The Sixxer

[DrewHughes]

Hey there.

So I've been thinking for a while about whether to have a track car, whether to save my Fiesta and use that for that for track or buy another Evo and have a fast car for the road.

After many months of trying to decide I was offered a Peugeot 306 GTI6, I know many hate them, and tbh I aint a massive fan of them.

But when I was thinking about having a track car this was on my list of possibilities.

List

Clio 1*2
205 GTI
306GTi 6
BMW E36 328i

I ended up with the GTI6 mainly due to it coming from a friend, and picked it up for a cool £450 with a rebuilt engine with 30k on it.

The GTI6 is a very capable car, its got 182 performance at a fraction of the cost, and the engines are pretty solid, also another good point is that parts are laughably cheap. Just sourced some KW v2 inox coilovers which new are about 600-700 for a mere 300 with about 10,000 road miles.

So anyway. The car.

Day 1

Upon Arrival













I started stripping the interior pretty much as soon as I got it, bar from giving it a quick wash.

It isn't much progress but the car didn't arrive until late afternoon, so I did the best I could with the time I had available to me.



Its just literally the rear half thats been stripped.

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Now a few may ask what my plans are for it. Well simply the plan is to use it, I get sick of people building 'track cars' and tbh most of them never get to see the track and end up breaking them because they either get bored, or run of time, money or patience. This isn't going to be one of them projects, and wont be chasing magazine features, this project is for me to enjoy and if I had big plans and want to get a mag feature I certainly wouldn't a Peugeot 306.

I'm going in with the attitude of if it isn't broken dont fix it, and when it does break only then replace/up rate the part.

For now theres only going to be the basic stuff getting done, but don't expect it to be amazing attention to detail and then dont expect it be **** either.


News Update

Yo,

Just to keep you guys informed, I've still got the car, only thing ive done is stripped it out, but I have been collating parts for it and waiting for a some more stuff to arrive, and become available from a car being broke for spares.

The plan is to get more or less everything I need to build it, and just do it all. Reason im doing it this way, is because of if I change my mind or if somethings comes up I could just sell the parts off and dont have to bother about taking them off the car.

Anyway heres a teaser.






The updates should come thick and fast when progress starts, if all goes to plan.

Aiming to get its first outing hopefully this year.

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Day 2

Please excuse the lack of detailed photo's, but we had a job on.

Cage.

Some minor teasers.

Made some progress today in a relatively small space of time.





Fortunately for me the donor car is sat right next to my car So pretty got **** all to mess about with.


Day 3

So progress over the xmas period has been pretty much 0, but yesterday was the first day back on the car.

Oh and the time had come to tackle the rear beam........oh wow. We started at 9am, and by the close of play it was still putting up a fight.

We had a 10 tonne puller which wasn't fully working properly, in the end we had to call in reinforcements by the means of the a sledge hammer.

And it still didn't shift it. So we got to buy a new puller and wait till next time to sort it, which will then make way for my new KW inox v2s.

Only constructive thing we did was take the terribly hideous tow bar off, and finish off bolting the cage in as I had ran out of bolts.

Done

• Fit Cage
  
• Remove old exhaust
  
• Remove tow bar
  
• Strip car
  

To do

• Lower rear beam
  
• Fit new exhaust
  
• Fit new suspension
  
• Fit new discs and pads
  
• Fit braided lines
  
• Fit seats and harnesses
  
• Look at all belts and pulleys
  
• Full service and full system fluid flush (say that when your drunk)
  
• Grease steering column u-joint
  

So that's basically the list, as you can see I have not gone for any dramatic mods but then that's not to say they wont come at all.

I've done what NEEDS doing as of now, with added safety for piece of mind.

I want to learn the car, learn the craft, and learn driving properly, and THEN I will look into improving the car my way, and suited to me. Rather then go balls deep.

Not really much point posting a pic, but #becauseracecar

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GOODIES




Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh.


Day 4(Half day)

Hey guys, not much point in posting pictures of this particular day as there was not much to see, and its just gone over the ****ty stage of the build so to speak.

The rear beam has finally been taken off, completely rear greased, and lowered on KW V2's, the tube was in absolutely immaculate condition for a 120,000 mile car, looked more like a 40,000 miler, but it was a complete tard to do and took a total of 1.5 days, 2 10 tonne pullers, some extreme heat and a sledge hammer to do. Not fun.

So hopefully now the good stuff will come, so its on with fitting the new parts.


Done

• Fit Cage
  
• Remove old exhaust
  
• Remove tow bar
  
• Strip car
  
• Lower rear beam
  

To do

• Fit new exhaust
  
• Fit new suspension
  
• Fit new discs and pads
  
• Fit braided lines
  
• Fit seats and harnesses
  
• Look at all belts and pulleys
  
• Full service and full system fluid flush (say that when your drunk)
  
• Grease steering column u-joint
  

I estimate about another 3 full days before she is ready for the track.

Just need to get some 888's / or AO48's ordered.

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Day 5(half day)

Was pretty much on my own for most of it, didn't make as much progress as I would of liked as the front suspension put up a bit more fight than I was expecting tbh.

But the new KW's are finally on, I had some more other bits I should of done first, but its nice to see some shiny bits on the car, most of the stuff I've done isn't really worthy of any pictures tbh. I rebuilt the rear beam..........but thats it, I didn't paint/powder coat it or anything, as there's no point to me.

Anyway, after a bit of a struggle with the fronts, I need 2 new pinch bolts and 2 new drop links as I pretty battered them in my rock ape ways.

So parts will be on order Monday ready for next Saturday, which should see the brakes being put back on with some new fluid. And i'll be running the following setup.

Standard calipers
Brembo solid discs
m1155 fronts
m1144 rears
ATE Superblue Dot4

Will see how this setup fairs, but will possibly upgrade to brembo 4 pots / kad 6 pots or something similar.

I also want some new wheels, maybe some black pro race 1.2's, but I just cant bring myself to get them, my standard cyclones can do the job, so why change them? I could spend the money else where...like paying for a track day / fuel and just generally using it.


Pics, again very boring but not a lot to show, but the eagle eye theres some minor tell tale signs of other happenings in the unit, see if you can spot them.





My bargain almost brand new KW's



Cage shot



Messy, unfinished interior



Day 6

Well yesterday saw the completion on the front suspension with 2 new drop links as the old ones were butchered, again ive not replaced them with any aftermarket ones.

I want to see what the car handles like with near standard parts obviously other than the KW's I've fitted and possibly some AO48's.

Also fitted the new braided lines on the rear brakes, with new brembo solid discs coupled with some m1144 pads.

Went to fit the fronts only to find out that the discs that I had been sent were the wrong size!