I have seen the site advertised from a recent report in the UK mag Performance French Car so come over to have a look.
Ive seen some quality examples on this forum and would like to see your comments on my own car.
Bit of a story line for you to show where the rallyes come over the past year.
For starts, bought it may 2006, completely standard, had seen better days bodywork wise with most panels keyed and dented. But engine was a minter which is more what I was interested in as it was gonna get hammered. About half of these engines suffer from 'snappers' where the cam belt has gone, common fault with failing belts and cheap rebuilds resulting in rubbish engines.
Anyhow, pretty much as I bought it, standard. 167bhp, 6 speed box, one of only 500 rallyes ever produced (only 200 in white) and there aint to many of these left.
That very weekend, I fitted the single wiper
Then 3 hours later I had lowered it 60mm all round on puma springs, Gmax shocks up front and Avo shocks rear (with the help of a mate, Ricky P doing the torsion bar)
Next it was into the bodyshop to get all the tatty panels sorted, all the scratches out, colour coding of all the black rubstrips and the like, and mirrors on.
Fitted the Magnex Group N system, De-cat and induction kit. Also fitted the raceland bucket seats and Sparco 3 point harnesses.
FCS 2006 was 2 weeks later from buying it, and was straight on the track with it
Was awesome and defo a quality track motor.
Then put my new rims on after doing the track time!
Decided it was time to stip it a little, but meant the back end went up a little without the extra weight in it
I managed to source some phase 3 crystal headlights, and I smoothed and debaged the bonnet and grille
Then had another track day, this time at mallory park, good little track but decided the car wasnt up to the stick I was giving it in brakes and handling!
So suspension setup got changed with uprated mounts, and fully adjustable GAZ shock set up. Also dropped it more to suit my style and also to suit the look I wanted.
Now it was sitting 80mm up front and 100mm at back with a completely new setup. which works very well
To give you an idea, thats next to a standard 306
One of the regular drives up the the lakes for the weekend, blast on some proper roads, just as you should
few more trackdays and that, decided to remove my middle box and go straight through to improve ground clearence and also made a sump guard up as Id managed to smash a sump or too.
Also having problems keeping the oil temp at a safe working temp so fitted a cooler
Then decided on new seats and harnesses, and stripped it some more!
Time for race/rallye spec doorcards so again got busy making some up
And give the whole underside a treating and clean up
Its also been on the rollers, producing 181bhp at the fly and since Ive fitted the forced cold air inductiong kit and had a map fitted to fit the mods
Then smoothed the boot
To give you an idea of the stick I give it since owning it in just over a year, Ive done 30k in it and gone through 4 sets of front discs, 2 sets of rear discs, 3 sets of rear pads and 5 sets of front pads (all these uprated). Full set of suspension, several pair of front bushes and rear bushes (again uprated). lots of tyres and serveral driveshafts.
3 wheel refurbs from staining the wheels from v high temp brakes on the track, this is after a track day, and after washing the wheels, that 'red' caliper paint is rated 1500C temp and Ive burnt the pigment out of it.
Fresh cover of powder coat .... Again
These where brand new and after a half day at Mallory park on a track day
And more recently the 'Malteser induction kit' lol
And for USC Ive polished up the inlet manifold but this will be going I think unless I can get it mirror finish
The current spec (although there will be bits Ive missed)
Engine
- 2.0 litre 16 valve
- 6 speed
- Powertec Induction kit Developed into a one off forced cold air system 'Powered by Maltesers'
- Full stainless steel magnex with de-cat and middle box removed
- Nissens Alloy Radiator
- Mocal thermostatically controlled Oil Cooler
- Group N engine mount
- Polished inlet and one off painted cam cover
- Sump guard (Tarmac)
Suspension
- Lowered 80mm front/ 100mm rear on GAZ adjustables and reworked puma springs
- OMP front strut brace
- Uprated top mounts
- Uprated antiroll bar bushes
- Group N bottom arm bushes
- Powerflex bumpstops
- Group N Rear Bushes
Wheels
- Road - Rare 16" lightweight BK racing rims resprayed in white with Proxy and Pirrelli rubber
- Track - 15" Cyclones in white with track tyres
Brakes
- Ferodo DS2500 pads front and Mintex m1144 pads rear
- Group N heat treated grooved discs front and rear
- Race grade 5.1 dot fluid
- Red calipers all round
Exterior
- De-locked
- Dtm mirrors
- Single wiper and smooth arm
- Rear wiper removed
- Fully colour coded side strips
- Debadged and smoothed bonnet
- Debadged and smoothed grille
- Debadged/delocked and smoothed boot
- Crystal headlights
- Crystal repeaters
- Full Rallye decals
- Ring Rally Sport 80w xenon main and dip bulbs
- Underfloor painted and sealed
- Tank guard
- Rally Sunstrip
Interior
- Sparco ring steering wheel
- Richbrook 6 speed gear knob
- OMP Record bucket seats
- 3 inch aircraft bucket release 4 point harnesses
- Fully stripped, carpets, rear seats, plastics, door cards and sound deadening etc.
- One off light weight plastic door cards
- Helmet hammock
- Spare wheel strap
- Custom dash mounted 'Rallye' Fire Extinguisher
- Drivers mounted Fire Extinguisher
ICE
- JVC KD-LHX501 Exad touch screen head unit
- Maystar components up front in one off floor mounted pods
Security
- Sigma S series cat 1
- Laserline Immobiliser cat 2
Tracks To Date
- Elvington
- Bruntingthorpe
- Donington
- Mallory Park
- Drag strip- York
- Drag strip- Santa Pod
And some recent pics
And From FCS 2007
Comments welcome
.. I'm also registred on the PGTI forum. Hopefully we can meet sometime in real life, because we're planning to come overseas next year for FCS at least ... 
