miamibungers 8 1 Cars Posted October 4, 2016 Thought I'd start a thread to keep progress of the old shed! The GTI has been semi retired to the occasional sunny day jaunt but hasn't really been used for circa 2 years and as I'd liked the idea of having a 205 I can use as an occasional daily (do ~450 miles a week hence the occasional!) I thought this would be perfect. I picked it up off the bay in this state - a 2 owner steel grey example with 126,000 on the clock. It hasn't been used for 2 years and only done 30 miles since its last MOT - pics from the ad: She arrived at mine in slightly worse state though, with the front tow eye pulled off the mount damaging the front valance, the rear tow eye bent bending the rear valance and a large dent on the NS of the tailgate :-( First things I did were to jack it up to inspect the body, which I can report is all good bar some light rust in the inner wings. Removed the chrome trim strips in preparation for painting red: Gave it a wash and quick going over with a mop, debadged it and stuck a spare set of 1.9 alloys on: Sanded, etch primered and painted (in Cherry Red (92)) the trims. Are they the highest suspensioned 205? :lol: : ​ I then set about getting it running, trying to sort all the niggles and after much research start the plan of upgrading the power. I eventually got it running after replacing the battery, fuel filter/primer and injector return pipes. Have also replaced the remote fob batteries, boot lock solenoid & OS indicator. Since then I have been looking into intercooling so I can up the fuelling & boost. I could go down the 1.9 xud route but I'm not skilled enough to do engine swaps so looked at alternatives. I found that the Rover 218 & 418 td used the same engine but came out of the factory with an intercooler setup and luckily manged to find a chap selling the inlet manifold and manifold cover which will allow me to add an intercooler. This is the standard Rover setup: The parts arrived and I set about cleaning them up: The Rover inlet manifold doesn't have the bracket to attach the vac pump to so that's currently with a welding company having the bracket removed from the STDT manifold and welded on to the Rover manifold. Rover: Peugeot: ​ The radiator was shot, so I managed to track down a brand new Ordonez TD rad and used some strips of stainless to drop the radiator ready for wedging in an intercooler. The plan is to have a top feed bar and plate intercooler and this and a fitting kit is being delivered this week along with some radiator hose to extend the top and bottom rad hoses: ​ Once this is all in I plan on getting it fully serviced and all the belts replaced as they are looking very tired! Hopefully wont need much for the MOT but expect a couple of issues on such an old thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
j_turnell 137 3 Cars Posted October 4, 2016 Nice project, reminds me very much of my stdt although I went down the gti-6 route. Any plans to ditch the beige? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miamibungers 8 1 Cars Posted October 4, 2016 Cheers, I would ditch the beige as it's not exactly 'nice' but long gone are the days of being able to pick up a full gti interior for peanuts so I'll probably just learn to live with it unless I stumble across a suitable donor car. It's all the bits other than the seats that'll be difficult to find I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JamPug 22 Posted October 5, 2016 The paintwork looks really nice with all the grime removed ! Nice one Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miamibungers 8 1 Cars Posted October 5, 2016 Cheers, I'm no good at polishing so in real life it doesn't look as nice but certainly better than it was. The bonnet and roof were really bad and the lacquer is still quite bad on the roof as all the late ones are but after a few coats of the old shoe polish on the trims and the red strips fitted I think it looks a lot better. ​ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Weser 30 Posted October 5, 2016 I think I have all those rover bits in my shed somewhere as I planned to go down that route with my td - but sold it before I started. Looking forward to seeing this progress! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robbiedundy 58 4 Cars Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) Also looking forward to progress on this, I'd like more power out of my stdt too. Your pics aren't working anymore btw, did you move them in photo bucket or something? Edited October 28, 2016 by Dundy53 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
