My Peugeot 205gti (Dimma) Restoration

[dimma205]

it has gone a lovely shade of pink but will have a fresh red respray when its ready

[Digby]

Great to see one again! Used to pass quite a few for sale at a garage in Longfield in Kent back in the day.

[Welshname]

Will be keeping an eye on this. Love a good dimma. Keep up the good work.

[8potdave]

Great project! Big fan of the 205 and more so the Dimma kit. Any young lad of the 90's can relate to this I imagine. Most bodykits were crap but these managed to pull it off nicely.

[epom]

Best of luck with, some cool retro going on

[Stuart Thompson]

PH lurker said:

This was a Dimma, wasn't it?

Bloody hell, is Max Power RIP? Another part of my yoof dead

[neiljohnson]

A friend had one back in the day that had the turbo conversion it was awesome if a little unreliable

[magpie21]

Great project.

There was another thread I followed a couple of years ago about a guy who restored one and put a Cosworth engine in with 4x4 running gear!!!
http://www.detailingworld.com/forum/showthread.php...

[Caddyshack]

Lol, since my last post, 1 page back I have bought a similar car, in red, kitted up, running 4x4 Cossie.....it is bonkers and I have started to restore it...still got the gti gti6 too so the wife is a little "confused"

Will get some pics up when I finish sorting out the interesting wiring....it is mentally fast!

[OlberJ]

Was that on ebay for not a lot of money recently?

[Caddyshack]

I don't know...how much was it on for? I bought it off here. Local chap to me, nice bloke, owned it for 6 years and the history file goes back to day 1. It is in good ish nick but is going to be totally rebuilt I think.

[dimma205]

I have spent a few hours today stripping the paint off the drivers side floor and found a few holes that will need cutting out and plating but nothing that cannot be repaired I have started to make a template for one of the bigger bits that need doing. Strange thing is that most of this rot has come fro the inside and rotted out im sure floorpan must have been soaked in water at some point.

I have allready welded some smaller holes up and dressed them up just got to get some sheet steel to carry out repairs and the spit should be ready in a few weeks so can really make headway into the floor and sills.

[Shadow R1]

Used to be one round here (Nottingham) in the dairy milk purple colour.
Please keep the updates coming.

[dom9]

Good project and updates - keep 'em coming!

[CudaBen21]

It looks great so far can not wait to see it finished! There is one of these Dimma kitted 205s were I am the last time I saw it was a few years ago under some old car parts I think its still there abandoned! Its near an Nsu Ro80 thats also been left near by. The things people abandon!

[dimma205]

Well I have started to cut rot from drivers side floor and have started to weld new plates in.


Rot cut out.







Then welded parts in managed to do one plate and dress up the other I have managed to tack but unable to fully weld yet as I dropped something on my auto darking welding lens so have a new welding mask coming.

[anonymous-user]

I am of the opinion that the 205 Dimma and Clio Dimma cars are becoming classics in their own right.

Good luck with the resto!

[andymc]

the williams dimma

[dimma205]

Heres another small update managed to get plate made and welded in front part of foot well not sure what the curved bit was for but I included it into the new panel I made cleaned welds off all thats left is to wait til car up on spit and weld from underside anywhere that needs doing.

[MrBrightSi]

Always like a factory fitted dimma clio/205. If they have the right power they suit the kit, not fans of 1.2 clios with big kits, but if its a williams or some turbo technics 205 then it suits it well.