Top Gear Style Challenge Will It Make It Home

[custard-rallye 25]

Went and bought a 205 turbo yesterday that spun a shell was going to pick up with a landy and trailor but rear bearing was buggered and the race welded itself onto stub pin so had to order new one

 

So decided to get a mate to drive down and would see how far we could make it top gear syle car was bought in falkirk and made it to stiring services about 10 mile ha ha so rac were called and car recovered

 

So plans for today are to fit new engine running tomorrow for the other half to run for work

[custard-rallye 25]

[custard-rallye 25]

Needs raised at the back and rear arch is hanging off but will get that sorted and all should be good

[vtifan 26]

this has been advertised for a while,saw it on the crx forum a while back looked quite decent,did the same challenge about 12 years back with a 205 my mate bought in crail,had been run with no oil and had the worst bottom end knock i have ever heard,i nursed it all the 20 miles back to his house at below 2000rpm all the way,got about 150 yards from his house and gave it an almighty rev,it put a rod right through the block which i thought was quite funny but my mate didnt see funny side as it left a rather big trail of oil up his street and driveway

[MiniGibbo 142]

Yeah I saw this on civiclife, didn't realise it spun a shell.

[Cameron 16]

Mmm Laser Green.

[welshpug 1,657]

Nothing like a TG challenge, just classic 205drivers event that happens all the time

[vtifan 26]

Nothing like a TG challenge, just classic 205drivers event that happens all the time

aye like everytime you leave the house,waiting for the next call to the aa if you have a 205 you should have them on speed dial

[Mad Scientist 106]

Good work!

 

I had a Subaru WRX company car once. Bottom end started knocking in Nottingham on my last day in the job! Not wanting to ruin my evening, I drove it 60 miles home. Made it to 55 miles before it chucked a rod out! Rang recovery, left it at the petrol station I'd coasted into and got a taxi home. Never saw it again!

 

 

[custard-rallye 25]

Did everything just need to do wiring few things I'm not happy with though

[Anthony 1,003]

A mere 10 miles? Poor show frankly.

 

Me and James_R once drove back all the way from the Nurburgring to Hertfordshire with a spun big-end shell knocking away, a feat that neither we nor the other forum members that we were over there with ever thought we'd actually manage, We just drove with an aim of minimising the time that we'd spend on the back of a flatbed, not really expecting to make it past the German border, let alone all the way back to Blighty

 

Mind you, the constant BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG from the bottom end for hour after hour in a stripped out track 205 with no stereo did start to wear a little thin, the noise not so much etched but branded into my subconscious and thus I can remember it crystal-clear even today.

[Cameron 16]

At least you'll be able to tell big end damage a mile off now.

 

I remember driving back from the 'ring with a driveshaft that had s*it itself and lost 2 of the tripod bearings.. that was a loooooooooong and tense drive!

[custard-rallye 25]

Ha ha that's good going I didn't help it my mate spied the service sign and said do I want to stop there where food/toilet ect or on the hard shoulder but it died at roundabout and wouldnt start again so good thing I stopped atleast the flatbed found us easy

[custard-rallye 25]

 

This was unplugged doing nothing

 

 

 

 

And every bleed valve I have seen has been different to this both the pipes usually go to the side not one ?

Edited August 27, 2012 by custard-rallye

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

I made it from hemel hempstead to luton once in a GT i won on ebay for £89

 

the seller had misdiagnosed there to be an issue with the carb causing it to run rough.

 

turned out the cambelt had slipped 2teeth!

 

after a very expensive trip home to leicester on a recovery truck, I rather stupidly left it park outside my house whilst I went on holiday, the tax subsequently expired and the council took it away and eventually crushed it

 

most expensive £89 ive ever spent!

[custard-rallye 25]

I'm sorry but that made me laugh you must of been gutted

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

not one of my finest moments I must say!

[dcc 855]

Goliath and my self had some fun in a 205 with a v6... it decided to chew a driveshaft, in croatia... Luckily we had a keyring we cut up and repaired the bastard!

 

more to the point, every time we went full lock it would pop out! many many repairs later, and a full tub of butter (used as cv grease) we got to austria where somebody in a 205 took us to a scrap dealer where we got a new shaft end, and the owner of Peugeot Wilfring (Richard) gave us 2 brand new 205 gti wishbones! (rather than the 309 ones we had the issues with!)

 

4000 miles in a car we finished building on the way to the ferry! (we had a water leaker for 3999 miles )

 

best holiday ever.

[custard-rallye 25]

Going by all this driveshaft trouble I think 2 in the boot wouldn't go a miss

[Alastairh 47]

Last year i picked up a cheap phase 2 Citroen Xsara VTS. It has a light knock from the bottom end and a cracked cylinder head. I risked the 40 miles drive home, only made it 32 miles before i had to call the AA and cooked it (the previous owner had already made it very warm anyway) but i avoided letting the rods make a bid for freedom due to the mess that would be involved.

 

Anyway, heres the dash board for you...

 

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

Some years ago as a impressionable 17 year old I over revved my then pride and joy Mini Clubman estate 1100cc. I managed to make it approx the 12 miles home, the knocking noise by the time I was approaching home was like nothing you have ever heard, max speed was about 25mph, with pedestrians turning to see what on earth was making the horrendous noise.

It turned out that it had hammered out one of the big end bearings so badly that the piston on that rod was hitting the cylinder head on every stroke.

As it happened I already knew the engine wasn't going to last forever so I was about 90% of the way through building a sooped up replacement complete with better cylinder head and Piper 270 camshaft in it.