1992 Peugeot 106 XSi - Strip, Respray, Rebuild OEM+
Discussion
t4thomas said:
Hi Dom,
Congratulations, the car is looking great.
I am about to sell my Rallye, with a view to joining your V6 club.
What's next for the XSi?
Hi Thomas - Many thanks, I am very happy with it.Congratulations, the car is looking great.
I am about to sell my Rallye, with a view to joining your V6 club.
What's next for the XSi?
Having said that; we're currently in Oslo and I had to leave the car covered in dust from construction work my neighbours are doing.
The poor car
My poor paint!!Would be great if you joined the 'V6 Club' but I'd be tempted to try and keep the Rallye as it will be a relatively small dent in a nice V6.
I think I'll finish some of the lights, badges etc on the XSi so it 'looks finished' but the engine needs to come out next - joy!
Hi Thomas - I'm pleased to hear you joined the V6 club!
I looked at a Mk.2 in silver when I was looking - my favourite colour for the Mk.2!
Progress here has been slow - The neighbours have been doing their drive and covered the XSi in brick dust and alike so I had to go and buy some new hose attachments, yesterday. It needs a good clean and then back to getting some jobs done!
I am in Oxshott, Surrey - not a million miles from where you bought your car from. Where are you based?
I need to get the next Surrey meet organised, you should come along: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
I looked at a Mk.2 in silver when I was looking - my favourite colour for the Mk.2!
Progress here has been slow - The neighbours have been doing their drive and covered the XSi in brick dust and alike so I had to go and buy some new hose attachments, yesterday. It needs a good clean and then back to getting some jobs done!
I am in Oxshott, Surrey - not a million miles from where you bought your car from. Where are you based?
I need to get the next Surrey meet organised, you should come along: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Will be watching this one:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-106-Xsi/27277420...
Interesting spec with the larger engine on 'bodies.
Not entirely dissimilar to what I am trying to achieve (except for the engine) in terms of it still being unstripped and kept on the road
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-106-Xsi/27277420...
Interesting spec with the larger engine on 'bodies.
Not entirely dissimilar to what I am trying to achieve (except for the engine) in terms of it still being unstripped and kept on the road
Alive! Alive on the drive! Well, dead on the drive?
I'm almost ready to start again now the weather is back but life seems to have taken over.
Will see if I get under the bonnet this weekend and snap some pics. All needs a good clean first!
Couple of Miami blue cars seem to have appeared and sold on eBay the last couple of weeks
I'm almost ready to start again now the weather is back but life seems to have taken over.
Will see if I get under the bonnet this weekend and snap some pics. All needs a good clean first!
Couple of Miami blue cars seem to have appeared and sold on eBay the last couple of weeks
I really think they're one of the Best looking hatches.
Needs to be an S1 though and have the round rear arches so an XSi or an S1 Rallye. Prefer the XSi as the plastic bodykit echoes the 205 GTi... hence that's what I have!
Just realised that Mrs9 has booked us a cottage in the Cotswolds for the weekend, so will try and get out there one evening this week!
Needs to be an S1 though and have the round rear arches so an XSi or an S1 Rallye. Prefer the XSi as the plastic bodykit echoes the 205 GTi... hence that's what I have!
Just realised that Mrs9 has booked us a cottage in the Cotswolds for the weekend, so will try and get out there one evening this week!
When I said it will be summer, of course I meant summer 2020!
Lockdown has finally given me the time, energy and sobriety to get this moving again! Shame it has taken CV-19 to get me there
One (non-XSi) cylinder head off, aluminium block + flat top pistons discovered (late 206?), spare XSi/Rallye head on and buttoned up!
So, it will be a bit low compression for a while but I have the XSi crank, rods and pistons (hopefully) inside another spare engine, which I will use when I rebuild one of the spares.
Will get a proper update on here in the coming days to document it all... I have a report to finish for work today.
Something to prove I really did get under the bonnet:
It also took a garage reorganisation to enthuse me... this is after ~£230 of racking was delivered and a weekend of construction and unboxing parts.
New fuel filter, oil filter, plugs, leads, cambelt, tensioner, water pump, engine mount, blah, blah, blah out on the bench for this week!
The one thing that may prevent me from getting it to MOT (well, couldn't anyway at the moment) is still the rats nest of (headlight at least) wiring.
Might need someone who understands electrics better than me to take a look... also need front brake pipes too actually...
I'll get there... slowly!
Lockdown has finally given me the time, energy and sobriety to get this moving again! Shame it has taken CV-19 to get me there
One (non-XSi) cylinder head off, aluminium block + flat top pistons discovered (late 206?), spare XSi/Rallye head on and buttoned up!
So, it will be a bit low compression for a while but I have the XSi crank, rods and pistons (hopefully) inside another spare engine, which I will use when I rebuild one of the spares.
Will get a proper update on here in the coming days to document it all... I have a report to finish for work today.
Something to prove I really did get under the bonnet:
It also took a garage reorganisation to enthuse me... this is after ~£230 of racking was delivered and a weekend of construction and unboxing parts.
New fuel filter, oil filter, plugs, leads, cambelt, tensioner, water pump, engine mount, blah, blah, blah out on the bench for this week!
The one thing that may prevent me from getting it to MOT (well, couldn't anyway at the moment) is still the rats nest of (headlight at least) wiring.
Might need someone who understands electrics better than me to take a look... also need front brake pipes too actually...
I'll get there... slowly!
Give us more, said no one! So pics below... [spoiler] it is running. Just.
Wouldn't idle but revved quickly and seemingly cleanly. Plumbed an old radiator in and found the vacuum line from the FPR unconnected.
Reconnected it, threw some water in and it just about idles but not won't rev and dies... hmmm...
