Budget track cars !
 

To cut a long story short, I am pondering taking on a small track project when I sell my motorbike this spring as most of my mates have sold theirs and i now have a baby so time to settle down lol.

I have had various decent cars in the past and my current steed's arent too shabby but not ideal for taking out on track as they need to stay reliable and practical.

I am looking at a budget of about £1 - 1.5k so I can put some money back into the bank. So... lets see what you guys have put together on a tight budget, happy to see links to other websites etc aswell as i am open to all ideas. :thumb:

Cheers all, Dave

gti6 bags of room to increase power with a s/c kit from the standard 167 up to 250 and onto 400 with forged internals. bags of bang for your buck . easy to work on and cheapish to fix. ace handling

I'm tempted with a 205 GTi... seems you can get a fair bit out of 'em for very little.

Mate has a Carolla saloon, few mods like stripped out, bucket seat, lowered etc, owes him just over £300 so far, and that includes buying the car ;]

deffo 205 gti :thumb:

the advantages of the wider track on the 306 far outway the extra couple of hundred quid the gti6 will cost over the 205. Thing is most of the quick 205 gti track cars are runnng gti6 engines or mi 16 engines, some have even adapted the wider beam to fit on a 205 maxi style body. Lets face it the 1.9 engine is not quick anymore unless equiped with throttle bodies. Standard they had 125hp sooped up you may get 150ish, the gti6 engine has 167 standard and with a bit of trickery can get up to the dizzy heights of 200 with out to much hardship

we bought this from the bay early last year, complete with slicks and wets and its a championship winner in its day, we got the lot for under £500 but haven't had time it use it yet :(
its got about 140 brake, bored out to 1.8 on twin40 downdraughts and on a vw golf gearbox, full leda coilovers, we've bought vented discs and calipers from a 2.0 mg to upgrade from the solid discs its got at the mo!

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clio 16 valver very cheap to buy and really only needs to be lightened for track which isn't hard for a renault as there made of plastic and rust.....;) heres mine still in low hundreds for budget

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205 gti 1.9 or renault clio 16v seem good track choices and are cheap

stripped ford ka with an rs turbo or zetec engine they are absolute flyers.

That's very retro cool. :norty:

OLD SKOOL

Dont know if it's still for sale but there was a Clio for sale on Pistonhead with Twin R5 GTT engines in:norty: Was around £1500 IIRC:wonder:

Clio 16v or a 172s are getting kinda cheap now ;)

The previous owner had some video's of it embarasing much bigger powered cars around the track!!!! These were regularly timed doing sub 1 minute laps around brands
Yeah, pair that with the turbo'd orion 1600E we've got and we've got a couple of fun retro's kicking about

Get yourself a Honda CRX V-tec fella!

My brother had one as his track car, price was around 1200.. was an awesome little car, handled like a go kart!

That's the route i'd take.

does the brick add extra bhp :D

thats not a brick thats the oil catch can!!

2.0 8V/16V Corsa... 8V being the cheaper option for sourcing engine and fitting kit (mounts etc.)

Can all be done for £600-700 inc buying car ;)

thinking about a pug gti-6 or a MG ZR (gets ready for ducking bullets) for the easy strip and track aspects, as much as i would like to buy something for an engine swap it just aint practicle with the time i have to commit to this project?

Pug 205 gti is the way to go, I'm in the middle of building a 205 gti6 now and for the availability of spare parts and other odd's and sod's, you cant go wrong.

Small, light weight and seriously quick car.

A Pic of my last one :

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...cooby/pug3.jpg

Before:
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During:
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After:
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Like I said, just over £300, including buying the car :D

Thats a real barging ;)

That maestro is kinda cool, I remember the MG turbo's being quite mental:eek:

my mate is about to sell 2 rally/track prepped scoobies, dont know the exact spec of each so would not like to start talking crap tbh. i do know they are going to be around 3k and 5k but all ready to go, if anyone is intrested give me a pm and i will see what i can sort/find out for you. Lee.