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205 cti dimma Restoration

james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Sept 13, 2015 20:43:35 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Thought I'd start up a thread for the rebuild of my dimma 205 cti. Dimma UK only built 8 of the cti's and there's only about 3 others left now and they don't get used much. I bought this in August 2014 it a was in a right state and has needed a lot of small patches all the way around it. Its taken a long time to get it to paint 2 months after buying it I broke my wrist then it took me a while to get back into work g on it and it was January by the time I started working on it again and had it ready for paint by June but then got let down by the person who was meant to paint it and had to find someone else to paint it. Here it is as I picked it up, it came with loads and loads of parts so I had to rent a van to fit it all in, it was also 5 hours away and had no suspension or hubs fitted so I had to take tools and parts to get it moving. ^ once home with the rest of my 205s! Initially it didn't look to bad but the engine was seized, the side skirts had been cut off to repair rot on the sills and one section of sill had been cut out, the sills on a cti are complete different shape to the hard tops and you can't get them new I eventually ended up buying a complete running but rotten cti to use for the sill and I will end up using the engine and various other parts. These are just a few of the areas that needed welding I don't seem to have many decent photos. Once the welding was done I treated all of the floor pans on the inside and painted them with epoxy mastic, I also painted the underside with epoxy mastic then stonechipped it all after grinding off all the damaged factory under seal. After this I stripped everything off the shell that I could to leave it as a bare rolling shell and it finally went for paint on the 21st of August.


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lincolndanny Part of things Posts: 139	205 cti dimma Restoration lincolndanny @lincolndanny
	Sept 13, 2015 20:50:10 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I never knew they did Dimma CTI's! I'm going to keep an eye on this, very interested to see what one looks like complete! Has it got a full set of the unique Dimma Alloys?
	1971 Ford Escort 1997 Peugeot 106 GTI 1998 Peugeot 106 GTI 2014 Ford Fiesta Zetec S

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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Sept 13, 2015 21:00:30 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Soon after buying the car I messaged terry who use to build these to see if he knew the car and he sent me a photo of how it looked when it was first built, I knew then that I wanted to get it back close to the original colour and i managed to find some of the original colour on the front bumper under the black and then yellow paint that it had been since. Here is the original picture and then the pictures of it painted.


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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Sept 13, 2015 21:08:05 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I have got a set of dimma 1.9 style wheels but they need new outer dishes them the centres refurbing and new tyres so for now I will use the image 5 spokes that came with it.


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956ring Part of things Lurking Posts: 36	205 cti dimma Restoration 956ring @956ring
	Sept 13, 2015 23:11:55 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Good luck with the rebuild. Looks awesome! How much did you pick it up for? And is the silver one a genuine Dimma also?


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omegod Part of things Posts: 166	205 cti dimma Restoration omegod @omegod
	Sept 14, 2015 11:06:29 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I recall a red CTI being for sale in Merseyside on ebay last year, was very very rough and went for buttons


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loudandproud205 Posted a lot Boost leak Posts: 1,047	205 cti dimma Restoration loudandproud205 @loudandproud205
	Sept 14, 2015 13:02:16 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I much prefer the Image split 5s over the OE styled split rims. If my Ducati didn't rinse me of every penny I would love to have fitted them on my 205 getting rid of the huge spacers I currently have.
	Some days you just need to take a grinder to an inanimate object, just to make your day a tiny bit better!!

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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Sept 17, 2015 4:39:42 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I paid just over 2k for this more than I've spent on any other car lol, standard 205 cti's are worth nothing compared to gti's I paid £250 for a comete running cti with 84.000 miles and complete history that I will use for parts on the dimma. My silver one wasn't genuine but was a very good spec, I sold it last December. What 205 is yours Loudandproud? Not many people prefer the image splits to the standard 1.9 style wheels.


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loudandproud205 Posted a lot Boost leak Posts: 1,047	205 cti dimma Restoration loudandproud205 @loudandproud205
	Sept 22, 2015 12:28:17 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Mine started life as a standard 1.6 GTI, I never liked the Dimma front and rear bumpers so I bought the car and made it my own much to the dislike of many purists, but its my car so I built it for me to enjoy. That was over a decade ago now it sits a shadow of its former self while I whittle my money away on other projects awaiting me to start on it again. I can say that the effort that goes in to fitting the kit is way more than the effort that went to making it the panel fit is terrible and when you spend £1000 extra buying genuine Dimma over replica parts I did expect it to work better. If I was ever doing one again I'd get one with the kit already fitted. I don't really like the standard wheels I hated the standard 1.6 wheels the 1.9s were a bit better but still wasn't appealing to me and never understood why they commanded such premiums. To me modifying was about personal taste so when you have 50 cars all the same its not really about beng different lol. Compermotive did make some really nice lattice style wheels but never offered them in Peugeot PCD thinking it was on VW fans than wanted that style back then
	Some days you just need to take a grinder to an inanimate object, just to make your day a tiny bit better!!

