lpitt

Hi all,

I went to the EasyTrack day at Kemble on Saturday as passenger in a friends MY98 wagon. One of the other drivers had a Clio Sport172 with replacement exhaust, uprated suspension and greenstuff pads.

He was all over us!

On the straights it ran out of puff but in the twisties he barely slowed at all and made up all the distance.

Before taking my car out on track I would like to improve the handling, currently it's:

MY98 Wagon with MY00 bumpers
17" Speedline wheels with 215/40/17 Toyo Proxes tyres
Magnex backbox and centre pipe
RAMAIR filter panel

Given a budget of £500 what would you do to my car?

Thanks a lot

Laurence

SecretAgentMan

I'm sorry to say this...but 500 won't make much difference mate, for some real difference you'll need to spend 4 times that.
We're talking about decent struts (be it the Prodrive kit or Leda, or whatever), and big bad brakes (AP/Brembo).

I'd spend it on a few drivers training courses.

A great driver in a stock scoob would stomp me in my fairly modded scoob (it has happened, and it will happen again).

/J

AP's with Pagid Blues
Leda B
Link
VF24
18" Proxes
Full Scoobysport Zorst

...and a lot more that I can't remember now.

lpitt

Thanks for this. I should have been clearer, £500 is what I have at the moment to spend. More to come later, I just want to know the best handling improvement I can do for £500 bearing in mind that four pots are out due to the speedlines.

Laurence

SecretAgentMan

The brakes will be a problem on track (if Ure on the 2-pots), try to get hold of some second hand AP's or Brembos.

I think you will have to add another hundred or so.

If that's a no-go I'd go for uprated anti roll bars from MRT (supplied by Scoobymania), along with tougher endlinks....and some decent pads for the 2-pots.

/J

ScoobyJawa

How about some Eibach springs??? Comes in at about half your 500 quid and good things been said about the handling afterwards, do a search, theres tonnes of stuff about them

HTH
Neil