Peugeot 406 Coupe - 3.0L V6. Complete refurb... very slowly
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Nothing to add, just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed following your projects over the years from the buggy to this, think I first saw your handiwork on 205gridrivers??
Sorry to hear about the eye injury, hope you've made a full recovery. Looking forward to many more updates on various French beauties.
Sorry to hear about the eye injury, hope you've made a full recovery. Looking forward to many more updates on various French beauties.
TGCOTF-dewey said:
I saw you'd had issues with your eye in the buggy thread... Hadn't realised it was so bad. Glad it's sorted.
Your previous job does explain how you're able to build stuff like the buggy. Good luck with the job hunting!
I mean even then I was self employed, most of my stuff is self taught to be fair. Explains why I can't get a new bloody job Your previous job does explain how you're able to build stuff like the buggy. Good luck with the job hunting!
happygoron said:
Nothing to add, just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed following your projects over the years from the buggy to this, think I first saw your handiwork on 205gridrivers??
Sorry to hear about the eye injury, hope you've made a full recovery. Looking forward to many more updates on various French beauties.
Yes, and the old PSOOC. I think the next thread will probably be on some Japanese tin though. I inherited an MX-5 that's having some welding and a complete suspension refresh shortly.Sorry to hear about the eye injury, hope you've made a full recovery. Looking forward to many more updates on various French beauties.
Although I do still have my old mans 405 Mi16x4 to rebuild but it's been rotting under a sheet and not even started. That ones a long time and a lot of money away.
happygoron said:
Nothing to add, just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed following your projects over the years from the buggy to this, think I first saw your handiwork on 205gridrivers??
Sorry to hear about the eye injury, hope you've made a full recovery. Looking forward to many more updates on various French beauties.
Plenty of 205gtidrivers alumni on PH!Sorry to hear about the eye injury, hope you've made a full recovery. Looking forward to many more updates on various French beauties.
Chasing down the usual electric gremlins from a german electrical system in a french car put together by italians, but mechanically she's been rock solid.
Debating making some tubular wishbones right now as the poly bushes are getting ready for a rebuild anyway...
Debating making some tubular wishbones right now as the poly bushes are getting ready for a rebuild anyway...
Edited by PhillipM on Sunday 20th August 14:20
Was up near the dyno guy the other day so felt it'd be rude not to slap the car on quickly while he cleaned me some injectors
Last time it was at that dyno it made 212bhp (with the backbox knocked straight through, cam timing advanced, bit of porting work to the inlet manifold/throttle and a foam cone filter on it).
This time around with the new air intake, new 2.5" exhaust system, the lightweight flywheel and a little tickle on the crank sensor to get a tiny bit more ignition advance it made 232bhp, so pretty happy with that.
It definately feels like it could take more timing though, gonna have to work out how to make something to adjust it better....
It made most of the gains up top in the last 1000rpm so it's not really much of a difference on the road, but it's basically gained a bit everywhere, filled in half of the torque dip these have at 3k and the car feels so much faster to rev when you blip down through the gearbox.
That's kinda surprising as there's not much flow just blipping the throttle for a heel and toe - but I think there was a resonance issue where the old system cranked down to 2" for the midbox, probably why it has that dip at 3.5k too, the later cars don't suffer from it but they have VVT and they also have a much longer 2-1 downpipe system that merges right where the cat-midbox joint is on the early engines - so that points at something similar as there's a tuned length there to cancel the dip out I would think.
Either way, pretty happy, 20bhp up on an old N/A car without any serious work is nice.
Last time it was at that dyno it made 212bhp (with the backbox knocked straight through, cam timing advanced, bit of porting work to the inlet manifold/throttle and a foam cone filter on it).
This time around with the new air intake, new 2.5" exhaust system, the lightweight flywheel and a little tickle on the crank sensor to get a tiny bit more ignition advance it made 232bhp, so pretty happy with that.
It definately feels like it could take more timing though, gonna have to work out how to make something to adjust it better....
It made most of the gains up top in the last 1000rpm so it's not really much of a difference on the road, but it's basically gained a bit everywhere, filled in half of the torque dip these have at 3k and the car feels so much faster to rev when you blip down through the gearbox.
That's kinda surprising as there's not much flow just blipping the throttle for a heel and toe - but I think there was a resonance issue where the old system cranked down to 2" for the midbox, probably why it has that dip at 3.5k too, the later cars don't suffer from it but they have VVT and they also have a much longer 2-1 downpipe system that merges right where the cat-midbox joint is on the early engines - so that points at something similar as there's a tuned length there to cancel the dip out I would think.
Either way, pretty happy, 20bhp up on an old N/A car without any serious work is nice.
Edited by PhillipM on Thursday 21st September 13:54
Whoops forgot to update this thread
The coolant tank is the old one - it did the usual trick and split on the poor factory welds - so I printed the clamp/stress relief pieces you see either side there in nylon, made the jubilee-clip clamp, then applied a bead of silicone after cleaning the plastic welds out, flame treated the surfaces and clamped the two halves together with the jubilee.
However, because they're so hard to get hold of, I am currently making replacements in stainless steel - I've got a prototype mocked up already but I need to find time to weld it together.
The coolant tank is the old one - it did the usual trick and split on the poor factory welds - so I printed the clamp/stress relief pieces you see either side there in nylon, made the jubilee-clip clamp, then applied a bead of silicone after cleaning the plastic welds out, flame treated the surfaces and clamped the two halves together with the jubilee.
However, because they're so hard to get hold of, I am currently making replacements in stainless steel - I've got a prototype mocked up already but I need to find time to weld it together.
Edited by PhillipM on Sunday 11th February 15:44
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