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Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: March 19th, 2011, 8:25 am
by kpsig
Daveyboy wrote:I can't take any credit for the car, all the work was done prior to my buying it, as for the causes of the engine failiure, I suspect a number of reasons contributed to the eventual outcome.
Mainly (my fault entirely) running the car for a two week period on the base map that came with the bodies, this would've been very fuel rich and this is evidenced by the very fuelly smell in the sump on strip down. Obviously I realise now that this was a very silly thing to do, but we learn from our mistakes, at the time I knew very very little about engines, I certainly won't be repeating that error though.
Another issue is that I was running an oil cooler that was'nt big enough to keep my oil temps down, it was a 13 row Mocal unit but driven hard the oil temp would regularly reach 120 degrees, again, I now know this is a seriously excessive temperature at which to expect oil to retain any kind of film strength or pressure. The oil itself was a fully synthetic 15-40wt oil I purchased from Halfords, again, probably not the best choice of oil for an engine that gets used hard, but hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Hope this clears up your question.
Yes, thanks!
15w 40 out of my experience is not that "fit" for your modified engine due to the fact that at high oil temperatures it looses its protective qualities really fast. A proper 15w 50 could be more reliable. A good oil cooler could help, but the fact that your mixture was way too rich actually destroyed your oil very very fast.
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: March 19th, 2011, 11:18 am
by Daveyboy
At the time the engine was pretty much standard, except fot the throttle bodies and exhaust sytem all the internals were stock. This time around though I am intending to use Millers 15-50 in conjunction with a Laminova cooler, a baffled sump and 4 pint Accusump system. Oil issues should no longer be a worry this time.
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: March 27th, 2011, 5:52 pm
by Daveyboy
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: April 6th, 2011, 10:44 am
by Daveyboy
I blew my budget that was set aside for some decent rods when 13 new and used wet tyres and 8 wheels came up for sale at the right money, I now have more wheels than Hertz rent-a-car and still no engine....
Theres always next month I guess.
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 1:24 pm
by Daveyboy
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 2:02 pm
by Guy Croft
FINALLY!
AT LAST SOMEONE BOTHERING TO SEAM-WELD THEIR CAR.
WELL DONE JIM!
G
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 5:55 pm
by Daveyboy
Guy Croft wrote:FINALLY!
AT LAST SOMEONE BOTHERING TO SEAM-WELD THEIR CAR.
WELL DONE JIM!
G
It's the worlds crapiest job! Peugeot use the stickiest seam sealer/underseal known to man and it has to be meticulously removed from anything you wish to weld, otherwise it spits and pops molten metal at you, all very enjoyable, I'm so glad I started it. (Sarcasm)
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 5:57 pm
by Guy Croft
Keep it up Jim, you only need 16,000 more hits and you'll have as many as Miro.
G
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 6:03 pm
by Daveyboy
Thanks Guy, but to be honest I'm getting a little bored of working on it I just want to drive it yesterday! But I'm cursed with a desire to do things properly, and as a result I just end up finding more and more jobs to do. Personaly I blame 'that book' of yours, ignorance was bliss...
I reckon that many views would be a tall order on this predominantly Fiat/Lancia site, plus Miro's car is stunning, a nice finished race car would be enough for me.
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 6:08 pm
by Guy Croft
yes, Jim, know what you mean but it will be the better & safer car for it and Lord knows plenty rush this.
GC
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 6:15 pm
by Daveyboy
I know it will be worth it in the long run, but until that day it gets trailered off to the mappers and I do my first shake down runs, it's just a gargantuan time/money pit. I can see why so many projects stay as just that and never come to fruition, but the end is tantalisingly close now. I'm itching to hear it fire up for the first time, the aim is for it to be finished by the end of the year...
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 8:07 pm
by Daveyboy
I came home this evening to find I had had a delivery of Aeroquip style hose ends, still got a few more plumbing bits to get but I'll leave the hose ordering until the engine itself is actually back in and I can measure up exactly whats needed. The braided hose pictured is some -6 stuff I already had.
Figuring out all the BSP, NPT, Metric and JIC combinations and sizes has given me a bit of a headache but I'm over the worst of it now.
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: June 29th, 2011, 10:50 pm
by Daveyboy
Guy Croft wrote:Keep it up Jim, you only need 16,000 more hits and you'll have as many as Miro.
G
I've had 60,353 hits on the 306gti6.com site, so actually it's Miro who has his work cut out, but who's counting? :D
I know who will have the better car at the end of it though, and it won't be wearing a Peugeot badge.
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: July 4th, 2011, 4:46 pm
by Daveyboy
My shiny new Saenz rods arrived today, and I am also expecting a package this week from Think Automotive with my sandwich plate and Laminova cooler and a few fittings. Once my uprated oil pump chain arrives (Uprated as the standard chains have roller bushes with a seam, which we have found opens up and causes the chain to fail on high RPM Peugeot engines, so I sourced a high quality seamless bush chain from a German firm called IWIS) I can proceed with a dry build. I'm very much looking forward to this as I have lots of fabrication jobs that require the engine in the car for reference, such as making the inlet and exhaust manifolds.
Re: My Peugeot 306 Rallye project
Posted: July 6th, 2011, 10:05 pm
by Daveyboy
Right, progress report.
Made a little headway tonight on the sump baffle kit, space is really tight so I've had to revise my initial plan slightly (Make it up as I go along ;) ) This involved cutting the sides off the box and welding on some new ones that fitted the shape of the sump base a little better, this will allow me much more room for a nice free flowing trap door arrangement to bring oil to the pickup on righthanders. I have a plan for how to get it to work for lefthanders but you will have to wait and see that. Anyway, here are a few shots of my contraption.
The oil pump is screwed to the wooden baton to get it to sit at the right height more or less for the mock-up.
There is a protrusion on the oil pump body just in the wrong place that fouled the box, so I had to let in a corner piece.
Fitted much better after...
There is also a dogleg section that drops away on the sump floor, this created quite a gap in the corner of the box which could allow too much oil to escape away from the pickup under cornering, so I covered it up with the addition of this plate. It has a drain hole right in the corner so it won't hold any cruddy oil when the time comes to change it.
Still have to make dividers and gates etc. but it's coming along, what with that and this Accusump I think oil issues should be the least of my worries. Paranoid much? I think so!
Lastly, here are the new rods, sure you've all seen them before but I think they are worth a second, third and fourth look.
They must be about 2/3 the weight of a standard rod and the finish is outstanding :)