So what I'm I looking for so I can get a good one...do I go 1.6 or 1.9..?

And it might be getting stripped and caged and either turbo charged or super charged

Let's talk people...!

 

1.9 all the way, so much better than a 1.6, 1.9 gti was a quick car in its day.

 

1.9's feel rapid . Although they do have the build quality of a crisp packet so that just adds to the danger factor

 

Love the 1.9s had a drive in one not so long ago, it was a right hoot!

 

Matt a mate of mine is selling a 205 mi16 on carbs ect and he aint that far from you

 

used to have the 309 gti,loved it but the girlfreind couldnt stand it

 

1.9 matey

lol at build qaulity of a crisp packet ...... so was the 306 gti6 but makes it far more interesting knowing at high speed if you bin it you are going to die unless its caged up

 

go for the 1.6. Much more fun. Shorter gear ratio's, stiffer suspension etc. Much better all rounder than the 1.9.
Plus there is not a huge amount of difference performance wise.

 

Never went in a 1.6, but when the engine fell out of my swift GTI, i went to a 1.9GTI loved it !

do it.

 

Fuck the 205 Matt , it's all about the 16v gte in white aswell,
At least cosworth had something to do with it

 

lol ive had both 1.9 are far better try topping out a 1.6 they were miles slower

 

Never driven one but I've been in a friend of a friend's mi16 with ITB's and turbo'd, circa 270bhp. Needless to say, that was quite scary

 

Personally I'd go 1.9 with the 1.6 g/box it brings them to life.

 

1.9 with 1.6 box is what you want. 1.9 is a lot better car rear discs etc.

 

I want something that handles lol....

 

I had the 1.6 box on an MI 16 engine and it went very well.

Miami Blue rocks!

 

I'm wanting to do some track slagging..

I'm going to buy one very soon and start stripping/prep.

 

I had the 309 1.9 gti and loved it! I remember as a young lad being used to xr3i's and picking up the pug for Ł400 at a local garage, I drove down the road, turned round and paid the man, it felt like a rocket lol!

 

My brother and I both had Mi16 205s, both had engine dramas eventually after years of proper abuse and neglect My brother's spun a shell at the Ring, and mine did the same at Donington (the same day my Cossie also broke it's gearbox again at Donington )

Think sadly the Mi16 lump is prone to it.

Great cars, really handle well. My car had the Mi16 box, my brother's I think was the 1.6, as his shot off up through the gears better than mine, but I could get my speedo off the end of the clock nicely

He did loads of work to his, but I think his best mod was the Quaife ATB diff he fitted, especially if track work is your plan.

Pics:

2 tow trucks waiting to collect my Cossie and 205 from National Day 06:



You know you've got an unreliable car when you have to get towed 550 miles home from the Ring...... by a Cossie My ropey Cossie dragging my brother's 205 home. That was a good fast run to catch the ferry, I think we may have nudged 90+



Mine got well used in a local sprint race on a go kart track:





Thought I had loads of good pics of the Pugs racing together, but can't find them. We used to drive round bumper to bumper at Combe and the marshalls kept telling us off for being too close

Great fun little cars!

 

Been looking at these lately aswell. Mate had an mi16 track car few years ago, handled lovely.

Few tasty ones on ebay at mo aswell. Spiky has a 205 gti and swears the GTI6 engine is better than mi16

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRACK-205-...item20c59a0089

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205-gti6-o...item337602ec0c

 

Cheers si as you know me and my mate have been smashing out 205 diesels allover the place up here and even they handle well on thin tyres...came through a round a bout the other day @70 all 4 tyres howling... My mate in his blue one said it looked like you was going to lose it but it felt great.

 

Now sell me your 3dr cocka...

FINE CHANCE

 

Favourite car colour ever. Love Miami Blue.

 

Don't think I'll ever sell it mate...proper love it to much...(am sad)...

I need a 205 GTi in my life...

 

Im just at medowhall mat,parked oposite a 205 gti all stripped out and caged looks the nuts

 

Sweet mate I bloody need one.

 

Get one bought mate

Did you not used to have a track 106?

 

i've had a 309 gti, owned a 205 gti but never drove it, driven plenty of my mates though, and mi16's.
Get a gti-6'd one


thats my mates 1.8 16v contraption.

 

Thats sweet mate.

 

that 1.8 rally one fairly flies wong

 

Just do it! get one bought mate

 

Yeah, its 165 bhp so picks its feet up, on a quaife box with i think 5:1 final.

 

i had a 205 1.6 gti was a great car i liked it better than my rs turbo for the fun factor it stuck to the road so well my friend had a 205 gti6 with 1.6gti box it went like lightning pulled like a train i would love another my self

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205-gti6-o...#ht_1173wt_932

Looks fun

 

you need a 1.9 gti turbo technics dimma, was one on pistonheads not long back for 4k! i loved my old 205's easy one of the best handling fwd cars ive ever driven used to love entering roundabouts at 80mph getting lift off oversteer, yanking the handbrake then flooring out of the roundabout sideways with smoke bellowing off the front wheels! never ever spun it either even tho id had it at 90 degrees a few times lol
how the fuck i didnt lose my license in one of my 205's i dont know proper hooligans car

 

It does mate... But after something a lot cleaner.


Yup the speed I can enter and exit round abouts even in my shitty diesel is awesome... Proper tools

 

This sort of hooliganism makes me want one even more

 

205 derv's are immense, mine was ridiculously good, better than any gti i have driven!

 

Put a spanner in the works.

205 STDT! I think once I got a new car and settled with it I may get one for the weekend.
1.8TD with 80bhp. Full GTi kit, has a disgusting cream interior so you would have to fit a GTi one

BUT! They share the same engine mounts as the 1.9D, 1.9TD and 2.1TD found in other pugs. So you can imagine the potention with a little fettling!

 

I had a topaz blue mint 205 with mi16 ....4 disc conversion it was pukka like a go cart ....serious let off oversteer though lol