What the most moddable car for under 2k?

vanpeebles said:
theres a right way to tune any turbo car and a wrong way :p
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As an ex-R5 GTT owner I know :D

The amount of people that ran 20PSI+ on standard carb jets before blowing their head gasket was silly! Then they blame the car as being unreliable, nothing to do with running a turbo out of its efficiency range and underfuelling huh?
 
eidolon said:
As an ex-R5 GTT owner I know :D

The amount of people that ran 20PSI+ on standard carb jets before blowing their head gasket was silly! Then they blame the car as being unreliable, nothing to do with running a turbo out of its efficiency range and underfuelling huh?
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I'm so glad you said that.

I haven't owned a R5 GTT but read a bit about them and lots of people say they're unreliable, but then you find out what people have been doing to them and it's only because they get abused.

Look at Lowes Clio GTT, iirc he had no troubles with it, sold it to a boy racer, the car ends up blown up. So who's the problem? The car or the driver? :p
 
FincH said:
Look at Lowes Clio GTT, iirc he had no troubles with it, sold it to a boy racer, the car ends up blown up. So who's the problem? The car or the driver? :p
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Same happened to my GTT. I had it for 7 years running 18PSI, every day I'd hit 3 figures on the way to Uni/Work (kmph obviously officer). I did a couple of quarter miles in scorching hot weather etc. and it never gave me any problems (other than ancilliary stuff like starter motor, alternator).

Then I sold it, the new owner had it for a few months and blew the head gasket, muppet!
 
GT3 said:
**** off with this "chav" ****, it got annoying about 2 years ago. In what way does chav describe one of the finest handling hot hatches with 130 brake? Let me guess an old mini handles better :p
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it does actually because the centre of gravity is a lot lower in a mini...

in my day minis, capris and escorts were the boy racer cars, now it is the 105/206 who are driven (badly) by wayne ******. the advantage of the older cars is that it isn't all bolt on. you can choose what the torque or power curve would be, dependant on things like carb venturii diameter, camshaft profiles, exhaust back pressure without just going out and buying some unknown chip which just remaps the ecu. Older cars can be set up far better and with far less to go wrong than any modern plastic and tinfoil motor. the metal is usually stronger on older cars.

No swearing.

Otacon
 
the kit car route is probably your best route if you are looking at track days etc..

caterham 7 anyone? I used to love that lotus twincam engine.. very highly tuneable, easy to fix if you broke it.

these days you can get all sorts of kits based on all sorts of cars, not just escort based ones. I like the look of some of the jaguar based kits, using the v12 xjs engine.
 
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