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L Reg Miami Gti Restoration
chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
And finally last few shots from two weeks ago ! Had a bit of a scare as some of the panels that id bought needed a few extra sections, cue some panic buying from a certain spooky supplier. Will be nice to hopefully catch it in primer fully before the colour is added -
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
This now brings us to a few weeks ago, the shell is now at the painters ,,, i keep checking in every few weeks to see how things are going although i have told him that there's no rush to have it back yet as it means throwing one of the garage queens out Initial burst of activity with floors and boot corrected, panels smoothed in etc made for a nice surprise in the first few weeks ! -
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
Very easily tbh ! a large flat headed screwdriver and a decent mash hammer ! .... screwdriver in the key slot .. good whack and the full thing just turned out with no damage to the surrounding cap filler area. Ive already got a New unit and full lock set sourced and were good to go whenits time to put it all in ! -
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
Haha i know i know but literally thats how it came, yes its going to be a bit harder work but ive gathered a fair bit of stuff already ... have the seats & doorcards, dash, loom, carpets & underlay, an engine and box .. bottom arms .. beam, windows ... its slowly piling up ! - Yesterday
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Nice, how did you sort the petrol cap in the end?
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As said it’s about right then. It does take that long tbh. Getting the covers off is a job in itself, and your arms usually bear the brunt of being scraped on various things.
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Leslie green replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
Good story but you are not making it easy for yourself trying to build a car from a bare shell , you probably need another donor to get all the bits off Might need more concrete laid ! -
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
Finally painting day arrived in march .... no trailers to use this time round so a local transport company came and took it to the paint guy ... much easier in hindsight and what ill do from now on. No messing about and having to fight to get things on yourself While she had been sat waiting for pickup the glass , door seals and anything else i could remove ... i took off ... literally down to a bare shell respray should make a much better job though. I didnt want to be doing this again ( even though id said that with the laser ... but here we are haha ) -
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
Spring 2025 arrived and time for some action ! With the new concrete down at the back the shell was fairly easy now to manoeuvre about, pity it was also in now in the wrong place as i needed the TD out first this year ... cue car tetris. Painting and all the welding was finally booked in so a few photos were taken ready for a before & after session later in the year .. -
Thanks Tom, they charged for 4.5 hours so its about right, as I did ask them to check around for any leaks elsewhere that may need attention while it was on the ramps. They are my trusted garage tho, had really bad experiences taking it anywhere else, and they've known the car 20 years They were originally Peugeot/Citroen specialists and while they do all cars now, they still have a large amount of older stuff in the shop vs newer cars, and its still the same chap running it.
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
2024 came ... and lots of time and road trips happened : Front panels came from a forum member here, genuine units as over the years id had trouble with pattern parts and wanted the guy who was painting and welding the bits on to have as easier time as possible Genuine Wings came from different ends of the country ... one from a certain Bush maker on here whilst picking up more parts for the laser gti who let us have a little look at his spare bits he had kicking about The other came from another long known forum member from the Scottish borders ... poor caddy van earnt its keep this year Again with parts now becoming scarce to find the mileage had to be done, although putting faces to forum names was a bonus and all part of the adventure . The last trip of the year also brough back an 2.0 406 turbo engine with GTI 6 gearbox again from scotland, lovely 8 hour round trip ... least the weather was decent ! with plans at the time to make the car bit different and this is an engine id never had before !. -
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
Final one of 2023 ... cover sourced as i had / still have nowhere spare space wise under cover, the laser and the pulsar are the garage queens at the moment. One expensive garden ornament, although next doors cat seemed to be taking a liking to nipping inside over the winter as well which was worrying ! The winter and spring was spent with several road trips sourcing bits here and there ! -
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
Few more of the shell once it was in a stable state ... junior door was pretty much free and the right colour which was a nice find. There were a few issues to sort inside, couple of the seat fixing mounts had no captive bolts left inside but fairly easy to sort, needed a damn good hoover out but pointless yet as it would be outside for a considerable time yet. this was august 2023 still. The petrol cap was a worrying issue at the time as no keys came with the shell and i didn't want to damage anything to get it off ..... but it would need to be removed before painting commenced, also chucked on the spare subframe i had bought for the laser engine bay resto the year before and not used. Noting that there were issues mounting the front part correctly as it seemed to be very slightly out which was worrying, a second was sourced and bolted strait up .... old one in the scrap metal bin at work. At this point all i needed to do was make the shell mobile to be ready for painting when that was possible, everything will be removed again and cleaned painted once the initial shell painting is done. -
Speaker choice / sound is so subjective at the 'lower' end - you can find all manner of group reviews for pro speakers but doubt those guys are intereted in doing the same for the average Joe. Good point on the grilles. Are you using crossovers to split your existing tweeters off, if not you'll need a component set that includes them like the SPGs I linked above. Not sure which of your cars this is going in, but if you like a decent sound then I'd recommend an amp - I've picked up cheap four channel Alpines in the past and the difference is remarkable; effortless, quality power and sound rather then overstretched loudness which just hurts your ears. Slippery slope though!
