My 306 rallye 386 bhp

[C. Grimsley]

Well a normal sunday afternoon nursing a sore head after the night before i decided to take the car out the garage and give it some love and attention, oh and a good thrashing, not used the car for a good 11 months (had another car i was useing, plus owning a garage i was always in the recovery truck).

Was having thoughts of selling it as at the minute the car is probably as good as its going to get, i have done a lot of work to it, if you are interested you can read up on its progress on my website in the projects section www.cgcarsleicester.co.uk

Fell straight back in love with it, shes lovely, here are a few pictures for you, should be off to the ring in it next month.

Car is a 1999 306 Rallye which i bought completely standard in 2006 for the sum of £1800, car had done 57k miles with full history, still only done 64k and very rarely gets used, will be going to the ring with it next month (this will be the fifth time!!), i have since spent somewhere circa £10,000 on it and supercharged the car and more or less restored it to what you see, paintwork bar the bumpers and bonnet is all original.

Carl











The bit most people only get to see-




Here she is tucked back up next to her mate-

Edited by C. Grimsley on Sunday 19th September 19:29

[bazking69]

Looks fantastic.

[Beeby]

Prefer the 205 gti - a truly legendary car

[DiscoStu]

Absolutely awesome

205 looks nice aswell. I can see its a Rotrex charger, is that a Lynx kit?

Stu

[C. Grimsley]

DiscoStu said:

Absolutely awesome

205 looks nice aswell. I can see its a Rotrex charger, is that a Lynx kit?

Stu

The kit is one of my own kits, we made ten when Lynx Engineering stopped producing them for a short period of time, the charger is indeed a rotrex unit.


Carl

[ALfooy]

i must admit, i'm not a french car fan, but......

that is fantastic, i must admit i've been following a few of your posts man and i can see you love what you do, keep at it man, your doing great work

Edited by ALfooy on Monday 20th September 02:14

[jellison]

That must be TOTALLY undriveable! My last TVR had about 10bhp more, but then designed with a chassis to handle it.

Are you sure it has that much - or just been told by the blower people that is what it has (not the same thing!).

Edited by jellison on Monday 20th September 13:33

[snotrag]

I've met carl once or twice - he knows his stuff so I can well beleive that figure.

your right though, its a LOT of power! I always felt my GTi-6 could handle a bit more but perhaps not more than double...!

I presume it has a quaife/similar diff in it Carl?

Whats the suspension setup on the front too?

[Ash From Flux]

That's a great looking car. Nice tasteful mods on the outside and impressive power. Love it.

[5potTurbo]

ALfooy said:

i must admit, i'm not a french car fan, but......

that is fantastic ..... great work

+1

• nods*

[jellison]

lets see a video of this thing trying to get this supposed crazy power down. And the RR figures.

WAY to much for a FWD (IMHO).

[PhillipM]

Plenty of 306's putting this sort of power down quite happily, hit youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGL_yyAdJwU&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTi1jAgvpys&fea...

Edited by PhillipM on Monday 20th September 16:21

[dannytherev]

Looking good

[ManOpener]

Lovely looking car- but the Morette(?) headlights spoil the front end.

[N88]

That's incredible. Looks fantastic from the outside, very nicely done. Got any graphs to prove the figures?

[N88]

PhillipM said:

Plenty of 306's putting this sort of power down quite happily, hit youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGL_yyAdJwU&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTi1jAgvpys&fea...

Edited by PhillipM on Monday 20th September 16:21

There's no way the car in that 2nd vid is putting out 454bhp. It's barely moving up that hill!

[Adz The Rat]

jellison said:

That must be TOTALLY undriveable! My last TVR had about 10bhp more, but then designed with a chassis to handle it.

Are you sure it has that much - or just been told by the blower people that is what it has (not the same thing!).

Edited by jellison on Monday 20th September 13:33

Why must it be totally undriveable??

There is plenty of tuned FWD cars putting out that power or more.

With the right tyres / suspension and a lsd they can be made to drive well and be lots of fun.

[N88]

Adz The Rat said:

With the right tyres / suspension and a lsd they can be made to drive well

Until it starts raining!

[ApexJimi]

N88 said:

PhillipM said:

Plenty of 306's putting this sort of power down quite happily, hit youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGL_yyAdJwU&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTi1jAgvpys&fea...

Edited by PhillipM on Monday 20th September 16:21

There's no way the car in that 2nd vid is putting out 454bhp. It's barely moving up that hill!

That's what I thought too, I'd have expected it to be moving quicker than that, even accounting for grip issues.

[Ponk]

N88 said:

Adz The Rat said:

With the right tyres / suspension and a lsd they can be made to drive well

Until it starts raining!

From the track days i've done in the wet, it's always been the RWD cars struggling. I imagine RWD is more fun in the wet though