How fast can you reliably go for £5000?

[EddScott]

£5K would get you a classic impreza around 350HP and if it was a Type RA, the gearing is very low.

A decent RA would be 3.5K and 1.5K on mods. No reason it wouldn't be reliable if you don't abuse it.

Having had one at 300+ I know that it's going to top out at 120/30 due to it's gearing but it will give most things a hard time up to that speed.

If you want top speed I would have thought E36 M3? I would assume it has longer gearing than most jap stuff??

 

[Joshy]

Dont see what it offers that a 400bhp Jap thing doesnt.

There is more to going fast than... well... going fast .

 

[LiamC]

whats important is whether you smile on your way up to there

This i cannot Deny. 0-100 in a DC2 is epicly fun

 

[papercutout]

RX7 is perfectly reliable as a weekend car as long as it is serviced regularly, treated right (thrashed, but not bounced off the limiter) and looked after.

For £5K you could get one with a blown engine, rebuild it with a big street or bridge port, and then put a large cheap turbo on and have it mapped. Will go VERY well, handle VERY well, but do 5-10mpg!

 

[Jamous]

£5k would get you a reasonable 400bhp cossie saph that would touch 180ish.....

I love the Cossie thing and have to say they are becoming retro cool, something most Jap cars have still to reach.
But Cosworth and reliable don't really go together, I owned one for 4 years and likewise many mates had them and all had similar stories.
I stand by my offering of an E36 M3.

 

[Meridian]

£5K would get you a classic impreza around 350HP

With prices as they currently are, £5k will buy you a bugeye STI with fairly serious mods. Its a bit more than mine is worth for instance. And the whatever the looks, the handling of the newages is much better than the classics.


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[Dureth]

How fast reliably for £5K? Go buy yourself a bike (anything 1000cc and sporty) and leave for dead (in the true sense of the word) anything mentioned in this thread so far.

If pushed for a car I'd be saying a modified Impreza or Evo is your best bet. For a different feel entirely go for an MR2 turbo with some work.

 

[Lashout_UK]

I got 0-60 in 5.4 seconds and a top speed of 161mph for £5k. Would go a lot faster with some work, as well. Bulletproof mechanicals with sensible running costs, to boot.

No competition to a bike, though!

 

[Muffin`]

any examples about for 5k atm?

 

[Fr0dders]

C4 corvette you say ?

Step right this way sir.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2636691.htm

Sadly you appear to have missed this manual one :

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2492989.htm

 

[GT3]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2529218.htm

Serious spec for the cash, infact seems a giveaway price!

 

[No3ntry]

Suppose this thread could be an excuse for me to post this. I know it's £8000 and it has a red lip but apart from that I think it looks awesome!

http://pistonheads.com/sales/2582181.htm

A problem with buying modified cars is, do you trust the previous owner?

LOVE THIS!

oh how I wish I had about £10k now to buy and run this for a year

 

[Lashout_UK]

C4 corvette you say ?

Step right this way sir.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2636691.htm

Sadly you appear to have missed this manual one :

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2492989.htm

You'd have to dig a little deeper and get into the mags and classifieds to find the right car - both of those are L98 engined ones which are slower (you need '92 and onwards for the more potent LT1). Not a bad starting point, though. I almost bought the red six-speed, the auto red one in the first link isn't a very nice example

This six speeder is an L98 too - and could do with a little tidying - but you could get it for 5k:

http://www.corvetteclub.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=10665

It's even got a TPIS throttle body, panel filter, and a few other bits to liven it up a little.....

L98's are easier to tune as well, in some instances - they are a "conventional" smallblock whereas the LT1 is not, so parts are cheaper and there's more choice.

 

[Muffin`]

That is so ****in cool

 

[peterattheboro]

Hmmmmmm Corvette... not sure if I could live with that interior though

 

[InvaderGIR]

the question was how fast can you go for £5k and i don't know jap cars besides drifters(and these are usually insane tuning prices lol)?

i'm taking that literally lol as £5k in bike terms would be 190mph+(early busa and turbo it.... easy 200... ) but in car terms it'd be a modded car and cossie motors are the strongest and most tuneable engines of the last 30 years (in my eyes at least....)

From what I saw of this one...

Reliability was very much an issue. It was highly tuned and went wrong veryoften...at that RR it was blowing smoke out of the turbo. :/

 

[RedvGreen]

Just curious really.

I think it's probably going to be something jap like a Skyline, Supra, Evo or Impreza but how reliable are these when you are hitting big power?

Come on Peter, Boro has enough chavvy Imprezas and Evos kicking around already! Get some class... !!!!!!

 

[peterattheboro]

Guilty pleasure

I LOVE Evos though.. a blonde chavvy lass near me has a black VII and the pair of them give me the horn

 

[Disco Boy]

MX-5 with a big turbo and enough change for a new set of clippers

 

[Rich1988]

*BIASSSS ALERT*

S14's are good for reliable big(ish) power for example mines running 280bhp, (soon to be 300 after my new injectors) and will do reliably all day long, the engines are strong and the T28 generally reliable, rwd pretty good looking and I can get 30mpg if I drive without hoofing it.

also they are reasonably cheap, you can get one in decent nick (standard) for about 2k and it will cost you about 1/2k depending on how you do it to get to 300bhp.