1988 Peugeot 405 T16 Pikes Peak

[cacasplat3]

Hair raising....nothing but hair raising
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[VexXx Dogg]

brilliant vid.

sent shivers down my spine.

Pikes peak takes a WHOOOOLE different caliber of driver oui.
and sun in de freakin man eye too.
jeezan ages.

[eliteauto]

great vid

[Rory Phoulorie]

brilliant vid.

sent shivers down my spine.

x2

[Richard]

that is confidence in machine and ability. Wicked

[cacasplat3]

check the boost gauge.......lag??????where??????

[plex]

Nice vid but cacasplat3, how you manage to post this..I say lawd look a next peugeot hate thread..But those were the days when peugeot was flexing its muscle..

[God Bless the Black Top*]

they have some mad men 'flimming' de car on the exposed cliff sides yes...

[God Bless the Black Top*]

added value:

The most famous motorsport version of the 405, the rallying 405 Turbo 16 GR, was very different from the road-going 405. It was built in a coupe body style in mid-engine configuration, had constant four wheel drive with electronically-adjustable center differential like the 205 T16, as it was based on the same technology. Only two examples were made, one raced hill climbs and the other competed in the Paris-Dakar rally. Today, one is in the official Peugeot museum, and the other is in a private collection.

* 1988: Finnish driver Ari Vatanen set a new record in the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb (an award winning film of the drive titled Climb Dance was made by Jean Louis Mourey). Kankkunen and Piironen win the Paris-Dakar Rally in the 405 T16 GR.
* 1989: Victory in the Paris-Dakar rally by the Vatanen-Ickx team in a 405 T16 GR.
* 1990: Victory in the Paris-Dakar rally by the Vatanen-Berglund team in a 405 T16 GR.

Racing 405s much closer in specification to the road-going models were campaigned for several years in European touring car racing during the early to mid 1990s, most notably in the British Touring Car Championship and the French Supertourisme Championship. In Britain, the 405 did not achieve much success, but the car won the French series in both 1994 and 1995, in the hands of Laurent Aïello.

[cacasplat3]

^^^^great info there

plex, the vid bad.....thats why i posted.....

didnt pug race Group B rallying? will do some searching....think i remember it with the Quattro and the Lancia

[Turbo]

check the boost gauge.......lag??????where??????

dais d ting goin up pikes peak, d air is above sea level (14.7 psi), also its much more dense so is mad powa yu hgo make travelling up dere



LIFE BEGINS AFTER 20LBS OF BOOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[plex]

^^^^great info there

plex, the vid bad.....thats why i posted.....

didnt pug race Group B rallying? will do some searching....think i remember it with the Quattro and the Lancia

I not sure but let me know what infor you dig up..

[cacasplat3]

found this in wikipedia.....:

205 T16

To homologate the 205 T16 ("Turbo 16" in France) Group B rally car, Peugeot had to produce 200 road-going examples. A photograph showing the 200 cars was famously rumoured to be a fake. The road variants shared the transverse mid-engine, four-wheel drive layout of the rally car, but had much less power, at around 200 PS (147 kW/197 hp) . The T was for Turbo; the 16 stands for 16 valves, an uncommon feature at that time for turbocharged engines.[2] Outwardly similar to a normal 205, the T16 had wider wheel arches, and the whole rear section lifted up to give access to the engine. Underneath, the complex drivetrain from the rally car was kept to abide by the Group B rules. All 200 built were left-hand drive, so few reached the United Kingdom.

Peugeot Talbot Sport's factory 205 T16s under Jean Todt were the most successful cars to compete in the last two years of the World Rally Championship's Group B era, winning the 1985 and 1986 Constructors' and Drivers' titles with Timo Salonen and Juha Kankkunen respectively against such notable competition from Audi, Lancia and Ford, with an Evolution 2 model being introduced for the latter of those two seasons.

taken from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_205

[cacasplat3]

i have a DVD at home......called "too fast to race"....kind of like a documentary on group B......will check it out again when i get home.........
a good DVD if u want to learn something