Nobody imagines that “hget a custom car” ends up becoming a Peugeot 205 V16 ready to compete in any rally event. Yes, you read that right, V16. This is the mechanics that for a season equipped this mechanical monstrosity owned by the French pilot and engineer, Vincent Foucart.
And he used tenths because, subsequently, his Peugeot 205 V16 has been a walking laboratory where Foucart himself has been equipping other different engines, but all of them outside the conventional in a car of this type. In any case, today we want to review the latest evolutions of this legendary 205, focusing on the one that led it to be assembled. four engines assembled from Yamaha YZF600 Thundercat.
Peugeot 205 V16: French design with a Japanese heart
First of all, comment that in most articles that refer to Vincent Foucart’s Peugeot 205 V16, they talk about 4 CBR600 engines, something that is not correct. This preparation used 4 engines assembled together and with a displacement reduced to 2,000 cc of Yamaha origin, specifically YZF600. Basically, because its technical configuration was more favorable than that of the Honda four-cylinder.
That said, as expected, this Peugeot 205 V16 had a completely customized 6-speed manual gearbox. In addition, the drive became rear-wheel drive and a suspension developed around the project was installed.
The whole is dominated by a tubular frame that is responsible for housing both the mechanical and dynamic parts, suitably reinforced and adapted to the anchors of the body of the car itself.
As has been mentioned in some specialized media, this mechanical monstrosity came to yield a power around 450 hpfigure in charge of propelling the barely 1,200 kilograms in running order It is estimated that this Peugeot 205 V16 weighed when it was equipped with the aforementioned Yamaha YZF600 Thundercat engines. But this is not all since, subsequently, Foucart has changed his mechanical configuration several times.
Peugeot 205 V16: BMW and Mazda engines to continue the party
After this modification, Vincent Foucart continued to devise new ways to power his Peugeot 205 V16. Firstly, mounting the well-known V12 engine that BMW equipped in some of its models in the 90s. Later, it opted for a radical change by installing a 20B engine with no less than three rotors of Mazda origin, in the central rear position characteristic of the car. .
As we can see, the mind of this intrepid Frenchman does not stop thinking, and we do not know what he could end up surprising us with next. It is clear that that Peugeot 205 V16 was a real bomb, but the subsequent preparations carried out on it are simply incredible.
It’s a pleasure to meet people and stories for whom the automotive world continues to be a garden of dreams that they can make come true at some point.
