hey cool Rich - same car as me now! knew you were looking for one but just noticed your avatar and thought id see if you had posted pics.
Bought mine in march - pretty similar - mines a 98, black, 48000 miles (54000 now) full history etc. Only problem really was a few dents and expected a few issues as had not been driven for 2 years before I bought it
Anyway I bought it due to the missus having a baby so needed something cheap for a while - had intended keeping it and using as a track car when Claire goes back to work and buying another R26 for normal use. Started off with a few basic mods but they soon went out of control as usual with me! Admittedly though have had a fair few problems with it as expected but didnt think they would be such a nightmare to diagnose.
firstly it kept dropping to 3 cylinders - no-one could work it out - cost me nearly £2000 in the end before I had a guess at dodgy injectors and luckily I was right! so thats ok now. Replaced coil pack, injectors, genuine plugs, map sensor, throttle body and all associated sensors, 2 x lambda sensors the list went on and on
now It has a tendancy to stall every now again - which is really annoying when dropping a gear going into a car park or similar - you loose the power steering so its a bit dangerous - going to Peugeot this morning to rpice some parts but again its gonna be guess work as no-one is sure whats wrong!
The brakes also felt crap on mine - really really weak - anyway had the hoses replaced with braided and some new fluid and wow what a difference. Have since put some greenstuff pads on the front too and is 100% better than when I bought it - going for some 306 gti 6 brakes soon though and some new rears with GS pads. The brembos from a 406 wont fit with the wheels I have
anyway the engine has had the usuals -
ITG Maxogen (without airbox),
Full prospeed exhaust and decat (bought a pugsport first but was crap - fell apart after 3 weeks and sounded s**t imo),
decat,
raceland manifold,
Samco coolant kit,
Samco Induction kit,
Sparco Strut Brace,
Powerflex lower engine mount,
GE quickshift,
Polished Rockers,
Few Polished covers - battery, ECU etc
replaced all screws, washers and nuts with Stainless equivalents
and just cleaned and generally tidied it up
engine currently looks like this - give or take a mod or 2
suspension I replaced with Bilstein Sprintline shocks and Eibach sportline springs and am massively impressed with them - rides brilliantly and hadles superb - although back end is still a little wobbly so gonna get a 25mm anti roll bar to stiffen it up a bit
Have done bits and pieces outside - the wheels are 306 s16 15inchers but reconned in gloss black powdercoat. Had half the car resprayed as had been keyed down one side - problem now is that half look far better than the other side! so will look at sorting that next year. New rear lights, side repeaters, french plates, debaged rear, updated rear wiper, etc etc
havent really got any good pics of the outside - difficult with black wheels but youll get the idea
have had some dash parts flocked, fitted some nice pedal covers and mats and a couple of alcantara bits (gear gator etc) but soon to be stripped with some buckets
Is a cool car - better than I was expecting - still have the same plans though although tempted with a 197 in white but well see.
Shall come and have a look at it next spring when the shows start again
