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Well i have just written up a whole 5 year overview of my progress and pressed back space which has lost my passed hour of typing!!! So here it goes again. So I bought a Red non sunroof 205 out of a scrap yard about 5 years again and took 18 months rebuilding it. Spec GTI-6 converison with gearbox 309 wishbones and D/S 309 Rear beam GTI-6 Brakes Stainless exhaust It only took 4 months for some dimwit to write it off for me at some traffic lights because he though I was going to jump the red light?? So that car got stripped and I bought a Lazer of my mate. All my parts went onto this one. My bad luck got even better when someone drove into the rear quarter when it was parked. Topped off with my parents dropping a big branch on it to dent the roof. So I was mega happy. So next I moved on to another hunt for a shell. This time I struck gold with a barn find. £250, 40 miles away. Here it is. So I set straight away to stripping it and cleaning it thoroughly. Then just built it with all my parts from my last one and enjoyed it. I then got some GAZ GHA coilies and fitted them I aslo killed a head gasket after a couple of trackdays so the engine was swapped. Next I bought some Jenvey 48’s and omex 600 which I loved the sound off, way to additive. My mate was then selling some 45’s cheap so I had them and moved on my 48’s. I was a GTI-6 head for sale on the forum which took my fancy to I bought that. Spec: Longman head Piper 285 solids Solid lifters Double Valve springs Vernier pulleys So then I had to get a bottom end built. After some thinking I decided to build a beefier bottom end. Not just a fresh built standard bottom end. Spec: Re-linered block (86mm) Lightened and balanced Crank ACL race bearings Omega pistons Saenz rods ARP bolts Lightened flywheel and bottom pulley. I nice delivery this was.... So this all got sent to the engine shop and was machined, inspected and rebuilt. So I got to go collect this I then built all the various parts up on this engine and got it fitted. As well as a new set of coolant hoses, breather catch tank and a few other bits and bobs like a 309 front Anti roll bar and fitted a roll cage. Then off to the dyno were it didn’t make great power 198bhp. I put it down to cam timing and the exhaust as it is only 1-7/8” to 2” I then took I to my mate where we done some cam adjustments and trumpet length adjustments. And smoothed of the power band and got a few more bhp out of it (207Bhp) So I have been enjoying it now and done a trackday which indicated I need a diff. So a 3J driveline will be added soon. Also a full 4-2-1 exhaust manifold and with 2.5” full system will be added soon. So that should finish it off for now until I crave wild cam’s and more power. The bottom end should be fairly strong to see through a fair amount of power increase so aslong as I have enough room with the valves and pistons new cams and a map and that will be about it for this build.