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Just bought a 205GTi for trackdays. Have used the scoob until now, but am sick of the cost of insuring it and am wary of running it without cover.

Are there an good sites for 205 bits / tuning etc?

cheers,
simon.

 

http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?s=2f45a8d9ee4902175386fc75860b4f9e

 

Simon,

You beat me to it, I have been looking into getting one from Lad Motorsport. They do a full track day conversion for around £5000 but it is still road legal. What spec have you got, has it been modded?

Si.

 

Take a look on the Pug forums (ie search using their name) before you choose LAD By far the best for 205's is Skip Brown Cars.

 

http://www.peugeot-gti.net/

 

£5k just for track days??

You could build a 205 challenge car for around £3k, and spend the rest on a season's rallying.

 

LAD - hmmm.

Also try the peugeotsport club - www.peugeotsportclub.co.uk.

As above try Skip Brown in Cheshire - there are a lot of muppets out there claiming to tune 205s/

 

£5k, what a fookin rip off!
get yourself a 1.9 GTI Mi16 conversion for less than 2k and add a few bits and ure sorted!
I've just done the above..........
Sean

 

I second skip brown - they aint cheap but they are f'kin good at 205 tuning. They even built there own limited run car the 205 GTI-S - one of the fastest 205s around.

 

I thought £5K was a bit on the dear side, for that price I could get hold of a sierra cosworth and really have some fun.

[Edited by sillysi - 6/18/2003 12:40:37 PM]

 

depends what you're after - if its a pristine, upgraded, road based 205 then maybe 5K is fair (I'll leave the LAD question to one side...)

But if you're after a track day car, then you can pick up an ex stock hatch racer with decent internal kit, cage and suspension for a couple of grand, and plant an mi16 in it for another grand.

Having gone down the 205 race car route myself, its not as cheap as people tend to make out on BBS's - for example replacing a knackered caliper, shagged disks, new hoses, fluid and good pads all round - you've just spent maybe £250. Each little thing is not that expensive, but on a 14 year old car you'll have many little things to sort out which soon add up.

 

Cookiemonster,

Where do I start looking for an ex-race pug 205?

Si.

 

Sillysi,

Hows about Motorsport News ?
Out every Wednesday.

Mark
www.peugeotsport205.co.uk

 

Cheers Mark I shall take a look.

Si.

 

The stock hatch series is run by the 750mc; they've a classified section on their site:

http://www.motorsnippets.com/750mc/

BARC have a classified section too:

http://www.barc.net

These guys tend have a bunch of stuff:

http://www.rallyusedparts.co.uk/

something like a 205 challenge rally car is just as good a base for a track day car.

Hope this helps
http://www.rallyusedparts.co.uk/

 

SillySi - there are a few Stock hatch pugs floating around in the classified section of CCC mag - best look around the end of the season (last SH race is Snetterton on 19/10) - should get a good car for around 2-2.5k.

And you don't need to bother with the Mi16, cos despite the name a lot of the cars are nowhere near stock, as blueprinting, revised ECUs, headskims are all in evidence, and they are light and quick.

Mine's nearly finished - I reckon the build costs have totaled about £2,500 to get a reliable but fairly 'stock' hatch.