Engine Punk

It looks so innocent I bought this car with the intention of robbing its engine but during the drive home its fat torque curve endeared it to me and I couldn't kill it. I was looking for a replacement engine for Mighty Whitey (VT No.44) and through suddenly not having a van anymore buying a running car gave me the means of getting  said engine to the Boogie Wundaland workshop as well as the opportunity to see how it went. I did not expect this little diesel Peugeot to go quite so well. I changed my plans forthwith and bought a 1.9 turbo diesel Citroen Xantia to sacrifice instead to get my dear old van going again but that is another story. 1.7 litres of blown dieseasel The engine in Michael Morpeugeot is very similar to the 1769cc unit in my Citroen C15D but comes with a turbo and a five speed box. The character is thus transformed. Instead of a frugal slogger, this powertrain takes this little car on a romp to the top of any hill and then wants another challenge an...

Good old Lee - he'd brought some overalls just in case Well, we had great plans the other day to fit a luvverly pair of specially shortened drive shafts into the rear axle of the Candidi Provocatores Allard, refit the axle and do the Testing Trial the following weekend but it didn't work out. This was the view along the good shaft and - as you can see - it's twisted along the length of the keyway and probably wouldn't transmit power for much longer We did a trial fit of the driveshafts and turning them in the diff it sounded "funny" - funny as in odd. This is the end of the broken shaft Bolting it up locked the diff and not in a good way. A lot of head scratching followed but we were heartened by the arrival of one of our buds, Lee Peck, motorsport nutcase, engineer and all round good egg. After more scrutiny, it would appear that the newly machined driveshafts are not a matched pair and that one of them has the gears machined into it at ...