No leaks, neither oil nor water, which is nice but I suspect the rad will have to come back out to attack the wiring.
Anyway, some pics, which may be of interest:
The old oil... didn't tell Mrs9 I needed a cooking pot!
Old heading coming off... not a Rallye/XSi.
Head off... oh, it's an alloy block with flat top pistons! Late 206? Think it might have overheated!
More skank left behind when the head came off.
Thermostat housing wasn't pretty... just used one from another Rallye engine I had.
I am guessing the roller head that came off "Z04" is the one that came with the engine. 75bhp? Pitting was bad.
Dropped that on my "Cup" engine and nicked the head off that. Building back up shot.
New head buttoned back up. Timing seems fine. Wiring loom a bit of a mess so wonder if there's an issue there.
What is this yellow wire hiding back behind the TPS??
Oh, and here is a ZERO mile drop link I swapped on back when it was painted... weird! Don't buy cheap! A lot of rubber parts have perished, actually, even the refurbished brake calliper dust seals and steering rod ends. Annoying.
More wiring mess... most headlights and rad.
So... next thing to find out is why it wouldn't idle but revved pretty nicely and then would idle (badly) but wouldn't rev.
I have a new FPR in a box in a tool drawer so might strip the inlet and injection back off to look over and check.
Gives me access to the steering rack as well to do the quick rack and change all of the rubber boots, which are dead!
Lots of wires looking pretty sorry for themselves at the plugs (or the plugs themselves). Could probably do with another loom.
I think we all knew this wasn't going to be a quick project... But 4yrs later - it runs! Sort of at least!
Wouldn't idle but revved quickly and seemingly cleanly. Plumbed an old radiator in and found the vacuum line from the FPR unconnected.
Reconnected it, threw some water in and it just about idles but not won't rev and dies... hmmm...
No leaks, neither oil nor water, which is nice but I suspect the rad will have to come back out to attack the wiring.
Anyway, some pics, which may be of interest:
The old oil... didn't tell Mrs9 I needed a cooking pot!
Old heading coming off... not a Rallye/XSi.
Head off... oh, it's an alloy block with flat top pistons! Late 206? Think it might have overheated!
More skank left behind when the head came off.
Thermostat housing wasn't pretty... just used one from another Rallye engine I had.
I am guessing the roller head that came off "Z04" is the one that came with the engine. 75bhp? Pitting was bad.
Dropped that on my "Cup" engine and nicked the head off that. Building back up shot.
New head buttoned back up. Timing seems fine. Wiring loom a bit of a mess so wonder if there's an issue there.
What is this yellow wire hiding back behind the TPS??
Oh, and here is a ZERO mile drop link I swapped on back when it was painted... weird! Don't buy cheap! A lot of rubber parts have perished, actually, even the refurbished brake calliper dust seals and steering rod ends. Annoying.
More wiring mess... most headlights and rad.
So... next thing to find out is why it wouldn't idle but revved pretty nicely and then would idle (badly) but wouldn't rev.
I have a new FPR in a box in a tool drawer so might strip the inlet and injection back off to look over and check.
Gives me access to the steering rack as well to do the quick rack and change all of the rubber boots, which are dead!
Lots of wires looking pretty sorry for themselves at the plugs (or the plugs themselves). Could probably do with another loom.
I think we all knew this wasn't going to be a quick project... But 4yrs later - it runs! Sort of at least!
I'll plead some mitigating circumstances for my slowness... 2 oil price crashes have meant that I've had to be a bit more careful with money, though we've survived so far... for now.
We're also on our 3rd house since I bought it, albeit this one we own, so went through the buying process etc between crashes, so the car wasn't a priority.
And this:
[url
|https://thumbsnap.com/LGuQU4DW[/url]
Makes it a bit difficult to do a lot of the heavy stuff on my own and I reckon after 6/7hrs straight getting it running yesterday, I'm out 'til next weekend now
Hopefully having set up the work benches and racking in the garage I can do more 'desk based' work!
So, back to the car... think I will strip back off the inlet, which might allow me to access the loom. Will swap out the strange ICV the XSi has and the FPR and maybe see if I can run through the loom looking for breaks.
Weird that it revved smoothly and cleanly without the FPR fully hooked up and the rad in. Could plugging in the rad temp sensor have done something? Why did the FPR make things worse (albeit it would just about idle)?
Could simply be low on fuel but I chucked a couple of litres of fresh V-Power in and if there were any blockages (new fuel filter to go on) then would it have run initially? Could the fuel pump be on its way out? Couldn't hear it running at all but then it was getting some fuel at least...
Can you send looms anywhere for repair?
We're also on our 3rd house since I bought it, albeit this one we own, so went through the buying process etc between crashes, so the car wasn't a priority.
And this:
[url
|https://thumbsnap.com/LGuQU4DW[/url]Makes it a bit difficult to do a lot of the heavy stuff on my own and I reckon after 6/7hrs straight getting it running yesterday, I'm out 'til next weekend now
Hopefully having set up the work benches and racking in the garage I can do more 'desk based' work!
So, back to the car... think I will strip back off the inlet, which might allow me to access the loom. Will swap out the strange ICV the XSi has and the FPR and maybe see if I can run through the loom looking for breaks.
Weird that it revved smoothly and cleanly without the FPR fully hooked up and the rad in. Could plugging in the rad temp sensor have done something? Why did the FPR make things worse (albeit it would just about idle)?
Could simply be low on fuel but I chucked a couple of litres of fresh V-Power in and if there were any blockages (new fuel filter to go on) then would it have run initially? Could the fuel pump be on its way out? Couldn't hear it running at all but then it was getting some fuel at least...
Can you send looms anywhere for repair?
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