Gone all chav Saxo VTR

[Sam the Mut]

Hopefully I won't get shot down for my purchase. Payed £750 for it. Has done 85.000 miles lots of old mot, receipts. last 12 months it has had quite a lot of work done. Tax and ticket till march. All standard apart from a after market air filter (sounds nice) and sony cd player.

Jobs to do.

1. Cambelt
2. attack a bit of rust under the ecu, nothing bad by i'll sort out before it's a problem.

Edited by Sam the Mut on Friday 21st October 22:38

[Sam the Mut]

Kitchski said:

Been there and still doing it with Saxos. Theres a chap on the Saxo forums selling a S2 106 Rallye engine, which is the same as the VTR's lump, only slightly more fruity. £100 and pretty much plug and play. It also looks completely identical to all but the expertly trained

What's your insurance like? The VTS is everything the VTR is, but with a proper engine. The VTR is still a good old bus though. They're cheap to run, easy to fix and contrary to what the majority of PHers would say (because they're French no doubt), they're pretty reliable.

Just watch the rear beams, gearboxes and rot around the floorpan on the jacking pads. They like to rust, these cars.

Link for the rallye engine?

update to come.

[Sam the Mut]

So had the car 4 days and really enjoying it. My daily drive before the saxo was a P reg 1.1 106, the diffrence is night and day but the power steering took a bit of getting used to and the brakes are mega. A few little bit and bobs the gearing seems rather long, and I would like the engine to rev a little higher

Little Jobs:

DONE Remove a bit of vinyl the previous owner has put on the door frame.
Clean and paint the wheel nuts silver
Refit the rear badges
little engine oil leak, Remove rocker cover and replace gasket
Sort rust patch out.

Nasty!

A bit of brake cleaner and polish later.


Modifications

Engine: Im still reading up on this so my facts might be a bit wrong, any advice would be appreciated.

I have done quite a bit of work on the top end of TU engines replacing a couple of bent valves on my 106 when I selected 2nd instead of 4th when I was 17 and changing the head gasket on mine and a few mates 106/saxos.

My plan is to find a 106 rallye head/xsi, inlet manifold, ecu(unlocked), loom etc and associated parts. Should be a stright swap apart from a bit of loom splicing. The reason behind this is that the 106 rallye had a wilder J cam. The rallye ecu will let it rev to 7400rpm and the head is a little better.

Gear Box:

I want to to get a s1 rallye and put a VTR 5th gear in. This is a rather easy mod as 5th gear sits in the gearbox sump





VTR S1 Rallye

Gears Gears
1st 3.471 1st 3.41
2nd 1.81 2nd 1.95
3rd 1.276 3rd 1.35
4th 1.026 4th 1.05
5th 0.767 5th 0.85
Final Drive 3.765 Final Drive 4.54

Kitchski said:

Been there and still doing it with Saxos. Theres a chap on the Saxo forums selling a S2 106 Rallye engine, which is the same as the VTR's lump, only slightly more fruity. £100 and pretty much plug and play. It also looks completely identical to all but the expertly trained

What's your insurance like? The VTS is everything the VTR is, but with a proper engine. The VTR is still a good old bus though. They're cheap to run, easy to fix and contrary to what the majority of PHers would say (because they're French no doubt), they're pretty reliable.

Just watch the rear beams, gearboxes and rot around the floorpan on the jacking pads. They like to rust, these cars.

Im 19 with 1 years ncb and the insutance is £900 a VTS was a lot more and I can't justify giving that amount of money to them theifs. Yeh when I went to look at it, I went through it with a fine tooth comb. Really chuffed.

Edited by Sam the Mut on Sunday 23 October 19:55