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 Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:21 am |
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Joined: Jan 01, 2014
Posts: 131
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Location: Bradford, UK
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Hi Guys,
New to the forum but been tinkering with cars for years now. Always thought about build threads, but I'm too keen to get on the spanners and photos is always an after thought so this will be my 1st. No crazy plans for the Pug just a few subtle tweaks here and there, no big bore exhaust's or aeroplane wing spoilers here I'm afraid 
A couple of my more memorable cars for starters -
The 1st car i properly messed with a BMW 328i, m50 manifold, BBTB, massive induction kit, exhausts etc etc
MR2 Roadster, probably one of the most fun cars iv ever owned, even if i did look like a hairdresser 
Rav4 D4D, Great fun in the snow
BMW 320D M-Sport, Always regretted not getting the 330D but a great car all the same
A4 quattro 1.8t Sport, fantastic car, spent a small fortune getting from the standard 150BHP to a more respectable 218BHP. Bigger turbo, bigger injectors, front mount intercooler, straight through exhaust Lightweight Flywheel, Fast road clutch. The list goes on, i only recently sold this and often wonder why 
iv had countless other motors along the way including a couple of imprezas, i also got to use my brothers 380BHP Escort Cosworth for 6 months whilst he was banned not so long ago, the day he took the keys back was a very sad day 
And that brings me to my latest acquisition, a tidy unmolested 206 GTI -
Plans include -
Coil-overs (purchased) (complete)
Adjust torsion bars (complete)
SP Arches (purchased) (complete)
180 Spoiler (Purchased) (complete)
Remove aerial (complete)
Ecosse Quickshift
Alloys Refurbed (thinking white???) now looking for a set of vortex
New Rubber as not one tyre matches at the mo 
A few exhaust tweaks (janspeed back box and race pipe fit) tubular manifold on its way soon
A few intake tweaks (simota induction kit fit) 180 manifold on its way soon
Uprated brakes (purchased)
A good blast with the rotary polisher
And a good service including timing belt as there's no record of it being done in the history and its fast approaching 100k 
Masked headlights (Complete)
Few bits of colour coding (Complete)
I'm a mechanical engineer/fabricator by trade and have a well kitted out garage come workshop in the garden so ill be doing all the work myself.
Where the magic happens
Alongside the Pug I'm also in the middle of dropping a bike engine into a road legal buggy, although progress has halted a bit recently due to work I'm hoping to have it ready for some summer fun!!
So that's me guys, ill try my best to keep the thread updated as i go, and I'll hopefully be able to share some of my experience on what seems like a fantastic forum!!
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:11 pm |
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Joined: Feb 10, 2010
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Location: Palestine
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Welcome to 206info mate,you got a very nice collection of cars through the time,the Audi A4 is amazing :),but you got the 206 now,and it's a great car as far as I seen,the interior in good condition,but the headlights been replaced,as they are Crystals,while you got phase 1 tail lights,but still cars looks great,so you can add to the list Phase 2 tail lights,this way you make the rear end stands along with mods list you got :).
I like your garage with all the tools :D,it's a good start to replace the timing belt :),hope you will keep this updated.
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:44 pm |
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Location: Bradford, UK
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Cheers timon, yea the a4 was a fantastic car to own. I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure all Gti's came with crystals, think I may have read it somewhere on this forum infact.
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:21 am |
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Location: Bradford, UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:36 pm |
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:57 pm |
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Location: Bradford, UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:47 pm |
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Location: Bradford, UK
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Just a small update,
With lots of swearing and a few sore fingers from poorly aimed hammer swings I finally managed to get the torsion bars out and adjusted  Gave everything a good clean and got it all back together with new dampers and copious amounts of copper slip. it's a bit lower than I was aiming for but I reckon I could adjust them in no more than an hour now that everythings moving freely. Also managed to pick up a nice carbon fibre simota induction kit that was a 5 min bolt on affair.
Got a couple of days off next week so I'll be getting stuck in with the pug-
Coilovers to fit
Readjust torsion bars
Tidy up rear end, thinking maybe dewiper??
Got a centre silencer delete pipe to fit, while iv got the exhaust in bits I want to tweak the backbox a bit as it doesn't seem to sit right at the minute.
A few bits of paint here and there.
