106 GTI Track Project

[benlane]

Good to speak to you the other day Ben

It was good to speak to you to dude! You will probably be hearing a bit more of me and my bank details :rasp:

 

[Budgie]

Where in Surrey you guys based?

 

[benlane]

Where in Surrey you guys based?

Camberley area

 

[Nickson]

Threads like this make me miss my old GTi, will be keeping an eye on this!!
Car looks like its going to be awesome mate, keep it up!

 

[JamieG]

It was good to speak to you to dude! You will probably be hearing a bit more of me and my bank details :rasp:

By all means mate, you've got my number

 

[benlane]

Reasonable amount done today, update with pictures tomorrow!

 

[d4h182]

i love the 106 gti. good work i will keep my eye on this project

 

[Pryor]

Update:

Thankfully a rain free weekend, alot of layers and tea to keep warm.

So the progress

• Suspension cleaned up, painted and fitted. Didnt go overly mad but we will be changing to a coilover setup at some point in the future.
• New drop links fitted
• Front ARB fitted with polybushes
• Steering column re fitted
• fuel tank re fitted and lines connected
• hand brake cables re fitted

Sorted out all the parts that need to be sand blastered, so need to find somewhere cheap this week. Then on the powercoaters.

So here it is, been on axle stands for a good 2 months!!

and then this happened...

Inside needed a clean as it was getting filthy and messy loom

Started tidying the loom

Rollcage getting in the way so small bracket made

Washed inside, nightmare to keep white clean :dapprove:

Fuel tank re fitted

Test fitting dash & bucket

and back tucked away!

Now rubber lined p clips have been ordered and meters of trunking to clean up the rest of loom. Polycarb windows should hopefully be here this week.

 

[jinli]

[FONT=&quot]The cage looks awesome. I am also thinking of putting one like that in my car. I am sure that it will provide excellent protection. The rods seem to have got good thickness. But there is going to be a huge problem. It will be extremely difficult for someone to get in or get out of this car in the case of an accident or fire.[/FONT]

 

[WTFRage360]

Loving this project so far mate

 

[Lukas1]

[FONT=&quot]The cage looks awesome. I am also thinking of putting one like that in my car. I am sure that it will provide excellent protection. The rods seem to have got good thickness. But there is going to be a huge problem. It will be extremely difficult for someone to get in or get out of this car in the case of an accident or fire.[/FONT]

It will probably save his life too if he was in an accident as they are made out of paperbags, would be more stupid to not have a full body cage in it if he is serious about tracking it...

Looks really good bud, keep it up, I know how annoying it can be working on these things in the crap weather

 

[benlane]

The P clips and Trunking arrived today.





Ben

 

[Pryor]

Tidied up inside loom and secured down with rubber lined steel P clips. Not much else achieved. Hopefully next weekend a proper update. Anyway both really pleased with the outcome of the loom!

Excuse the sh*t picture, thats a blackberry for you...

 

[Pryor]

Bit of an update

The long awaited box turned up!

Got up early to do some sand blasting on all rusty brackets/exhuast shields. Came out really well concidering how rusty it all was, forgot to take pictures :dapprove:

Ready for power coating

Etch primed

Moved on to try and fit the polycarbonate rear windows and what a pain! We could not get the sikaflex sealant to bond and hold it down with the bend of frame and cant get anything round it hold the seal! Any tips? We dont want to be drilling holes... picked up some g clamps, so will give that a crack tomorrow.

Anyway fronts in and rear which were easier enough

 

[Clio Rep]

nice job mate

 

[chrispy.clio]

Great work mate, cars looking great.

 

[Englebert]

Nice work! Wish i had the talent to rip a car apart and rebuild it again!

 

[Pryor]

Update: lot

Stupidly keep forgetting to take before pictures but plenty of afters :dapprove:

So...load of rain this weekend we got round to doing the rear arches, using horrible waxoil, its ALL over now though :approve:

Cleaned and found some rust that we have now taken care of bottom left, very lucky again it was not bad at all.

Otherside

Coat of waxoil applied to both sides

Underneath shot, few places missed so it was touched up!

Oddersey 25 race battery arrived which is going to relocated behind passenger seat once wiring arrives

Cut off switch arrived

Finally managed to bond rear windows after ALOT of effort!

