What Have You Done To Your 205 Today?

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

That's what I had with my beam Davie and turns out it is a beam from a base model I think!

 

 

That's an idea, have to measure the torsion bars tomorrow.

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

Fitted an aftermarket front bumper and regretted it! Fits s*it, deformed and saggy under the grill, holes for trim clips are too f'ing big and the oe red trim is too long to actually fit in the twatting thing!

 

Fitted a 23mm mastercylinder I picked up off castorkid recently, childs play

And while we're on the subject of children, I let my daughter loose with the rattle can on the rear quarter of my rally car....... It looks like a 5 year old did it! Oh..... wait a minute......

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

I had this issue on my cti when i got it, the trim that was on it was plastic and the clips were made of wire, hence the holes are larger. I bought a new front trim and it was a good inch wider than the pos bumper. Took me a long time to find an oe hard bumper cos that sag under the grill used to really get to me.

 

[rallyeash 155]

Got mine tax and tested the weekend.

 

Roll on Combe next weekend!

[Alan77 78 1 Cars]

Changed oil and filter and did a bit of plasticaring.

 

Also found this fella...

 

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

Pouring with rain here

[jamie_1992 66 1 Cars]

changed the duff alternator in the rain and an oil change

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Fitted strut brace

And loaded it ready for cadwell park tomorrow

[iPlod999 143 1 Cars]

Wasted an hour trying to fit my strut brace.

 

Tried to fit it with the adjuster to the left and to the right. With washers on the off side to lower the part fowling the bonnet.

 

No joy. It fits perfectly on a another GTI but not mine.

 

I give up.

[erbs 42 1 Cars]

dropped engine and gearbox out today

 

here is the pic of the hole

 

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

Wasted an hour trying to fit my strut brace.

 

Tried to fit it with the adjuster to the left and to the right. With washers on the off side to lower the part fowling the bonnet.

 

No joy. It fits perfectly on a another GTI but not mine.

 

I give up.

eeerrrrrmm it is straight?

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

French shell tolerances are all over the shop

 

I've driven mine all weekend, just a dying coil pack at 2k light load

[kyepan 291]

Bwarped to donnington yesterday, bwarped back, and then bwarped into the big smoke today... tripple bwarp...

 

also enjoyed having a factory sunroof.

Brakes still need bleeding though, el spongio.

[iPlod999 143 1 Cars]

eeerrrrrmm it is straight?

It's a brace which is angled to go over the original air filter.

 

Here it is.

 

 

 

The parts where you can see the various colours it has been painted over the years.

 

The bonnet touches on one part of the brace depending if is fitted left or right.

Edited April 21, 2014 by iPlod999

[Jolly Green Monster 51 1 Cars]

It's a brace which is angled to go over the original air filter.

I meant is the shell straight?

 

can you not elongate the holes?

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

dropped engine and gearbox out today

 

here is the pic of the hole

 

 

That probably had a pyramid of sediment tightly packed behind it for years that blocked up the ever increasing hole. When my cambelt chewed up and I took the head off to check the valves, number 1 and 2 liners from the gearbox end were pretty much caked solid from years of sediment from top to bottom, in fact there was so much im amazed it didn't cook on that side.

[erbs 42 1 Cars]

Yes it did,it was full,of what looked like sand, what causes this?

[welshpug 1,678]

poor maintenance.

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

Using plain water as well, its all the corrosion from all the individual engine parts that have gathered at the area of lowest water flow and built up over time from being baked and baked and baked.

[erbs 42 1 Cars]

ok,looks like i will get it stripped down then get it welded,looks like an engine rebuild is on the books

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

You'll really struggle welding that, the rotten area will be far bigger than the current hole leads you to believe. Once you start heating it the s*it will literally pour out of the pouress(sp) block, aluminium needs to be ultra clean to weld it properly. I'd be looking for another block, it's simply not worth messing about with.

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

Id at least have a go. But allan might be right in that it could be a lot worse than it first appears.

[Tom Fenton 1,562]

Al is speaking from experience as he an I tried to repair one that was no where near as bad as that and failed. Bin it find another I'm afraid.

[blandy 29]

Nearly got my cage all welded in (door bars to finish off)

 

[jack-da-stripper 5]

job of the day drop subframe BUT one of the captive nut spun so ended up cutting it out welding on a new nut and welding it all back together .... total and utter pain in the tits

Edited April 21, 2014 by jack-da-stripper