What Have You Done To Your 205 Today?

[Juttie205 123 2 Cars]

Finally made a start on cleaning all spot welds on strengthing plates on floor and sills ready to be drilled out so I can remove floor.

[mikeyd 13]

took the gearbox to miles to have a plated diff fitted instead of the quaife !!

[Jme 7 1 Cars]

took out stranded engine (1.9 8v) to clean up the engine bay and to make way my for nearly rebuilt mi16 on twin 45's but still waiting for the arp conrod bolts from hi flow heads :'( and also striped the dash out to replace with saxo dash so going to try sell my aircon swtich and 5 hole plastic because they seem rare in uk how come that is didnt you guys there get a/c as a extra???

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

cleared enough space in garage to bring it home rather than its current location in a mates unit

[PAGOS 15 4 Cars]

Replaced door speakers , repaired cracked door pockets , finished making polished aluminium 'door sill' carpet saddles , emptied the ash tray , fitted new alloy pedals and foot-rest .Took it for a blast in the forest.

[Stephen W 12 1 Cars]

Sorted a small patch of surface rust on the lower quarter panel where it meets the sill. It's had the inside sill replaced a few years ago where it meets the tank but I guess waters getting in between. Oh and made a mess in the garage so that's the next job.

[m@ttc 30]

realised how poor a fit the aftermarket headlight panels are and started removing all the spotwelds to make it right.

only having to do this because peugeot are nfp

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

Should of said got access to those.

[m@ttc 30]

really? might be a bit late.

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

Yeah any pattern panels are usually poor.

 

Headlight panels were 160 quid if sold today.

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

Fitted engine steady bracket with new bush, rear fork with new bush, new r/h top mount rubber and bearing, new r/h disk, new pads and new caliper, refitted driveshaft.

[Wes 86 1 Cars]

got mine out of the garage, pumped the tyres up and did a couple laps of the village ready to tax it on the 1st april. can't wait to drive it again

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

Bish

 

Bash

 

Bosh

[Mac Crash 78 1 Cars]

fast road test after having the front wheel alignment adjusted to factory settings (slightly toed in), a few general observations, suspension feels harder/stiffer due to now running Speedline alloys as opposed to French SMR's, the only recent change I have made so together with tyre pressures (A048R-S) (Front 34 , Rear 30) car

feels light footed, yet surely poised..... still has a tendency to steer heavily according to road undulations/dips, yet still manageable, used to mistake this in the past for torque steer, it isn't... it is what it is... the standard 1.9 engine (125,000 mls, over-serviced, TBH) still pulls strong and urgently, every gear shift perfect.... urgency is a thing I remember well from this car from old, today it did not desert me, it's as strong as it was back in the late 80's, pleasure was genuinely all mines today, I've got wishbones in my head... so step by step, next move is to poly-bush the front suspension/bottom arms.

[Mac Crash 78 1 Cars]

Bish

 

Bash

 

Bosh

 

Easy peasy lemon squeezy, rally car sorted!!! easier than beating England at football...eh?

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

What's football??

 

Are your front tyres not a bit overinflated mr crash?

[welshpug 1,666]

34 psi in AO48's?!

 

try 28 psi.

 

Don't bother with poly bushes, o.e.m bush kit ftw.

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

Fitted this little genuine article,(rear tailboard).

 

Far superior than the Imperial boards, in moulding and fitment.

Edited March 30, 2014 by farmer

[Mac Crash 78 1 Cars]

Allen/WP > I guess they are, just experimenting, wheel slip and all that! and just kidding regards England team, hopefully we will both make it through to the next WC tournament now that the wee man Strachan is in charge ..... we used to make it through all the time no matter how hard our group was... I was thinking ploy-bushes to compensate/allow for the LSD, no?

 

Allen> good repair, what else could you do, nice results from pulling, better than you'd hoped for probably...

Edited March 30, 2014 by Mac Crash

[pyrrhic 14 2 Cars]

Took it out for a drive in country roads, pushed the rpm to the upper levels to test sealing of new dipstick. Even reaching up to 6000 rpm the engine is now clean, no oil leaks! I then took it to the Autobahn, pushed it to 175 km/h, little 4 banger screaming, exited at the next exit, checked again and no oil leak. Bravo!

[cybernck 402 1 Cars]

Was that with or without roof on?

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

Allen/WP > I guess they are, just experimenting, wheel slip and all that! and just kidding regards England team, hopefully we will both make it through to the next WC tournament now that the wee man Strachan is in charge ..... we used to make it through all the time no matter how hard our group was... I was thinking ploy-bushes to compensate/allow for the LSD, no?

 

Allen> good repair, what else could you do, nice results from pulling, better than you'd hoped for probably...

Poly bushes can be hit and miss really, most folk tend to use oe bushes. Both my cars with LSDs have oe bushes.

 

Very pleased with the repair, I pulled and bashed it out and my mate filled and sculpted it. Its far from perfect, my mate wanted to skim it again and get it spot on, I stopped him though as the rest of the car is rough as hell!

It's a tool for a job, so it got a fittingly quick repair to make it look respectable at a glance. I'll probably ding it next time out anyway!

[pyrrhic 14 2 Cars]

Was that with or without roof on?

With the roof on. It was 12 degrees last night. I'll do a topless run later when it gets warmer. That speed was measured on the GPS.

Edited March 31, 2014 by pyrrhic

[cybernck 402 1 Cars]

How does the roof cope with high speeds? It is very noisy and windy in the car, with the roof going parachute-shaped?

[pyrrhic 14 2 Cars]

I actually didn't hear anything but the wailing of the Supersprint exhaust, it's pretty loud at wide open throttle.