Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
Well, after recently jumping at the chance to have a company car to do my 25k a year in (320i M Sport if anyones interested 
), it was definately time to get back into fun cars, ie the French sh1t boxes that i know & love
After much umming & ahhing and deciding that the 328 really needed to go, i spent some quality time browsing Pistonheads, ebay & essentially every French car forum in the UK. I set the budget at £2k all in & set to work tracking down & viewing some PH1 172's. Now i want a shed to track, but some of the 'things' i viewed were just wrong, seriously people, if your cars a nail, put it on the ad, save buyers a journey So after some more deliberating, probably over a KFC & some Stella, i decided to really go back to my roots, ie Pug, & two very well known & frankly brilliant cars in the shape of the 306 Gti6/Rallye and 106 Gti/Rallye.
Unfortunately, 106 gti's are expensive, 106 Rallyes are even worse & prohibitive running/tuning costs were starting to put me off the 306 - although i nearly bought a couple of bargains anyway lol. Then, one evening, on the way home from work, i changed my route and spotted something vaguely appealing ...
A shed. You know the ones, sat on someones drive, complete with spiders webs & flat tyres, the kind of car that screams, 'save me, i want to lose my interior, grow sticky tyres & be hammered around every track in the UK'.
I called the owner, viewed the car in the fading light, fell in love with its dents, cracked bumpers & unstuck trim & revelled in its fresh cambelt, exhaust, new cat & clutch. It had no mot or tax, but it just needed to be saved from the Sax-P 'parts for sale' section. Its a '00 PH2 as well so tbh, it was rude not to, especially with all those lovely warning lights on the dash
Soooo, after the 172 Cup blog, then the 328's rejuvenation, its now time for ...... Project Track Shed.
Beautiful isnt it
Mmmm dents
Cracks
Lampposts
& Walls
It even has an interior (for the time being)
And an engine
Plans are effectively:
MOT on Wednesday so i know what i need to fix (it will FAIL lol):
Then some new front rear bumpers (rear sourced already), an ABS Sensor (already have one), Remove fogs (they are both smashed) and fix anything else the MOT throws up ...
And then (over winter):
Bilstein Group N's, Faulkner springs, uprated ARB, 15" Pro Race 1.2's (maybe C5 steelies-less than 5kg each!!), sticky tyres, Gti6/Gti180 brake upgrade, track pads, OMP upper & lower braces, Raceland induction kit with Green filter, 4-2-1 manfold (Raceland or 2nd hand Supersprint), Pugsport 2" exhaust inc de-cat, 6 point cage, suitable buckets, harnesses & a diet (for me as well tbh). Not that i've been thinking about it that much
Cant wait to get started, really excited :race:
), it was definately time to get back into fun cars, ie the French sh1t boxes that i know & love After much umming & ahhing and deciding that the 328 really needed to go, i spent some quality time browsing Pistonheads, ebay & essentially every French car forum in the UK. I set the budget at £2k all in & set to work tracking down & viewing some PH1 172's. Now i want a shed to track, but some of the 'things' i viewed were just wrong, seriously people, if your cars a nail, put it on the ad, save buyers a journey
So after some more deliberating, probably over a KFC & some Stella, i decided to really go back to my roots, ie Pug, & two very well known & frankly brilliant cars in the shape of the 306 Gti6/Rallye and 106 Gti/Rallye.Unfortunately, 106 gti's are expensive, 106 Rallyes are even worse & prohibitive running/tuning costs were starting to put me off the 306 - although i nearly bought a couple of bargains anyway lol. Then, one evening, on the way home from work, i changed my route and spotted something vaguely appealing ...
A shed. You know the ones, sat on someones drive, complete with spiders webs & flat tyres, the kind of car that screams, 'save me, i want to lose my interior, grow sticky tyres & be hammered around every track in the UK'.
I called the owner, viewed the car in the fading light, fell in love with its dents, cracked bumpers & unstuck trim & revelled in its fresh cambelt, exhaust, new cat & clutch. It had no mot or tax, but it just needed to be saved from the Sax-P 'parts for sale' section. Its a '00 PH2 as well so tbh, it was rude not to, especially with all those lovely warning lights on the dash
Soooo, after the 172 Cup blog, then the 328's rejuvenation, its now time for ...... Project Track Shed.
Beautiful isnt it
Mmmm dents
Cracks
Lampposts
& Walls
It even has an interior (for the time being)
And an engine
Plans are effectively:
MOT on Wednesday so i know what i need to fix (it will FAIL lol):
Then some new front rear bumpers (rear sourced already), an ABS Sensor (already have one), Remove fogs (they are both smashed) and fix anything else the MOT throws up ...
And then (over winter):
Bilstein Group N's, Faulkner springs, uprated ARB, 15" Pro Race 1.2's (maybe C5 steelies-less than 5kg each!!), sticky tyres, Gti6/Gti180 brake upgrade, track pads, OMP upper & lower braces, Raceland induction kit with Green filter, 4-2-1 manfold (Raceland or 2nd hand Supersprint), Pugsport 2" exhaust inc de-cat, 6 point cage, suitable buckets, harnesses & a diet (for me as well tbh). Not that i've been thinking about it that much
Cant wait to get started, really excited :race:
