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I know its not a 205 but as the engine I have just bought used to live in one, I thought I had better start a project thread. After a long four year battle trying to build my own 205 rally car (I should of got one ready built ) I decided to strip the 205, sell bits no longer needed and buy this. It was originally built to be a track car and no expense had been spared by the previous owner. The cage had been fitted by Phillip (Rippthrough) and had Colin Satchell solid engine mounts fitted. The plan was simple, replace and fit the bits required to get it through log-booking and get out on the stages. Unfortunately that did not happen and 14 months later it is still sat in the garage on axle stands. a few pictures before work began: The bucket seats and harnesses were out of date so they were sold. I already had a brand new pair of Ricco Racing harnesses from the 205 so after a quick phone call to Motordrive a pair of bucket seats arrived: and drivers side was fitted after having to buy a new pair of side mounts: Next I moved onto sorting out my suspension. I decided started with the rear beam and as Andy (jord294) is local, I ask him to build it for me. Some negative camber on the back was in order so I sent a pair of trailing arms off to Martin (CRF450) at Bridgecraft Engineering to work his magic. A cheap 30mm arb was up for grabs on the GTi6 forum so I snapped that up and placed an order with Anthony for some 23.5mm torsion bars. A few weeks later everything had arrived and as I already had a set of solid rear mounts I took a trip up to Andy's to drop everything off. Once the parts had arrived back from powdercoating it only took Andy a few hours to put it all together. The following weekend I took the car up there to get it fitted. I ended up with AVO mono-tube fronts and two-ways on the back as I was trying to stick to a budget, looking back now I could have spent a bit more but was happy with what I had. The after-sale service from AVO seems highly rated so if I do have any problems I should be able to get them sorted pretty quickly. well I was happy with the rears until something else popped up for sale the AVO two-way rears were sold on to buy these: After waiting ages for a decent set of 4 pots to come up for sale I bit the bullet and got a pair of AP Racing CP6562 6 pot calipers they are of a solid one piece alloy construction, fitted with titanium pistons with ceramic caps to stop heat transfer into the fluid. Next up to buy was a pair of Carbone Lorraine RC6 pads, as these calipers run a smaller size pad they had to be ordered in. Here is a picture of the caliper and pads on the kitchen scales: Choosing what size rotor I was going to use would be a difficult decision. As I have 2 sets of Pro Race 2's, 1 set of Pro Race 1.2's and 3 Pro Race 1's all in 15" size and direct fit (ET15) I wanted to make sure all the alloys fitted over with no problems. I was very tempted to go with 310mm but the TD 1.2's really are p**s poor for clearance compared to the TD 1's and 2's. After much thought I went with a pair of 300x28mm rotors from Hi-Spec. I just need to get some bells and brackets made for them now. more to follow.....