Modifying my 406

[406loon]

After owning this car for 2 months I have done the following:-

Fitted BMC-CDA cold air induction kit, EGR pipe blanked, coupe strut brace, rear lower brace, knocked out the cat/dpf internals and applied the defap/180 remap to the ECU. I have a 306 HDi powerflex lower engine mount to go on and in the near future will be doing the brembo brake conversion.

I cant find alot of "bolt on" parts for the 406 so was wandering if there are any other bits and pieces from other Peugeots etc I can buy as an uprated addition? Eventually when funds permit I will be fitting some team dynamics 17s and an FK coilover kit but for now just looking for cheap ish modifications.

Any ideas?


Alex

[waue1978]

As far as extra performance goes, I haven't really done anything, but if you're just looking for budget bits, the non-smoker kit that replaced the ashtray on mine is worth the money. No more than £25 to buy new. JBL speakers & tweeters can be bought cheap from a breaker, but you need to solder a capacitor into the tweeters so that they don't blow. Himbigchief has a Laguna splitter for sale for £15 which is half what they go on Ebay for, or if you feel adventurous, you could tour the scrapyards for an alternative.

Apart from that, I can't think of much as my biggest mod was to upgrade the interior to the same spec as yours comes as standard.

[406loon]

I have the non smoker kit fitted and Im not sure but think my car has the JBL fancy speakers and amp. I am after the exec parcel shelf but cant find any for the mk2 at the moment as I understand the mk1 doesnt fit.

There is a carbon fibre splitter specially made for the 406 which I will order as soon as the front end is out of the body shop.

I went to my local breakers and found several coupes in there but didnt see anything that was worth having. Any other bits off coupes which are worth looking into? I have heard he rear arb on the coupe is slightly thicker than the saloon?

[waue1978]

Easy way to tell if you have JBLs is to pop the tweeters out. If the underneath is black plastic, they are the standard ones as the JBLs are silver & have JBL written on them. Tweeters just prise out with a screwdriver.

[OdinEidolon]

Did the EGR blanking improve anything?
Does it have drawbacks apart from the longer heat up time?

[sirwiggum]

I disconnected my EGR, left it hanging.

Didn't notice much different, but meant the muck wasn't being fired back in.

Cheap mods - spray the centre console silver?

Mudflaps?

The Laguna splitter.

[FarmerPug]

Did the EGR blanking improve anything?
Does it have drawbacks apart from the longer heat up time?

i paid £5 for the blanking plate on my 2.0 hdi and it didnt really make much of a difference to be brutally honest, and i plan to de blank it at the weekend with the weather getting colder i dont want to find out if it affects heat up time, a bottle of egr cleaner isnt too expensive either.

[406loon]

Blocking the EGR is supposed to have an adverse affect on cold running and it has on my car - takes longer before its running smoothly, so I dont boot it until the oil & engine temp are at optimum levels. The benefit of the engine no longer breathing its emissions outweigh that though. When I examined the EGR pipe and noticed the diameter of the pipe was mostly blocked with black sludge was quite horrified. I think really the next job to do is clean the inlet manifold out. - Not sure how big a job this is though.