[Trackday_Prep] My Track Toy

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Always wanted a 205 some cough 21years ago but at that time they were so expensive to insure due to joy riding I ended up with a 309gri

 

So when looking for a cheap car to do a few trackday in earlier this year is made perfect sense to get a 205.

 

Gearknob and steering wheel replaced

 

Next job is going to be an oil change and a fuel pump to fit and check over before its first trackday in two weeks time.

 

Plan to fit bucket seats but not sure I will get time before first trackday, which brings me to a question, do the seat rails unbolt from the standard seats so I can fit them to a bucket or does anyone make rails specifically for the pug?

 

If all well on first track day then I will look into a cage, was going to fit one beforehand but decide if the engine lets go on first outting or I might not like it (doubt that)

 

Simon

[Batfink 201]

Keep the gear knob. Worth lots on eBay lol

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

It broken unfortunately. Cars currently at a mates unit and we have been using the car for food runs around the ind estate as its private and mate was too keen with the knob and broke it into several pieces Steering wheel is spotless and will go on ebay

[mowflow 67]

Sadly the steering wheels aren't worth as much.

 

Car looks pretty clean from the pics. Almost too clean and original for track slagging but I can imagine the pics may be deceiving.

 

Have fun on track.

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Its a cat c and has various dents but it pretty solid. I think last owner stole the lowish mileage engine for his track car.

Was cheap so no bother

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Good day on the car today

 

No major rust underneath

 

Suspension looks good. Needs front pads but no drama.

 

Oil change done

Cambelt looks new - bonus

Pulled throttle body off and cleaned and and found pipes were on wrong

Compression checked it and down on one cylinder but guessing valve as no oil smoke etc.

exhaust has a funny dented section in it

 

Removed interior but decided to refit front seats and run with those for first trackday and seatbelts then cage and buckets and harnesses later.

 

Adjusted dizzie with detcans

Having corrected the pipe on throttle body I decided to do a power run to check fuelling before changing the pump and no need to change pump

Fuelling solved and 5more horses.

 

Compression and exhaust dent not helping I guess.

[welshpug 1,661]

its either not bad for a 1.6, or 1.9 with something a bit wrong

 

where's the torque?

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Out the valve or the exhaust restriction lol

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Engine number appears 1.9 and it has the spacer on the sump.

 

Trying to find graph from another 1.9 on the same dyno to compare lol

[welshpug 1,661]

have a graph of a very healthy standard 1.9.

 

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Powerstation tends to read a little higher than surrey rr.

 

Just stuck it back on and played with dizzie and now 112 and 98lb so still low but similar shape graph to above.

 

Main thing is fuelling safe

[grandos 16]

I had mine done at Surrey RR and it made 125bhp with 121lb ft.

Running fairly healthy with very slight leaning off at very high rpm.

So something is slightly restricting yours, but not much.

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Yep. See if I can blow it up on track next week

[MiniGibbo 142]

Coll project, everyone on here seems to be braking track cars not making them..!

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

If I like it on track then it will get a cage fitted and bucket seats.

 

What do people consider the best weld in cage?

[welshpug 1,661]

probably something like this:

 

http://www.customcages.co.uk/Rollcage/LoadRollCage.castle?manufacturer=Peugeot&model=205%20and%20309&type=Multipoint

 

though their tube shapes have been a bit hit an miss on quite a few of the 306 cages I have seen, so much so that when Phill (Rippthrough) has fitted a couple he's bent up new front leg sections!

 

I really like the cage that Colin Satchell has in his 205, which I believe they sorted all themselves.

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

I just google image searched and choose the best I could see. Same cage.

 

I had robinsons race cars do me a car in my other car. Will ring them to compare.

[Davy 18 1 Cars]

nice little track fun project!

 

Just out of curiosity, what compression readings did you get on each cylinder?

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

7, 10, 10, 9.5bar

[Davy 18 1 Cars]

Cheers Simon,

 

I dont have much of a 'feel' for whats healthy / normal with these little engines yet, so good for reference.

 

Have fun on your first outing!

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Me neither but all four the same or similar would be a start lol

[Anthony 1,003]

I'd be wary of comparing absolute figures from other people, as in my experience different compression testers can read quite differently, particularly old/cheap ones.

 

Far more important is the difference between cylinders which in your case clearly highlights a problem on the 1st tested cylinder.

 

Going by my tester, all your results would be distinctly on the low side and the suspect cylinder pretty horrendous.

 

For what it's worth, on my tester I expect to see around 180-190psi (12-12.5bar) for a healthy 8v engine with no more than around 10psi difference between cylinders. It seems to correspond pretty well to what an expensive Snap On tester reads, so I figure it's in the rough ballpark accuracy wise.

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Totally agree Anthony

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Oops track day friday and just booked a sprint the week after

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

New seats for when cage and harnesses are in

 

Bought a second set of wheels too