Dimma 306

[Cezeli]

Thought id throw up a few pictures of my Dimma 306 and the slight progress i have made with it. I had a few up in the welcome thread so here are some more.

The front of the car is properly widened with extended wishbones and driveshafts and its sitting on proper Peugeot Sport Suspension also. The engine is from a 2.0 XSI 16v (i think these engines came in the later 306's - its only got 70k on it, not bad for a 15 year old 306) and is std. It has the genuine Dimma Kit obviously finished in, afaik, Dandelion Yellow that could be found on the 406 Coupe back in the day. The car has recently had a full respray so its sitting like new. 17" Compomotives are specially designed for the car with an offset that means no stupid spacers are required.

Few little things that need tweaked are:
Lose the headlights and a set of new phase 1 lights + indicators (Got them not fitted yet)
Lose the tints from the rear quarters and back window - std ftw (done)
Different wheels - Something White, Something Motorsport
Interior is going to get the biggest overhaul - std seats in it at the moment although i hope to get the yellow and black leather seats that are meant to be in the car. However im finally going to get my Sparco Evo's into something!! Flock the dash and add a Sparco 3 flat suede wheel.
Add the Maxi roof spoiler - i know a few people wont like this but to me it will complete the Maxi look to the car i want - it will also make it less fat looking!!
Exhaust trim at the rear needs looked at
Need to fill that hole in the rear bumper - im sure there is something like this on a std rear bumper?
Engine wise - Probably a GTI-6 with TB's

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Some rolling shots we got:

















As you can see the mounting point for the struts are modified properly to allow for the wider track...



It featured in Flush Bus magazine yeaaaaaaaaars ago!

The car has actually changed quite alot going by the spec list in the magazine. The car was originally painted Dakar Yellow with a pearl flip and had an 8v engine which was superchipped and had a gas flowed head - my car has a standard XSI 2.0 16v engine. It has the yellow and black leather seats in it too and the roof spoiler. Dash looks the same with the silver inserts and so on. It has a Scorpion Backbox on it also. The article is really shit though - i mean i could have written it when i was 18.

The biggest thing for me is the lights - i was always going to change back to standard but seeing it above means i will be wanting to do straight away - kinda embarrassed but i was actually coming round to the fancy angel eyes :confused: Seriously thinking of keeping the car Dandelion Yellow now but still going the absolute full hog with the Maxi look-a-like.

There you have it - another car i own on the front cover of a magazine - pity neither were down to any skill i have! lol

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We took the rear quarter windows out and i wasnt a hundred percent sure about taking the tints off or maybe it would be more accurate to say i wasnt sure how good it would look with the std tint - instantly it looks a million times better in my opinion. That sticky stuff is a nightmare to clean off though!!

Before





After





I think the lines of the car flow way better now.

Also the previous owner had a silver surround around the centre console - it looked grand but it had started to loosen. With the heatwave in late May it actually melted the glue/adhesive and was peeling off. It left the centre console a mess. They had also used Super glue which didnt help. So i knew Wayne had CF wrap so he got to work and did a sterling job on the Centre console and he also tackled the surround on the door handle too as it was painted silver to match the centre. Looks a million times better now - cheers dude, appreciate it!



Cheers for looking!