitter. Don't suppose anyone has a drivers Rallye blank kicking about?

Tried out my new jetwash to blast all the crap out from the arches and the engine bay which was mildly toxic it was so filthy. Should make stripping it down less of a chore, as i'm taking steps to get the new lump ready to drop in. The car has obviously lived under a tree or something at some point as there was inordinate amounts of moss and ming in all of the seals and shuts. I got half a field out of the rear window. :S

Hope to take my subframe to the powdercoaters tomorrow lunchtime, with a view to having it returned for the weekend so I can build it up. I need to make a start taking the engine out, but I have a lot of things to do both in and out of work at the moment so progress is by no means moving at the pace i'd like it to and still learning Peugeots so i'm not the quickest at some jobs.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Looks like a good project. Good luck with the hand prints i always end up with finger prints on mine even when im being careful

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"If you ain't first, you're last!"

306 1.4
mini city E
306 gti 6
205 gti 1.9
306 Rallye

i'd rather have some boots on there to protect the piston from damage.
stone hits piston = nick in piston = damaged seal = leaking damper

edit, see you've just updated the thread and ordered some boots

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230 hp 2.1 16v XU 205 rallye on jenveys Project thread here
309 3dr K20 Type R

The Gaz rears used to come with some blue polyurethane dust boots, however, as the suspension articulates they tend to rub any muck on the bottom of them against the damper body and strip the coating off, and then they rust. They weren't flexible/collapsable like the original boots are.


My old pair did that, which is why they removed them, and revised the shaft lip seal so there's an extra wiper underneath to prevent dirt ingress on the rod.
They can also squeak against the damper body when it's dry and warm - cooper666 has what appears to be the same problem with his Avo's.
Tbh, with the location of the rear dampers the chances of a big enough stone hitting with force to chip the rod is low enough that you can get away without them.



Lovely job on that subframe though.

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So I took it out this morning for a shake down and picked up a few things I wanted to correct/investigate during the engine change. I have suspension issues somewhere, it likes to wander under braking. No doubt the roller wishbones will cure that.

Thought she looked alright, albeit in dire need of a wash:



So good in fact I drove it home and pulled it apart. Found me a GTi6 on the way back to base to toy with, he was impressed I was pulling away in a straight line, with a sewing machine on full slipper in front of me.

So I started making tracks in the engine bay, got the box oil and engine oil out first - worrying this required this bit of kit to get the sump plug off:


Retards.

This is a sample of the ming i've got to get rid of (post jet washing the bay!):






Just carried on at my own little pace. I'm still learning so I wasn't out to break any speed records, just be methodical, and take pics so I can put it back together properly.

Here endeth today's progress. I doubt i'll remove the engine til next weekend but we'll see how adventurous i'm feeling tomorrow. Got to find a clean way to drop the PAS fluid.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)