1984 Peugeot 305 GTX, mot fail

I did intend to dedicate this post to this things I've done to it so far and add lots of interesting photos of the aforementioned things... but I've just realised that most of those pics are on my other phone that's at work. The best I can do is list what I've done and throw in some random pics of it from the farm that I have on this phone.


Front brakes. I tried stripping the calipers down and getting them to work properly but they were pretty much dead. In the end I replaced them with caliper from a 306 D-turbo and replaced the orgial solid 266mm disks with some vented 305 ones that I found on ebay. I'm currently waiting on a pair of front hoses to come before I can bleed the system up and see how they work.


Wiper motor. The original one was seized solid. I tried hitting it with a hammer, but all that did was break the magnets and make it smoke. Iirc it's a 306 wiper motor on it now but I had about 3 different ones I was messing around with trying to get to fit properly. Wipers work fine now tho.

Alternator. This wasn't charging so I had it refurbished at a local automotive electronics place.

Radiator. There wasn't anything wrong with the old one but I had a new one so fitted it.

Heater matrix. This was totally shot and I can seem to find a new one. I've bypassed it for now while I hunt for one I can modify to fit.

Headlights. I've fitted 2 NOS items from eBay.

Drivers side front window mech. This had rotted out meaning the window kept dropping down. I couldn't find a new one so I had to make one.

The orgial carb was fubar so I've modified a weber 32/36 to fit. I haven't had the time to get up to it and try it yet but I can't see how it couldn't be an improvement over the solex that was on it.

Service. I've done oil, filters, plugs/leads ect. Still need to do the cam belt. It looks pretty much new with no real signs or wear but it's not a gamble I wanna take.

That's pretty much up to date. Hopefully it will be moted by the end of the month. I'm already hoarding parts for the next phase of the build which will be more interesting that this one, but that's a update for another time.

Here's some random pics of it in its current resting place.







Only just broken in 😉

Cheers I'll look into that. Been trawling through Google searching for random heater matrix measurements trying to find something that could work

The car should survive, not sure about the original engine tho.

Trying to get it on the road and reliable for the trip down to the weekender. Once that trip is out the way I wanna play a little game of "what breaks first", 250k engine or £70 Chinese turbo

definately definately engine -will add a bit of extra whizzzz before it does though lol

Had a spare 5 mins earlier so had a crack at the broken mirror. The rod that originally held it together had rotted off. As a simple fix I welded a bit of thread onto the stump and bolted the mirror housing to the holder. It no longer has the spring action if someone hits it but at least it's a functioning mirror again.