Dodgy bastards and a Peugeot 306 GTi6
June 17th 2008 22:42
I have a mate. Yes, really, and he bought himself a Peugeot 306 GTi6 recently.
It was a nice Pug, only 120k on the clock and the body in very good condition, at the price it was a bit of a bargain and the rarity (only around 50 sold in Australia) made it much more desirable.
Now, for those of you not in the know, the GTi6 is, or was the epitome of the 'hot hatch' genre depending on how you rate the Renault Clio Sport.
So my mate bought it and enjoyed a few months of motoring but eventually found the 'hot hatch' wasn't really all that hot. So he had the inspired idea to hot the Pug up and make it a truly worthy contender to the ‘hot hatch’ throne.
After much searching for a reputable Peugeot technician, the Peugeot forums in Australia led my mate to an enthusiast who liked to fiddle with Frenchies in his spare time.
Now the Frenchie fiddler was supposedly a day-time mechanic for the local Peugeot dealer and did hot Pugs on the weekends. Contact was made and visits were paid to the mechanic’s shop.
The mechanic looked over my mate’s car and said that for $5000 he would make it faster and handle better. My mate said ‘alright’ and they did the deal.
My mate felt confident that the Peugeot mehanic could wiggle his magic wand and transform his luke-warm Pug into a fire-breather.
Things to be done were:
• grind the cams
• port and polish the head
• ecu remap
• new pod air-filter
• all bushes front and rear to be replaced with Nolathane
• new Bilstein struts and lowered springs
• performance clutch and lightened flywheel.
• free dyno time to tune it.
Most of the work was done quite quickly and my mate had his new car on the road and after a few weeks of sensitive driving, started to have some fun.
Not long after receiving his car back, my mate received a nice letter from the Police asking him why he felt it necessary to run a red light, and ordering him to pay $220 for the privilage. My mate checked the date and time and found it was his mechanic friend peddling through the red.
This was, as it turns out, nothing compared to what happened next.
It was a nice Pug, only 120k on the clock and the body in very good condition, at the price it was a bit of a bargain and the rarity (only around 50 sold in Australia) made it much more desirable.
Now, for those of you not in the know, the GTi6 is, or was the epitome of the 'hot hatch' genre depending on how you rate the Renault Clio Sport.
So my mate bought it and enjoyed a few months of motoring but eventually found the 'hot hatch' wasn't really all that hot. So he had the inspired idea to hot the Pug up and make it a truly worthy contender to the ‘hot hatch’ throne.
Now the Frenchie fiddler was supposedly a day-time mechanic for the local Peugeot dealer and did hot Pugs on the weekends. Contact was made and visits were paid to the mechanic’s shop.
The mechanic looked over my mate’s car and said that for $5000 he would make it faster and handle better. My mate said ‘alright’ and they did the deal.
My mate felt confident that the Peugeot mehanic could wiggle his magic wand and transform his luke-warm Pug into a fire-breather.
Things to be done were:
• grind the cams
• port and polish the head
• ecu remap
• new pod air-filter
• all bushes front and rear to be replaced with Nolathane
• new Bilstein struts and lowered springs
• performance clutch and lightened flywheel.
• free dyno time to tune it.
Most of the work was done quite quickly and my mate had his new car on the road and after a few weeks of sensitive driving, started to have some fun.
This was, as it turns out, nothing compared to what happened next.
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