Trackday Car .....

Sam

Sam

Sam

Soldato
Joined
12 Jan 2003
Posts
14,486
Location
Surrey
So after finding a decent BMW 330CD and arranging to collect it the seller decided to sell it on to someone else as he just couldent wait the extra few days for me :rolleyes:

Luckily for me my circumstances in the last week have changed dramatically and it looks like im now getting a company car of some sort therefor no real need to spend 11k + on a 330CD ....

Sooo ive decided that i want to buy a fun car that i can use on the odd weekend but mostly for trackdays, trips to the ring etc ... My budget is around £5000 and the car must have the basic bits done allready ( Some decent seats, some decent rubber and some decent suspension ) and if possible a cage of some sort would be nice. I dont want to buy a car and then spend 1000s on mods so i can lose it all a year later (i would rather someone else did this for me :p)

ive been looking at Clio 172 cups, ive allways had a strange itch for one evan tho i had a trophy for a year. There seem to be one or two with a few nice track day orientated mods around on pistonheads :)

Your suggestions with links if possible would be much appreciated ;)

Regards

Sam
 
Should get a decent FI MX5 for that, get around 200bhp/ton as well.

OR, A Woodsport MR2 Mk1.5 - again at the 200bhp/ton category, that is much fun around a track.

Unless you're running in the very high speed tracks like Silverston, then handling and acceleration are king, not top speed. For £5k,you could buy a sorted '5 with suspension and decent brakes. Get used to it on decent rubbr before having it turbo'd or supercharged. Something like a Clio is going to get you to the limit fairly quickly, leaving you nowhere to go,
 
you just missed out on this

*** No Hotlinking ***

it was £4k with only 100 miles on the engine 30k on the chasis. 400whp and all the suspention mods etc, even had a half cage, buckets, harness's gauges.

FC's are where its at for track toys
 
Yea something like that would be fine, particually if your going to 'ring it, i would hate to drive across europe in a little tin box.

Get yourself on some more driver training days with a well balanced RWD car, aka 944 / E36.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom