I've not heard good things about Drenth boxes, Julian Long had one in his and i believe he had a few issues with it, not sure what they were though, you can bet its not going to be cheap to fix though! Have you any pictures of the box internals?

I'd be surprised if he replaced an entire bottom end, although I guess it depends on what he means by 'blown'... usually new pistons and block are required as my crank and rods have survived each of my engine failures...

I'm not sure what the differences would be between the 406 and 306 bottom ends, I've heard rumours of 40mm big ends, as opposed to 45mm big ends that I have, and I would guess at lighter piston designs as the ones in mine are fairly standard looking Omega ones, certainly not out and out race pistons!

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Oulton Park in a BTCC 306 vid 1
Oulton Park in a BTCC 306 vid 2
Lap of the 'ring

Just as I thought for the bottom ends then!

I'm not sure Richard is still trading, but Brett Simms is an ex Longmans employee who now has gone on his own... http://www.brettsimsmotorsport.co.uk/

I guess it depends how confident you are at doing the job yourself. Personally I'd get stuck in and if you get really stuck then consult someone, but my guess is, as long as the engine is in reasonable condition, new rings, bearings, valve stem oil seals etc, and then just check everything else thoroughly. Would be good to get the timing figures for the cams also before you dismantle it!

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Oulton Park in a BTCC 306 vid 1
Oulton Park in a BTCC 306 vid 2
Lap of the 'ring

Had my best result of the year so far at Mallory and finished 7th overall! Remember that this is still using a almost standard 306 Rallye with 178bhp and all the cars in front had 200+bhp (2 ex btcc 306 amongst them!) as do many of the cars behind!

Had a race long battle with a 210bhp throttle bodied 206 RC (GTi-180) and had a minor coming together at the hairpin giving me another dented wing! I was then just in front of the 206 with him having the legs on me down the straights but I was hugging the inside line and was faster in the corners (with standard 306 rear shocks still!). Sadly our battle was ended after a back maker Fiesta failed to see the 206 after we past him, taking the 206 out big time. this gave me a breather to stroll home in 7th!

all the results are here

http://www.pugsport-racing.co.uk/mallorypark12.html

and pictures here,

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.410204225707035.93507.240432402684219&type=1

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.346015402147216.79028.100002162783136&type=1

best of all is that now I have completed 6 races this year I can now remove my racing "L" plate and take off my novice cross from the rear of the car!

next round is 15th September at Donnington

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Peugeot Specialist
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Yeah thanks for pointing that out, 3.5 secs over a 1.3mile track is alot so shows how much better the btcc one is!

The Hampshire 306 broke the gear lever pivot on the subframe!

The Tongue 306 got a minute penalty for overtaking under a yellow flag!

Will be taking my 306 btcc engine out this week and getting it done asap as now really want to see how far I can get!

do you think you will be out this year or next? only 2 rounds left?!

so your just going to fit a standard engine?

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Yeah that seems to be the worrying thing! they seem to win or break!

Do you know a guy called Phil Davidson? hes suppose to be good with Peugeot engines and longmans ones?

He does the engine in the cox/hampshire car?

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Nothing special, as said the rera is totally standard with standard shocks and mounts etc, just lowered, front is a set of Gaz coilover from a 205 GTi, with rose jointed ball joint to get neg camber and compbrake strut tops to do the same.

havent spend much on the Rallye as just wanted to go racing in something simple and basic at first and want to save enough money to be able to go out in the btcc one!

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nothing really, pretty much anything goes engine wise, just no turbos or superchargers allowed.

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Has to stick within the class engine capacities though, 1600-2000cc etc. so no 2.2 strokers etc.

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Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
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I think so, but you'd be in the 2000-3000cc category then, where a 2.2 would be hopelessly outgunned by a 3.0 in say a BMW.

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Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
Solid Beam Mounts BACK IN PRODUCTION
Harness bars

How would they actually know if it's a 2000cc or a 2098cc with bigger pistons?

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The only way they will know is if you are obviously out dragging them on the straights. Or if you're competitors are complete arses who decide they want your engine checking if the championship goes down to the wire. Even then though, I'd be asking for a rolling road 'shootout' to see how much more power you're 25cc has given you! In all honesty there are probably lots of people running slightly overbored engines to accomodate rebuilds (as opposed to stroker engines) and as long as you're not taking the p**s I wouldn't mind racing against soemone with 50cc more capacity than I had.

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Oulton Park in a BTCC 306 vid 1
Oulton Park in a BTCC 306 vid 2
Lap of the 'ring

Tin tops regs are here;

CSCC tin tops

nothing above 2000cc is allowed, nothing is said at all about slight overbores but to be honest dont think anyone would know or check unless you won all the time!

GRP panels are fine as many cars are running them.

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Carl Chambers
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C.M.CHAMBERS CARS
Peugeot Specialist
Tel; 01379 586101 after 6.30 or 07889 082466 anytime.

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What are you going to have done?

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R H Davey Welding Supplies. I sell new and used welding equipment in the Hampshire area. I take on welding jobs in the evenings, ally casting repairs are one of my specialities but I can weld pretty much anything. PM me with your requirements.

Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
Solid Beam Mounts BACK IN PRODUCTION
Harness bars