And if time permits i'll be doing the timing belt and maybe the clutch.
I'm not using the car for another month or 2 yet, as I have a little 4x4 I plod about in through the winter, so I'm not too fussed if it's on axle stands for a couple of weeks.
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:09 pm |
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Joined: Jun 04, 2010
Posts: 1691
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Location: northallerton
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cracking on nicely with this, will be keeping an eye out for updates, love the garage wish i had the space for something like that im stuck out in all the elements lol, 100k miles aint that high for the gti ive seen them in the 130k mark without issues, when doing the timing are you changing the water pump??
if you want it to sound nice and keep standard exhaust (minus silencer as you mentioned) get a anifold fitted give a good gain and would be easy for you to fit just need to remove the subframe
welcome
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:56 am |
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Yea I'll deffo be doing the water pump, be stupid not to. I learned the hard way on my old a4, about a month after I did the belt the pump failed and I had it in bits again. Not sure about a manifold at the minute, haven't got the money for anything decent and iv had cheapo eBay tubulars crack in the past. Can you recommend a good one at a reasonable price? Been toying with the idea of a few 180 bits, intake and exhaust manifolds mostly. I know the intake will fit with a bit of tweaking and give decent gains but I'm not sure about the exhaus, or if it would even be worth it?
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:21 pm |
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Location: northallerton
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The exhaust manifold makes a good improvement over standard but requires the cat to be cut and flange welded on l. The one I have is less than 200 on ebay atm called race land and haven't caused me any issues in 5 years. The inlet fits fine with an adaptor plate for the throttle body which someone on here has made up to sell and has done a guide for the swap but I would say you will need a remap after
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:12 pm |
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Iv got access to a laser cutter at work so I'll more than likely be making my own adapter plate. Don't mind a bit of chopping and welding of the exhaust either. Just bought a tig setup that iv been itching to use on something other than scrap  I'll deffo be giving the car to my mate to play with the map at some point too but I'll be holding off on that for now until I decide where I'm heading with the engine mods. Cheers for the heads up on the exhaust manifold I'll look into it. Do you know if the 180 exhaust manifold fits if so is it worthwhile?
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:09 pm |
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looks like a smart car! looking forward to seeing the outcome.
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:22 pm |
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Yeah the 180 fits but this it catches on the linkages not 100% on that. Think the pipe is smaller tho so can't see much improvement.
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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:28 pm |
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So my 2 days off came and went, didn't get nearly as much done as I was planning due to the glorious British weather but got the centre pipe fitted, was pretty straight forward and took about an hour including a trip to a local motor factors for some new exhaust rubbers. Also tweeked the back box a bit because for some reason the tailpipe was sat funny. Nothing 20 minutes with an angle grinder and welder couldn't sort
Got the coilys fit as well, again pretty straight forward. Managed to do it with the the control arms in place using a set of old cut down spring clamps to compress the springs in situ. The Top mount bearings fell to bits in my hands so another trip to the motor factors for some shiney new skf top mounts. Took about 3 hours which was just as well as the weather took a turn for the worse.
Spent the rest of my weekend doing a bit of painting, including a phase 2 bootstrip I bought of a member on here. Also did one of the sp arches, again from a member on here, that arrived in a disgusting state. I won't name and shame but I wasn't happy at all when they turned up, and was even less happy with the attitude of the seller. In a moment of madness I also painted the front badge but it looks hideous and will be getting replaced at the 1st opportunity.
only took a few pictures here and there, I'll upload them later
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Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 8:39 am |
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A couple of pictures of the work iv being doing -
Rear Before
Rear After
Spot the difference also got a set of phase 2 rears in the post, i saw them cheap and couldn't resist even though i quite like the phase 1's
Coil-overs in
GTI 180 styleeee (used the new style 4D wrap, looks much better in the flesh)
Painted badge, bit of a moment of madness and will be going very soon as im not a fan at all
And lastly after scratching my new spoiler for the last time i got rid of the roof aerial and replaced it with in internal type affair. I've done a bit of a write up in the "styling how to's" for any one interested
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Time to break out the big guns then. The welder came out along with some drilled out M12 nuts and 20 mins later all 4 wheel nuts were smoking on the ground 
so looks like a stubby beesting will be in order.
I wont be defeated 
