I've bought a Peugeot 207!
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Well Peugeot say it's a 207.... Mygale say it's a Spider:
Having planned to do a spot of racing next year I needed to find a car. I wanted something with a car powertrain rather than bike and ideally some type of sports prototype as I do the Formula car thing for a day job. I wanted something with a decent gearbox that I could use for some dev at some point and also being me I fancied something a bit unusual so when I saw a 207 Spider on RCD then it ticked all the boxes!
After a quick blat over to Denmark in our truck (which helpfully decided that heating was overrated) last weekend I've spent a bit of time today going over it:
It's a really good little racing car! It's a Mygale though so it was going to be fairly decent
Power is from a 1600CC THP lump usually found in the Mini Cooper S and 207 GTI, however in this application is has Marelli electronics, two intercoolers, a fiddled with turbo and makes 220bhp. The coolers are side mounted with a rad in the LH pod and a rad and two ICs in the RH pod. The gearbox is a Sadev ST75 sequential with an early version of Shiftec paddle shift. Suspension is inboard via pull rods all round and the dampers are Koni units. Brakes are the 330mm discs off the 407 road car with the twin pot calipers so discs and pads are cheap! It has electro-hydraulic PAS with a modified 407 rack and the uprights and bearings are modified road car too - so it should be pretty cost effective to run and repair. The fuel cell is a 60L bag with dry breaks for filling.
It's sat for a long while so is pretty grubby and needs a few bits and a decent prep but surprisingly little is wrong with it.
First job post clean was to add some silencing as the standard cars run open pipes. Being turbo'd it looses a lot of exhaust energy before it gets to the tail pipe but even so it needed something so I quickly nailed a spare silencer box to the back of it. This should get it quite enough and mean we can go out testing ASAP, at some point in the new year it will have something a bit prettier made that also deletes the flexi from the standard car so as to improve clearance to the rear floor which was showing some signs of heat damage.
I did a quick fix on the rear bodywork to solve the toasted area around the exhaust exit and VHT'd the floor to give it a fighting chance:
The original dash install was on the centreline of the cockpit and this doesn't work for me (too much muscle memory of glance down) so I swapped the wheel for an open top Momo and moved the dash to the centre behind the wheel which is much more like it:
The original shift system was early Shiftec which was as good as it got in the day:
However as it needed a service and things have moved on I've upgraded it to a Shift Servo based setup. It's all mocked up in position and the new mounting bracket and selector clevis should be out of machining around Wedensday next week to get this completed. As I don't have access to the Marelli GCU I've also retained the pressure sensor from the original valve block which now lives in a machined T-Piece on the air feed to the Shift Servo. It was an easy job to mod the standard gearbox loom to convert it from the old style valve connectors to a DTM. The Shift Servo is an awesome bit of kit as it integrates the valves onto the actuator so the response time is WAY quicker than a remote valve block setup.
Next jobs are to patch a bit of bodywork, replaced a few damaged Dzus fasteners, make a trick fueling rig, give the gearbox and engine a big service and then set it up to Pugs recomendation and get some testing done!
I'll keep you all informed of how it develops....... and I'm sure there is room for a MUCH bigger turbo with only a small mod to the bulkhead
Having planned to do a spot of racing next year I needed to find a car. I wanted something with a car powertrain rather than bike and ideally some type of sports prototype as I do the Formula car thing for a day job. I wanted something with a decent gearbox that I could use for some dev at some point and also being me I fancied something a bit unusual so when I saw a 207 Spider on RCD then it ticked all the boxes!
After a quick blat over to Denmark in our truck (which helpfully decided that heating was overrated) last weekend I've spent a bit of time today going over it:
It's a really good little racing car! It's a Mygale though so it was going to be fairly decent
Power is from a 1600CC THP lump usually found in the Mini Cooper S and 207 GTI, however in this application is has Marelli electronics, two intercoolers, a fiddled with turbo and makes 220bhp. The coolers are side mounted with a rad in the LH pod and a rad and two ICs in the RH pod. The gearbox is a Sadev ST75 sequential with an early version of Shiftec paddle shift. Suspension is inboard via pull rods all round and the dampers are Koni units. Brakes are the 330mm discs off the 407 road car with the twin pot calipers so discs and pads are cheap! It has electro-hydraulic PAS with a modified 407 rack and the uprights and bearings are modified road car too - so it should be pretty cost effective to run and repair. The fuel cell is a 60L bag with dry breaks for filling. It's sat for a long while so is pretty grubby and needs a few bits and a decent prep but surprisingly little is wrong with it.
First job post clean was to add some silencing as the standard cars run open pipes. Being turbo'd it looses a lot of exhaust energy before it gets to the tail pipe but even so it needed something so I quickly nailed a spare silencer box to the back of it. This should get it quite enough and mean we can go out testing ASAP, at some point in the new year it will have something a bit prettier made that also deletes the flexi from the standard car so as to improve clearance to the rear floor which was showing some signs of heat damage.
I did a quick fix on the rear bodywork to solve the toasted area around the exhaust exit and VHT'd the floor to give it a fighting chance:
The original dash install was on the centreline of the cockpit and this doesn't work for me (too much muscle memory of glance down) so I swapped the wheel for an open top Momo and moved the dash to the centre behind the wheel which is much more like it:
The original shift system was early Shiftec which was as good as it got in the day:
However as it needed a service and things have moved on I've upgraded it to a Shift Servo based setup. It's all mocked up in position and the new mounting bracket and selector clevis should be out of machining around Wedensday next week to get this completed. As I don't have access to the Marelli GCU I've also retained the pressure sensor from the original valve block which now lives in a machined T-Piece on the air feed to the Shift Servo. It was an easy job to mod the standard gearbox loom to convert it from the old style valve connectors to a DTM. The Shift Servo is an awesome bit of kit as it integrates the valves onto the actuator so the response time is WAY quicker than a remote valve block setup.
Next jobs are to patch a bit of bodywork, replaced a few damaged Dzus fasteners, make a trick fueling rig, give the gearbox and engine a big service and then set it up to Pugs recomendation and get some testing done!
I'll keep you all informed of how it develops....... and I'm sure there is room for a MUCH bigger turbo with only a small mod to the bulkhead
SamuliS said:
Interesting car ppbb. What year is it? And where was it raced originally, one marque series or GT racing?
It's a 2007 car and was originally built in 175bhp form to compete in a one make series backed by Peugeot that supported the LeMans series that year. It was then upgraded to "THP Spider" spec and ran in the THP Spider championship until this ended taking several race wins. From there it was used sporadically as a driver training car before competing in Danish Endurance Championship in 2015. I plan to do some sprints with it in Javelin, a few track days and probably rent a few drives in OSS to help cover the costs. I'm very time poor so the opportunity to do a full season of OSS unfortunately isn't there this year but this car is a long term one for me as it ticks so many boxes and is easy to look after without manufacturer support.
There is a series of videos from Auto Express about the car and driving it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYAP4CVQV4E - although it's pretty low quality as it's from 2010
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