Another 106 S1 Rallye.

[shiftspark]

Well after taking 18 months out of cars and selling my Clio I put a wanted add on 106rallye and after waiting ages I got offered not 1 but 2 in the same week.
One was totally standard and a modified one and as I plan on sprinting again next year and modifiying it I opted for the modded car.
So a brief spec is 79000 genuine miles with all the mots from new, 4 owners and even the letter from Peugeot advising who to call if it was to be used for competition ! it has a rebuilt ported head and inlet inc TB, Newman rally cam, 4-2-1 manifold and sprint exhaust ,rebuilt S1 gearbox with a quaife diff , lightened flywheel and mapped by Wayne Schoffield who is probably the only guy left reprogramming the standard ecu.
It produces a very healthy 130hp and revs to 8k very quickly.
It has been fully refreshed suspension wise the only upgrade is to B4 dampers.
It came with 14" wheels and some 13" Caterham wheels which have been machined to fit, the 13" wheels have 888 on but as I will be running oop north I am only allowed list 1a tyres which means a choice of 1 ! Yoko A539.
I will be running in Longtons championship combined with as many Harewood rounds as I can fit in.
The car has been hill climbed this year at Loton park and has won every event and has set good speed trap speeds as quick as the 2ltr cars so no pressure lol
Here are some pics of it that the previous owner took,cheers.

 

[Ph1 Tom]

Cool car! I'd love a Rallye. Glad to see its the S1, I prefer them to the S2.

 

[Stefan.]

Mikka hakkinen driving ;-)

Looks nice

 

[leeds_182]

Saw it on the register. Looks nice!

 

[shiftspark]

Cheers. Just added the competition letter from the dealer.

 

[shiftspark]

Did you get a fibreglass bonnet for yours leeds_182 ?

 

[Pauleds]

Just make sure you have a baffled sump if you go to Aintree!
@JohnnyE

 

[bashracing]

will probably see you at harewood

 

[shiftspark]

will probably see you at harewood

What wil you be in ?

 

[shiftspark]

Just make sure you have a baffled sump if you go to Aintree!
@JohnnyE

Yeah he said that but it was probably empty as he doesn't drive that fast lol

 

[Pauleds]

Yeah he said that but it was probably empty as he doesn't drive that fast lol

Oooh nasty! Lol

 

[JohnnyE]

Tosser

 

[shiftspark]

He loves it ! @sprintcup

 

[leeds_182]

Did you get a fibreglass bonnet for yours leeds_182 ?

No mate, cant find one! Mines hibernating at the moment.

 

[bashracing]

What wil you be in ?

the clio, it'll be the first season in it so will be a development year

 

[Pearce]

@shiftspark seen this in Shrewsbury the other day when did you buy it whoever it was they where at tesco petrol station

 

[shiftspark]

Yes that was me , I'd just picked it up and the previous owner took me to the garage.
I seem to remember a cup ?

 

[GiT]

100% lavly this.

 

[Pearce]

Yes that was me , I'd just picked it up and the previous owner took me to the garage.
I seem to remember a cup ?

Yes mate that was me looked a lovely motor

 

[shiftspark]

It is nice, thanks !, only thing it may be too nice to start chopping it up fitting a cage and satchshift

 

[bashracing]

you'll regret it, I had the cage ready to go in my s1 rallye and couldn't do it,
get rid of the c5 wheels and get the s2 steels on

 

[shiftspark]

you'll regret it, I had the cage ready to go in my s1 rallye and couldn't do it,
get rid of the c5 wheels and get the s2 steels on

Its not my daily so not a problem using it day to day if thats what you mean ? I didnt get it with the 15's its back on the 14's but I have 13" minilites for sprinting.
Cheers

 

[sprintcup]

He loves it ! @sprintcup

He loves it ! @sprintcup

Would I say that John, nice car enjoy Col.

Regards Russ...

 

[shiftspark]

Cheers Russ, you need to get your clio out at some point.

 

[sprintcup]

It'll be up for sale in Feb Col, and I'll be getting a Fiesta Mk6 150 ST, that'll be 2016.

Regards Russ

 

[JohnnyE]

Get it running nice for me Russ or I'm buying an old Ford to use next year

 

[shiftspark]

Well its been a while so a little up date..
Harewood Practice day.
It was a bright sunny day so perfect conditions to get to know the Rallye, we had 8 runs in total.
I set the tyres to F28 R26 for the 1st couple of runs and then dropped them another 2 psi which helped with grip esp in the 1st corner. It took me a few runs to start to get used to the (lack of lol) power on a bit earlier to make the diff work and stopped the odd brake lock up due to the joys of modern cars abs brakes.
My times went 76.48,75.71,73.61,74.21,73.35,155 lol,73.38 and 73.91.
So overall I am happy with the car and my immediate plans are to run 13" wheels to try and get it to pick up a little quicker out of a couple of the bends.
Heres a quick video of my 155 run.....


Fitted the 13" wheels today along with A539 Yoko's , looks like its on stilts!
I got the tyres from tyreleader who were the cheapest but no mention of it taking 8 working days for them to arrive and the local tyre fitting place charged me £60 to fit them despite quoting £12 per wheel ggrrrr...

Had a quick blast around the block and my bum dyno seems to think it picks up the revs a lot lot quicker , dont know if thats right or just because Ive not driven it since the practice day.

Hopefully it is quicker but only the time keeper can tell me for definite, cant wait for the 12th april for the 1st round at Harewood.

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[bashracing]

175/50/13?

 

[shiftspark]

175/50/13?

Yep.
are you at Harewood on the 12th ?

 

[bashracing]

yep, with those tyres you should get a bit more use out of 3rd gear,
what did that nova on practice day have under the bonnet?

 

[JohnnyE]

Colin what where your times when you done it in the Clio??

 

[shiftspark]

70's John

 

[shiftspark]

yep, with those tyres you should get a bit more use out of 3rd gear,
what did that nova on practice day have under the bonnet?

No idea but there is a video of it and it flew through the gears.

 

[shiftspark]

Found it.

 

[bashracing]

Thats a straight cut dog box, about £4k worth
too rich for me

 

[shiftspark]

Harewood 1st round
Well after the weather leading up to last sunday was great it turned pretty cold and very wet much like the Tricolour racers had.
The drive up there was crap as the 13" wheels were making the engine rev pretty high and I wasnt sure of the difference they made to the speedo readout so had to be careful through the miles of 50 mph road works.
Anyway arrived in time and passed through scruteneering ok.
Practice started at 9am and I did a 75 sec run which at the time thought I'd gone the wrong way on 13" instead of 14" wheels as I was running out of revs much earlier needing to change up then straight back down again on a couple of bends, any way onto my 1st timed run and I managed a 73.54 which I was much more pleased with as I adjusted to the new rev limits.
I also was aware of the weather as it was starting to spit with rain so a good clean run was pretty much essential as it got very cold and windy and sure enough the rain came and everyone went slower. I also had a chat with @bashracing who was out in his clio.
I think it will go another second or quicker but hopefully it will be dry all day next time out.
Anyway the 73.54 was good enough for 2nd in class to a very quick Mini Cooper S.
Heres a few pics

Yay !!

 

[JohnnyE]

At least it's says 2nd in class when I got second at Wigan it said 2nd class trying to tell me something