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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Jan 10, 2016 22:00:57 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I am terrible at taking pictures while I work and at updating project threads, here's some of what I've been doing I got quite a lot done over Christmas. I have fitted a mohair roof and all the glass except the front door Windows also most Windows seals are fitted I just need to find some good scraper seals which are hard to come by for ctis as the shrink badly I have got the complete wiring loom out of my donor car and fitted along with the sound deadening under the carpet this usually Is very damp and crumbled in most 205s it wasn't to bad in the donor car so I used some flash banding roofing stuff to heat up and apply to the top of the sound deadening to keep it together. Before After I got the engine pulled out of the donor and into the garage where I gave it s good clean up along with a new cambelt, water pump, clutch and replaced the sump as the original was very rusty. Once I had got all the brackets that needed to go into the engine bay I got the brake lines in the engine bay done and got the engine in. Engine in the donor car Brackets, heat shields and brake lines in I am now waiting for some power steering hoses to arrive the I can get the inlet manifold fitted and start getting things into place in the engine bay.


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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Jan 17, 2016 18:25:46 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Power steering hose arrived during the week so I spent a couple of hours fitting for t and starting to get things mounted in the engine bay.


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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Jan 25, 2016 21:39:22 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Few more jobs done, after picking up some steel fuel line from Peugeot I got the fuel lines run and connected up in the engine bay at the same time I ran the rear brake lines under the car and above the tank then got the tank on and all connected up. Then I've turned to the interior and getting electrics working again for the first time in many many years I got all the looms joined up and chucked a battery on and it seems like everything should work ? won't be long before it will run. â€‹ â€‹


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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Mar 13, 2016 11:22:37 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Thinking of using these wheels Front window regulators are now fitted so all glass is now in along with the electric Windows working. Had a problem with the fuse for the central locking,radio and interior light blowing it turned out I had plugged the switch for the glovebox light into the fuse board rather than the switch, so now all the wiring is fitted correctly and working I've now got the glovebox and some of the dash refitted I've fitted a toad alarm aswell. I've also got my donor cti nearly ready to go to scrap everything I might need is now removed from it so that can go to scrap and I can get my old cj back which I will be using all the suspension from, it's got brand new gas coilovers Motaquip 1.9 wishbones , gti6 front brakes and rear discs all with new discs and pads so will be nice and quick to bolt up to the dimma.


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MK2VR6 Posted a lot Mk2 Golf GTi 90 Spec Posts: 3,328	205 cti dimma Restoration MK2VR6 @wafers
	Mar 13, 2016 11:29:42 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Looks fantastic - epic resto. Please tell me you're going with deep dished alloys as per original, to fill those wide arches though?!


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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Mar 13, 2016 14:31:06 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Cheers, I'll be using these wheels.


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MK2VR6 Posted a lot Mk2 Golf GTi 90 Spec Posts: 3,328	205 cti dimma Restoration MK2VR6 @wafers
	Mar 13, 2016 15:31:50 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Excellent choice in keeping with the Dimma kit!


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simes Part of things Posts: 734	205 cti dimma Restoration simes @simes
	Mar 13, 2016 19:21:49 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Excellent work.
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james205 Part of things Posts: 21	205 cti dimma Restoration james205 @james205
	Jun 19, 2016 18:55:29 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Very nearly ready for mot now.


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79cord Posted a lot Posts: 2,608	205 cti dimma Restoration 79cord @79cord
	Jun 20, 2016 12:10:24 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Looking deservedly spectacular. Still surprised it was originally painted such a 'conservative' colour with the wild kit when even the once original? white may have had more impact.. if not so good at showing off the quality workmanship required to get such a nice finish.
	'79 HondaAccord, '89 CR-X SiR,'88 Integra '81 Prelude, '74 Z360H/top, '65 S600 '75 BetaCoupe, '73 Cortina, '65 Cortina forum.retro-rides.org/thread/36869/1979-accord-prelude-integra-civics or www.cardomain.com/id/79cord

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bmstew Part of things Posts: 276	205 cti dimma Restoration bmstew @bmstew
	Jun 20, 2016 20:07:51 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	As above- love this. Proper late 80's/ early 90's cool.
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