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chris 417 mi replied to chris 417 mi's topic in Projects & Works Starters
So .... cut forward to a month later after agreeing a time and date for shell collection and some antics with a forklift ... weights and balancing in the back for a bare 205 shell to stop it falling off .. it was all ready loaded and about to begin its long journey back home to be restored. A stressy drive home worrying it was going to move or fall off ... and if so how id put it back on if so followed .... but eventually ... back home and settled ... first task done. Next came the ' how the hell to get it off the trailer as it wasn't mine ... and i don't own a forklift' haha ... a local scrap beam was purchased and a bit of heavy farmers walk lifting got her onto the ground and the trailer back to where it belonged At this point id also sourced a boot and doors to try and make it look a little less like a bare shell. -
Ill begin with a little back story to explain things ... Many years ago on this forum i had an L reg gti, this was bought for me at 19 in 2001 by a family member and as such held great sentimental value. Fast forward a few years funds were needed for housing etc in 2013 in a moment of madness...... i let it go to a friends brother. Years passed and with friends getting back into gti's again i had wanted to buy it back, with funds now easing and purchases becoming more likely and possible ( it was still in the area at the time ). The car had significant attachment due to family member buying me it in 2001 and since passing 2018 this had spurred on the need to find it again. Unfortunately this also began the ' chasing ' of L417RAC' round the internet, as luck would have it , the guy who had it decided to sell it a month before id asked if it was now for sale. Person after person bought it ... advertised it and then sold it on for more and more taking it further out of reach money wise. each time friends would spot it for sale again and tag me which was heartbreaking with the price going up and up each time. I ended up giving up in 2019 and buying the laser in my profile until a chance trip to Pugfest in 2023 ended with: 1) Me agreeing to buy an L reg Miami shell from a well know pug scene members brother ... i hadn't know the reg of the shell until he sent me the photo a few days later after agreeing a price .... L427RAC ... what's the chances ... 1 number out !! 2) And also bumping into my old car itself coming the other way through Gotherington towards Pugfest !! again what's the chances lets say i put the lottery on that day ( didnt win though ) Had a chat with the new owner after waving him down like an idiot shouting ' i used to own that ' .... sorry Dave haha
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Start one, its nice to see a thread with people still doing them on here ! Ill be starting one soon for the miami shell i rescued two years ago
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I’m busy with this at the moment. I should probably write a thread about it, I miss build threads these days. No engine or gearbox in at the moment, but having fitted the tyres to the wheels I wanted to see what they looked like on the car.
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I've done a lot of 205 8v timing belts, assuming nothing goes amiss its 3 to 4 hours work start to finish to do the belt and water pump, bleed the coolant and run up, etc. But, that is to me that is very familiar, to someone who has never done one and is feeling their way through the job, it would easily take them longer, some of the belt cover fixings are difficult to see, you have to feel for them, and the spring loaded tensioner is a simple and clever system once you are familiar with it, but to someone who has never done one before, could understandably take some head scratching to figure out what the hell is going on.
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There is no right or wrong answer, although I'm certain this is more a reflection on me being too tight than anything else! I had seen the Focal stuff and look really good, I was hoping to find some sort of group speaker test/review somewhere to help make the choice, but can't seem to find anything, I'm sure Max Power used to do stuff like this back in the day! Thanks, I like the sound you get from the tweeter mounted higher and more directed at you, that you can achieve with the component speakers, the other consideration is that often the co-ax type place the tweeter further out than the mounting face of the speaker, which then means the standard Peugeot speaker grille either doesn't fit, or fits with a bulge in the middle where it is pressing on the speaker mounted tweeter. Only a Sony head unit which claims 50w output, I don't want to go to the lengths of amps, but I do have a separate underseat sub woofer to fit which do fill the sound out nicely.
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The extra 1.5mm length was zipped off with an angle grinder so no problem, didn't touch the splines Yes your quite right, I used the book setting for standard 18mm bars, which was 347.5mm from one shock absorber bolt centre to the other, hence the ride height was too high using the 22mm bars. I will check what mine are set at now and compare the 300mm and adjust accordingly cheers for that ! A dummy shock would have been easier but I just used the trolley jack to support the trailing arm I removed the bars whilst still on the car. They were seized, so I cut a section out of both bars so I could wiggle them and knock them out. Didn't fancy taking the whole lot out as the trailing arms were good and had been done before
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Just a case of looking around on Facebook and Ebay as far as i am aware, i know of someone selling a brand new set of Lucas headlights but are not cheap, think he wants £300+
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You should be doing this with a dummy shock absorber and no load. I use approx. 290mm centre to centre for 23mm bars, so probably 300mm would be a good starting point.
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Clutch Kits (Specifically Release Bearing Differences)...
bacardincoke replied to bacardincoke's topic in Gearbox & Drivetrain
Cheers... Hoping the input seal is pretty new already, if the seller was to be believed the 'box had received a full refurb. (at a reputable place that's not too far from me), who've since confirmed the work. New cable in yesterday and what a difference! Compared it against the old one (and it was old) but there's no measurable difference in length, so suggests stretch wasn't behind anything... have to put the improvement down to simply the act of taking it all apart, cleaning / replacing and adjusting as necessary. Old gear oil was still amber (presumably having been refreshed post the refurb.) but for all the price of it / ease, mad not to make it routine and that was done today. I've unfortunately lost contact with the previous owner (was 6 years ago nearly), so can't check and there's nothing in the car's paperwork to say one way or the other, but the gear change / pedal action is now perfect and it wouldn't surprise me to find he'd done the clutch as well... so that's going on the back burner for a while, to see if things stay as they are. -
Was the extra 1.5mm in length a problem?
