405 Petrol Turbo??

rossnunn · Post by **rossnunn** » 27 Dec 2004, 00:26

Really? Any more info?

PowerLee · Post by **PowerLee** » 27 Dec 2004, 00:29

You mean the Peugeot 405 T16?
Left hand drive, 4 wheel drive, Hydraulic self leveling rear suspension & turbo charged!
Click the link http://homepage.ntlworld.com/agmpcrepai ... screen.htm
Then click on the 405 pages, Then scroll down & click the T16 link!

Stuart McB · Post by **Stuart McB** » 27 Dec 2004, 01:50

Had one once as a curtesy car when my company Pug 309 GlXi was being serviced early 1992. It was snowing and after a few hours I twigged it was 4X4. Up to then I thouight that this car was great no slipping in the snow as I drove through the Shropshire country side, hadn't noticed the badging as it was an estate. Only had it for 2 days but at 50mph you didn't feel speed humps. Well put together and drove great, bright red with loads of space.

VisaGTi16v · Post by **VisaGTi16v** » 27 Dec 2004, 05:41

Surely that was just a 4wd 405, probably a 1.9 8v at most as the mi16 4x4 was only saloon. Their were only about 8 T16's sold in the uk, most were france and the netherlands.
Not 405 but I think the only other recent PSA turbo petrol is the 2.0 8v 150bhp unit that was in the 406 sri turbo, xm and xantia. Based on the 123bhp unit that was in the mk2 zx volcane with a veryyyyyyy low pressure turbo

PowerLee · Post by **PowerLee** » 27 Dec 2004, 16:17

All 405 T16s where left hand drive!

Stuart McB · Post by **Stuart McB** » 27 Dec 2004, 16:54

This estate was defo right hand drive. All I can say is didn't notice any special badges but on the the dash was a light that ocasionaly came on when the car started to slip but this could have been ABS I supose. The interior was a mix of leather and velour with chrome / silver bits. Nice and tidy went like stink. Saying that I did have a Pug 309 at the time so even my dads metro seemed fast.

VisaGTi16v · Post by **VisaGTi16v** » 27 Dec 2004, 17:15

a 125bhp 1.9 8v then, same engine as in the 405 sri.
The T16 was nice but couldnt match the sierra cosworth which is probably why they didnt bother selling it over here. It also had the heavier iron lump

PowerLee · Post by **PowerLee** » 27 Dec 2004, 19:05

The T16 couldnt be made into right hand drive because the turbo & exhaust manifold got in the way of where the steering coloum needed to go.
It wasnt worth Peugeot spending money on a solution to this problem either.
All T16s where saloons too.

VisaGTi16v · Post by **VisaGTi16v** » 27 Dec 2004, 23:07

Some cars are best left LHD like the delta integrale, wouldnt touch a rhd converted one! Saying that, probably wont ever have the money to touch a decent lhd evo one either heh!

np · Post by np » 31 Dec 2004, 01:02

I got a good car book for xmas.In there,it has a Pug 205 T16.It says they built just over 200 models for the public.They had 4wd,1.8 16v turbo,200bhp.0-60 in 5.8 sec,130mph plus.Looks pretty much like a GTI,but with wider vented arches,& what looks like 1.6 Gti 14" alloys(in white).

VisaGTi16v · Post by **VisaGTi16v** » 31 Dec 2004, 04:46

Yep, they were built to abide by the homologation rules for Group B world rallying which stated that to enter the championship you had to produce at least 200 road legal variants of the model although obviosuly not identical, but based on to a certain extent. The full on works 205 T16's were putting out 500 odd bhp by the end of the group B days.
Ie for me, the holy grails of Visa's is the 4wd Mille Piste of which they only made 220 in total, all intended for rallying but were also all road spec to start with. The last 20 were the Evo ones putting out 145bhp from their by then 1434cc engines. Saw one for sale recently but £8K is out of my reach. A non Evo can be picked up for 4-5K. One day maybe...

np · Post by np » 31 Dec 2004, 05:22

I presume that "145bhp" is from a turbo?

VisaGTi16v · Post by **VisaGTi16v** » 31 Dec 2004, 15:00

nope just reasonbly tuned normally aspirated. The works Visa Chrono's and Trophee's (the fwd ones) were pushing out 150bhp by the end of thier lives from thier 1299cc engines.