G-clamps
Weighted hammer broom
more brooms
Duck tape
Wood

Result!

Bodykit now back on with new fittings as it was hanging off before, starting to look like a car again!

15" team dynamic 1.2 cropped up on the forums with r888 so these were snapped up, still in need for another set of 15" something. Both look brand new..

Also picked up some Hi Spec 4 Pots with 283mm discs although not sure what pads we are going for, thinking about pagids?

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Loving the dedication to this!

 

[Pryor]

Been on a bit of a spending spree, quite a lot of it has not arrived yet.

Still to arrive:

Lifeline removable boss
OMP wheel
Uprated driveshafts as ours are ruined
Supersprint manifold
Load of OE parts

Brembo OE Rear discs

Schroth Profi III-5 5 Points 3" Harness

Exhaust shield plastic clips, old ones were ruined

Accelerator Kit

Cabin fuel lines, managed to snap the ends on the originals :dapprove:

Rear calipers time for a freshen up

Brake servo resprayed

Looking to get this finished by mid april, changed our minds on the supercharger! It's now been sold. More interested in track time, so going to leave the engine standard and start a new turbo build on another engine while we enjoy this for the moment.

Will be doing a UK trackday end of april/may and a trackday at the ring in july with DN

 

[Pryor]

More parts arrived...

We have gone for yellow stuff pads all around

4 port 23mm non ABS master cylinder

Lifeline removable boss

Uprated driveshafts

OMP leather wheel

OMP Boss

 

[Pryor]

Carbon stereo & heater blank

Battery kill switch fitted

2x Corbeau Pro series buckets - which now means the proper recaro has to go, really dont want to changed but not a fan of mix matched seats and cant find another one for sh*t!

4x Corbeau side mounts

Hopefully going to have this car finished by end of the month! :slap:

 

[ben89]

Looking tidy mate! Any more progress?

Is this on 106owners?

 

[Pryor]

Yep more progress, wont be updated till next weekend though.

Nope its not on 106owners

 

[Pryor]

Well......... we pretty much finished the car this weekend, although couldn’t turn the key because still missing a few parts.

Anyway hopefully can get it MOT by next week if all goes to plan :dapprove:

Not many pictures of the process of the last few weeks as camera charger had disappeared!

Pictures in random order!

That’s it, if it starts then the ring is being booked and will be doing the July track day with DN

 

[sambo]

Fantastic project !!! 5 STARS

 

[Jimbo_M]

Top project dude and some great work going into it, i'll defo keep an eye out for more updates

 

[JackJack]

Quality project can't believe i haven't seen it before good read and i don't normally like 106s/saxos.

 

[Narf]

oh! i miss my 106... shouldnt be saying this on a clio forum though!

 

[Pryor]

Fantastic project !!! 5 STARS

hahaha

Top project dude and some great work going into it, i'll defo keep an eye out for more updates

:approve:

Quality project can't believe i haven't seen it before good read and i don't normally like 106s/saxos.

Thanks

Its finally getting there now, just booked DN trackday in July so only 10 weeks to really get this car setup and a trackday before norshleeef

 

[Pryor]

So its finally running, no video but it did fire up first time. Making a wierd noise which starts after 5 minutes we cant locate as it sounds like its coming from everywhere. Its not overheating.



Went to bleed the rear brakes, first one the bleed nipple snapped straight off. So we have drilled it out just awaiting a new bleed nipple and the otherside is just ruined so again awaiting new bleed nipple.

Quite frustrating as ideally wanted to go for a MOT this weekend so hopefully now next weekend if all goes to plan.

Tom

 

[Pryor]

Also hazzard lights and indicators not working, its clicking at the relay.

Im no electrician so have no idea, all I can say is it worked when I removed it, now it does not. Everything looks earthed and everything else is working.

 

[Pryor]

Had not that much time recently to update the progress.

But the car managed two full trackdays at the Nurburgring!

Couple videos

Me


Ben

 

[alex-avfc]

Class...I love the sound they make as they hit 5k!

 

[Fastfishracing]

Wow, very impressive the machinery you fly past at the ring!

I was considering a 172 cup for a road / track day toy but you have me thinking of a 106 now lol!

 

[alex-avfc]

That noise could be cambelt tensioners...my mates VTS made a similar noise until he got the belts done.