X-mo goes 1.9 GTI | goes MI16 | goes 2.0 T.C.T

[X-mo 20 2 Cars]

Hi guys,

after beeing a lurker for more than 8 years, I decided to finally make a contribution to this forum and open a project thread for my first ever 1.9l GTI i bought in 2010 as my second ever car.

 

First of all a little introduction:

My name is Axel , 31 years old/young. I'm from a little village near Nuremberg, Germany.

 

First got in touch with the iconic Peugeot 205 about 12 years ago as I bought a low milage 1.4l Forever as my first ever car. Never really was into cars but that changed with owning one by myself...did a few smaller jobs like lowering and putting on some new rims...but nothing major.

After some while I discovered that there was a GTI version of my loved Peugeot 205. So double the power from what I was used...that was my way to go.

 

So searched for a reasonable advert and made my find. The car has gone through a constantly evolving process since I owned it. I will try to take you through all the steps it made and then add up to the current conversion from N/A to some more powerful F/I 

 

This is the car back in 2010 right after I bought it. The previous owner used it as a daily driver before I got it and therefore the body needed some love.

Despite the 217.000 km the car was mechanically in a good condition....considering it only costs 1550€  back then :D

 

 

 

 

 

The usual rust spots were included in the price.

 

 

 

 

Without any big experience I started stripping down the car in order to get rid of all the rust and dirty that settled for the last 20 years of daily abuse. At that time I had to borrow nearly every tool to work on the car and a friend of mine had to help me weld in the needed sheet metal....oh how the time has changed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All sealed up again and ready for some stone chip protection / paint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real wheel arch got some protection too

 

 

Fixed some dents and closed the aerial port as I never intented to use it.

 

 

 

 

Next I had to gather a few rust-free attachment parts as the old ones were beyond my repair skills...even it was a costy affair for me as a student.

 

 

 

 

 

Luckily my uncle owns a paint shop and he was willing to paint the car for nothing than the material costs BUT only on the outside and I had to do the whole prep work beforehand . That meant I had to sand the whole car off, paint the whole inside by myself and wanted to get it running in order to drive it onto his trailer.

 

Priming, sanding, priming, sanding

 

 

 

 

And now I'll have to admit my youthful sin...I painted my Peugeot 205 GTI with a mat RAL 7016 lacquer....played a lot NFS Underground at that time if that's an excuse. Don't worry....the paintwork isn't the same anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

After preparing the engine bay I only needed a engine to throw at it. Never had my hands on a proper engine before....so this was a exciting stage of the rebuild for me.

 

 

Aha...this is what an engine looks like cracked open

 

 

 

 

The head got a surface grind and went back together with "smoothed" valves.

 

 

 

 

 

The bottom end got treated with some new conrod bearings and new liner seals.

 

 

 

 

And everything falls back in place

 

 

 

 

Off goes the Harlekin 205 to get the paintjob done

 

 

 

 

Back again with a dark-grey-tuning-205-thing ready to assemble

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally starts to look like an Pug205 again

 

 

 

Professional rear screen assembling here

 

 

The driver seat needed some love on the outer seat cushions before fitting. Got me some hard foam and tried to recreate the form. Cheap fix and it did it's job.

 

 

 

Only some BMW M3 side mirrors left and I finally got to drive around my rebuild 205 in 2011

 

 

Hope this wasn't to much at once but there is a lot more to come...so prepare your scrolling finger for more mat-grey-205-action.

 

Cheers

 

Axel

 

 

[X-mo 20 2 Cars]

Hello again,

got another load of pictures for you guys.

 

Starting with a nice auto bonnet I could source back then from a nearby scrapyard. My uncle was very pleased to paint another carpart in mat gre.

 

 

 

 

 

Drove the car like this in 2011 and 2012 until I decided it was time to go a bit further down the 205 rabbit hole.

 

I treated the obviously rotten parts as I got the car home, but as you all most likely know there can be quite a lot of rust hidden under the factory coating without even knowing. So I decided to crawl under the car, get the grinder out and scrub down the whole underbody....what a lovely job

 

 

The final outcome wasn't by far not as bad as it could have been.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The worst part were the joints between the boot floor and it's struts. Had to remove most of the stock welding spots and add new sheet metal. Some went for the lower boot strut itself and the backing plate of the boot (hope you know what I try to explane )

 

 

 

 

 

 

At that time I already sourced myself an old MIG welder to be able to get rid of stuff like this on my own. After some practice I gave it a try...all holes closed and everything was flushed with Owatrol oil to prevent it from rusting again.

 

 

 

 

 

The welded spots got two layers of a primer called Brantho 3in1. After that the whole floor was painted with Ovagrundol Primer followed by Brantho 3in1 and a top-coat of Chassislack OH in the same RAL 7016 the upper body was painted with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately both ends of the side rockers (is this the ride word ) and the mandatory rear bumper fixing points were pretty rotten too. As I was just about able to weld in some flate sheet metal, I left this work to a professional and "only" had to repaint everything after.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The boot got a new layer of paint to

 

 

Before getting everything back onto the car all parts were derusted and painted and new brake / fuel-lines were fitted too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was my winter 2012 underneath the car...seems like I had a lot of time as a student back then as there had happened a few more changes simultaneously

More to come next time. Please let me know if this is a bit overkill with all the pictures

 

Cheers

 

Axel

 

 

 

[yeti-dj 7]

Hey, good work!

 

everyone loves picture, keep them coming. 
 

Rus.....