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The topic of rally cars was bounced around at work today, and a name was thrown out of a chap who has a reputation for putting unusual engines in his rally prepared 205, Vincent Foucart. Did a little googling and it turns out he's built an utterly nutty Group B 205 with a triple rotor Wankel engine in it! Couldn't find any reference to it on here, so I thought I'd post it up! There's a couple of good youtube videos here and here. The thing sounds fantastic! Cheers, Mike

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 a few pictures before work began: The bucket seats and harnesses were out of date so they were sold.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.....

Hi all, Thought I'd share my car with you guys. Just started rallying so there's always work being done to the car. Below the car after a day testing at Sweet Lamb, Very pleased and excited for my first event. Fortunately it was a Tarmac car so there's a heap load of gaps to Seal. You would think it's just done a Dakar #dust!! My first event didn't go as planned.. Had to retire with fuel problems. As it's running on carbs it was setup with an Inline fuel pump. This was removed and I'm now running a standard Fuel pump with a pressure turbo pressure regulator. Added with a full setup of the carbs and a rolling road day. Money well spent as it's now running like a watch, All washed after the first event! Some stripping out !! Shocked to find house cable running through the car!! Rele?! Thought I'd make a new switch panel. Bit of work but very pleased. Carbs back on and rolling road day!! All ready for the next rally!!

Hi, i am looking to put a 1600 16v into my 205 gti rally car due to class reasons, this has probably been mentioned before but i couldn't see anything, as the topic says, is it possible to use my be3 gearbox on a 1600 16v out of the Peugeot 106 gti ?

Hi all, Only just joined - eager to learn more about my new project and share my progress along the way. Seems a very active forum, which is good as i've never messed with a pug before! I commute a long way each day for work, so have a Skoda Fabia TDI for a daily. I did have a 197 Clio Cup as a weekend toy. Unfortunately i never had a great opportunity to use the car - it just sat in the garage. It was irritating having such a new car sat at idle, especially if the market dropped on them overnight. Decided to move it on. The Clio. Decided to look for something slightly older - something i could have sat doing no work and wouldn't lose money. Fell upon this gem which has had tonnes of love in the past but sat in storage for around 10 years before i bought it. An enthusiast had it before me but then unfortunately fell ill. It was about 10mm deep with dust when i bought it - got it home, gave it a wash, clay and wax and this was the result. Certainly in a tidy state! The engine sounds sweet as a nut and everything is in a decent state. I thought i would make this thread to show my project. I wish to keep it original and get it to A1 condition and hopefully show it. Things to do - Replace/rebuild seized rear beam Paint, protect and underseal floor Freshen up the interior Rebuild engine, seam weld subframes, tidy things up in engine bay, cure some rust. Basically want to get everything in 'near new' condition, so may take a while. I also have another project though so this is a hobby project in effect, will keep you all updated. Everything seems factory on it bar an open cone filter and a receipt for fitting and mapping (not investigated yet) of a megasquirt ECU... :-/ Thanks, John P.S. i see this forum is quite active with track day go'ers, motorsport followers etc, so here is my main project. A 1600cc Honda Powered MG ZR stage rally car.