I've been around on here for years, but I'm probably new to most of you. About 10 years ago I was arsing about at FCS and Pug Runs and the like, then went on the Croft trackday, and caught the bug (Kev kindly letting me past, just slightly before the white 6 got re-christened "Flymo"!)...



I moved through a few track-focussed Vauxhalls, and ended up running a couple of races in a Nova GTE, before it caught turning-brown-vauxhall disease and died.



The car was underdeveloped (poorly tuned carbs, knackered shocks) and I lacked the testicular fortitude to overcome that, or the intelligence to go testing first!

Alongside the track cars I was running my Rallye as a daily driver.



September '12 and it disgraced itself on the way to work, sitting in a puddle of coolant; head gasket didn't survive the shame, and I parked it, leasing a super-dull 1.2TDI econo-wagon. :s



I (eventually) got it repaired and as soon as a space opened up in my garage I brought it home, planning to mothball it until values went up.

That plan lasted all of 3 days! RalyJ was breaking his track Rallye, and the cage and suspension was too tempting to say no to.

Cage being resprayed from red to black



Customised Koni's, converted to coilovers, revalved and with 350lb Eibachs.



My girls loving the Cobra Monacos (from a Nova on migweb, with seat mounts from someone on here)



Set of black Oz Superturismos (Ford offset, but with hubcentric spacers)



And another set in white (ebay bargain, came with Ford-Peugeot spacers already welded inside - chap was selling cos they wouldn't fit on his Escort!)



Stripped back and repainted to anthracite



There's a lot of stuff comes out of a Rallye...



Oops, pretty sure that's not meant to look like that! Replacement rear beam sourced and being fitted...



These pics are all from last summer, the car is away having the cage and a few other bits fitted.

I'll post up a spec list of how it should end up. It's being built to CTCRC pre-2005 race series regs, which means standard engine, 'box and bodywork, but enough other stuff to play with. I've kept my race license, and although there's no guarantee I'll get back into that enough to follow a championship for a year, I do hope to compete regularly in some way, even if it's only an occasional speed event (sprint). I have two young kids and my job is very demanding during term-time, so time can be limited!

I'm keeping a spreadsheet of all the costs incurred in preparation, parts, race kit, so will add that into a later post. I've titled this thread "budget", but really there's no such thing.

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"Talking about badgers is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" Steve McBadger

Transversa aurigatio transcurro arvae.

could not agree more! all the evidence of what i have spent has long been destroyed

good luck with the build mate

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306 2.1 S16 Tarmac Rally Car
Project thread: http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=143956

I didn't give up collecting FIFA stickers.... oops!

I've also picked up a few more shiny bits while the car has been away. Most of it has come from people on here. The exhaust was shot, so that has been replaced with a Mongoose system. I also stumbled on a fancy inlet manifold and throttle body from Denis, and have had the big end bearings and rod bolts uprated.

The rest of the acquisitions I've termed the "handling package":

Baker BM adjustable top mounts:




Baker BM engine mounts, and wishbones with some Rich W bits on:




Solid rear beam mounts:




What is purported to be a Mk1 Xsara VTS steering rack:




I've also picked up some gear rods from Miles, and a Compbrake quickshift.

New race suit:


Shiny helmet: (Bell GT5-Pro, with the visor swapped for a touring peak - this feels so much better than the OMP I had before)

(ironic Flymo in the background, there!)

The spreadsheet is still on-going, although I've now hit the point where I can't really buy much more without going past the pre-2005 spec. Which was exactly the point of building it to those regs! The CTCRC are at Brands in a week and a bit, so I may pop down to have a chat with a few of the guys running 206s. I wish I'd gone to see Dan at the CSCC meet, but didn't realise it was on.

Spend on the car so far is just shy of 4k. Of that, £1700 was what I consider necessities, the rest is on extras like spare wheels, mounts, exhaust, engine work etc. I still have to pay for whatever is done at the garage.
Race kit (helmet, suits, underwear) and transponder is £730 on top of that, though I don't have a lap timer yet (I'm not that fussed, I could never get the one I had before to work).
Luckily I kept my license renewed, so don't have to pay a few hundred quid for a medical and ARDs test.

It sounds steep, but I am getting to keep a car that has a lot of posterity value to me, and it's built exactly to my requirements. I can't wait to get it back now!

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"Talking about badgers is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" Steve McBadger

Transversa aurigatio transcurro arvae.

Yeah, I think so. It usually runs with the pre-93s or the VTEC challenge, from the results I've seen, as there's not enough cars for grids of it's own yet.

I won't have the time to commit to a whole championship, so I've really just used the regs as a limit to what I'll allow myself to have done to the car. Budget-wise I've bought pretty much everything 2nd-hand. I shudder to think what it would have cost new. I've promised myself that I will stick with this car; and if I get the urge not to then there's one thing stopping me selling - it's my Mrs' name on the V5!

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"Talking about badgers is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" Steve McBadger

Transversa aurigatio transcurro arvae.

First post here - http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=146136&page=3

She sets it indirectly, cos I know that moving house and doing stuff with my kids is more important. To be honest, she's a saint. We got together just as I got the 6, and has never said a negative thing about the cars. She even let me convince her to buy a Saxo VTS, then to sell that and buy my Rallye when I wanted the first Astra and needed the money. That's why it's her name on the V5. Before me it only had 2 owners - Chesney on here, and IIRC a car spares company who used it as a run-around (for 90k miles in 3 years!).

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"Talking about badgers is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" Steve McBadger

Transversa aurigatio transcurro arvae.