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Jolly Green Monster

[Trackday_Prep] My Track Toy

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Jolly Green Monster

Always wanted a 205 some cough 21years ago but at that time they were so expensive to insure due to joy riding I ended up with a 309gri

 

So when looking for a cheap car to do a few trackday in earlier this year is made perfect sense to get a 205.

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Gearknob and steering wheel replaced

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Next job is going to be an oil change and a fuel pump to fit and check over before its first trackday in two weeks time.

 

Plan to fit bucket seats but not sure I will get time before first trackday, which brings me to a question, do the seat rails unbolt from the standard seats so I can fit them to a bucket or does anyone make rails specifically for the pug?

 

If all well on first track day then I will look into a cage, was going to fit one beforehand but decide if the engine lets go on first outting or I might not like it (doubt that)

 

Simon

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Batfink

Keep the gear knob. Worth lots on eBay lol

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Jolly Green Monster

It broken unfortunately. Cars currently at a mates unit and we have been using the car for food runs around the ind estate as its private and mate was too keen with the knob and broke it into several pieces :rolleyes: Steering wheel is spotless and will go on ebay

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mowflow

Sadly the steering wheels aren't worth as much.

 

Car looks pretty clean from the pics. Almost too clean and original for track slagging but I can imagine the pics may be deceiving.

 

Have fun on track.

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Jolly Green Monster

Its a cat c and has various dents but it pretty solid. I think last owner stole the lowish mileage engine for his track car.

Was cheap so no bother

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Jolly Green Monster

Good day on the car today

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No major rust underneath

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Suspension looks good. Needs front pads but no drama.

 

Oil change done

Cambelt looks new - bonus

Pulled throttle body off and cleaned and and found pipes were on wrong

Compression checked it and down on one cylinder but guessing valve as no oil smoke etc.

exhaust has a funny dented section in it

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Removed interior but decided to refit front seats and run with those for first trackday and seatbelts then cage and buckets and harnesses later.

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Adjusted dizzie with detcans :)

Having corrected the pipe on throttle body I decided to do a power run to check fuelling before changing the pump and no need to change pump

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Fuelling solved and 5more horses.

 

Compression and exhaust dent not helping I guess.

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welshpug

its either not bad for a 1.6, or 1.9 with something a bit wrong :lol:

 

where's the torque?

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Jolly Green Monster

Out the valve or the exhaust restriction lol

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Jolly Green Monster

Engine number appears 1.9 and it has the spacer on the sump.

 

Trying to find graph from another 1.9 on the same dyno to compare lol

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welshpug

have a graph of a very healthy standard 1.9.

 

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Jolly Green Monster

Powerstation tends to read a little higher than surrey rr.

 

Just stuck it back on and played with dizzie and now 112 and 98lb so still low but similar shape graph to above.

 

Main thing is fuelling safe

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grandos

I had mine done at Surrey RR and it made 125bhp with 121lb ft.

Running fairly healthy with very slight leaning off at very high rpm.

So something is slightly restricting yours, but not much.

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Jolly Green Monster

Yep. See if I can blow it up on track next week :)

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MiniGibbo

Coll project, everyone on here seems to be braking track cars not making them..!

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Jolly Green Monster

If I like it on track then it will get a cage fitted and bucket seats.

 

What do people consider the best weld in cage?

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welshpug

probably something like this:

 

http://www.customcages.co.uk/Rollcage/LoadRollCage.castle?manufacturer=Peugeot&model=205%20and%20309&type=Multipoint

 

though their tube shapes have been a bit hit an miss on quite a few of the 306 cages I have seen, so much so that when Phill (Rippthrough) has fitted a couple he's bent up new front leg sections!

 

I really like the cage that Colin Satchell has in his 205, which I believe they sorted all themselves.

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Jolly Green Monster

I just google image searched and choose the best I could see. Same cage.

 

I had robinsons race cars do me a car in my other car. Will ring them to compare.

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Davy

nice little track fun project!

 

Just out of curiosity, what compression readings did you get on each cylinder?

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Davy

Cheers Simon,

 

I dont have much of a 'feel' for whats healthy / normal with these little engines yet, so good for reference.

 

Have fun on your first outing!

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Jolly Green Monster

Me neither but all four the same or similar would be a start lol

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Anthony

I'd be wary of comparing absolute figures from other people, as in my experience different compression testers can read quite differently, particularly old/cheap ones.

 

Far more important is the difference between cylinders which in your case clearly highlights a problem on the 1st tested cylinder.

 

Going by my tester, all your results would be distinctly on the low side and the suspect cylinder pretty horrendous.

 

For what it's worth, on my tester I expect to see around 180-190psi (12-12.5bar) for a healthy 8v engine with no more than around 10psi difference between cylinders. It seems to correspond pretty well to what an expensive Snap On tester reads, so I figure it's in the rough ballpark accuracy wise.

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Jolly Green Monster

Oops track day friday and just booked a sprint the week after

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Jolly Green Monster

New seats for when cage and harnesses are in

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Bought a second set of wheels too

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