Richy888

Hey I have been a lurker here for a while but now it is time to break out and join all you forum posters. My name is Richard Stevens and I'm 17 years old my daily run around is a 898cc vauxhall corsa 5door haha.

I introduce to you my 1300 Track day Ka. It is technically my first car and my first outing with it was Ford Fair at 17:20 what an amazing session the car that we had spent nearly a year building. My latest outing was at Trax in the wonderfully wet condtions of silverstone. It was hard to enjoy it when the whole car was not suited to the conditions but building this is a big learning curve as both me and my dad have never really been overly mechnical. Well I will provide with the pictures upto the current time:

Standard trim last summer:


The exhaust fell off one day when mum was driving so after ordering a mongoose replacement it was fitted

comparing to a standard ka exhaust:



And then it had gaz coilovers all round which helped massively with conering and then a BMC CDA filter and that was the end of it on the road so it went into the garage:







New wheels in vauxhall fitment to widen up the track and due to wanting oz super t's




Magnecore leads:



Wheels fitted:




Sportka bumpers were bought to fit the wheels in better:




Sparco roll cage going to be welded in:



All fitted including seat/harness and arches sprayed:









Air intake + front arch fitted + randoms:








Fire extinguisher fitted:





Interior bits added:






All finished exterior pics leading upto fordfair:








Hispec R114 caliper with 280 2-piece disc and DS3000 pads:







After fordfair pictures:






Rev counter fitted:



Trax pictures:






Thanks for looking and I'll add as things are added as I have just struck a sponsership deal and plan to race in the DMN next year

Rich

Cragrat

iTrader: (4)

nice little number that,good luck mate

Twins

iTrader: (18)

Well done looks great

Rab

Thats bloody brilliant!!!!!! Top stuff from a 17 year old!!

olek

looks cool, only need more engine-power now!

keep up the good work!

Richie.

iTrader: (5)

Awsome wee car


Are the door cards from Performance Trim ? ?

Are you on 6J rims ?

MAD EVO 4

very nice mate

Reminds me of my old red track ka

wess-rs

Looks nice

Richy888

They are got them off ebay.

The wheels are 6.5 mate.

Cheers for all the comments. It has more to come and it is going to get alot better over the winter.

vibrating_cake

=) i was on with you at trax, cool car!.

Brian

iTrader: (2)

Looks stunning mate


Brian

Dal_

iTrader: (2)

Loved your car at FF08 mate - looked superb on and off the track:









Looks like you've done an epic job with it.

Richy888

Cheers

I loved driving the car at ford fair at it was only 10 days after passing my driving test! I loved every second of that the car was superb! it handled nice and never felt like it was out of control it stopped so quick! It was amazing! Driving it at Trax was the complete oposite we had new tyres big mistake and the brakes were too good for their own good and locked on the slightest touch but I am off to snetterton a week on thursday and am praying for the dry!!

Love the pics btw always nice to see someone else snap your car

Dal_

iTrader: (2)

Can always spot when a car has been well prepared. Worth photographing when it looks cool.

You were doing fine on the track seeing as you'd only had your licence 10 days!

vibrating_cake

p.s. where did you get the trax track pics from?? was a friend taking them?
i wanna see if they got a few snaps of mine? =)

Charlie Chalk

iTrader: (1)

Aweome little car mate, well impressed

Once insurance allows, Get a better engine in!

SteveH

Quality that is mate, credit to ya!

Richy888

It's not insured as I don't run the car on the road It is a trailor queen haha But the plan is too keep the engine as a 13000 so I can race it if it was just a track toy it would have something better in it

VC - My girlfriend took them under the press bib and I'll hunt through her photos tonight and see if i can find any if i do I'll PM you about it.

Ricky rs

That is 1 fat little KA mate, i saw ya going round ford fair aswell

Bet its a fun little car on track even with a 1300 in it

adam151082

WOOOOW, i want one! real credit to ya bud. looks lush, nice and cheap to run as well.

theburns1

real nice car there mate. love anything track spec, 1300 or not! who fitted your cage? bet it was a fair old price?

Zetecfiesta

that looks absolutly mint mate!

Richy888

My dad's mate welded the cage in for us We done all the work the car hasn't been out of our hands for any of it. We helped out with fitting the profiling the ends and removing the paint from the inside of the car to weld to.

It is fun even if it is a 1300 tbh first car I didn't want a flame spitting monster sitting in the car as I would of had it sideways and being inexperienced could of probably lost it and maybe the car. I'm fine with what power the car has now

1 week and 2 days till the next track day Cheers for the comments guys

Sjon

love it

nice to see you on here 2 Rich

Sticky.

iTrader: (4)

Cool car mate

Luca

iTrader: (2)

Now that i Like

Richy888

A lil update just before I go to snetterton Thursday

It's going to be on http://www.msvlive.tv throughout the day.

Well my small update is simply a sponsorship one that dynasty spa's are now a sponsor along with GAZ and powerflex and there may be more on the cards

anyway this post is useless without the pictures:





A few pictures of the inside showing the carbon fibre door cards and the inside sprayed up after the sound proofing had been removed:





oh and just one of the whole engine bay as i didn't post one up before:

Rab

Stunning little car mate!!! So well built

woolford

very tidy looking car and i bet very fun to drive

jonnyrsturbo

looks awesome that mate, you should be well pleased!

Rs Adz

looks lie a quality lie car keep up tyhe good work mate

Allyc85

Thats awesome fair play to ya

Richy888

Cheers guys need to know what all the codes are for the lil animated dudes are.

Just booked up a track day at Brands for the 13th November it is a performance ford day i believe. should be good open pit lane too so allows me to do as little or as much as i like.

Richy888

Well Thursday 5am set off to have a beautiful day at Snetterton. Well organised track day and better than any normal day it was for charity and they d a max of 15 cars on track so loads of room where as if you do an msv day they can let out up 36!! The weather was stunning all day and done over 100miles of track time. No problems at all which is the best bit.

Anyway pictures..

at 7am










onto the track:











































There is video of my first 3 runs which is me just getting to feel with the car and track and unfortunately no video of me when really pushing in the last session Posted up later. Enjoy.

prwoodford

I saw this car at Ford Fair and it really captured my imagination - absolutely stunning!!

kaking1982

iTrader: (3)

i like the look of this i used to have a sport ka i did a lot to that got rid of it wish i hadnt now would of made an awesome track car. i brought a 2wd cosworth sapphire instead wish i hadnt lol

Richy888

I like my track car so much that I went out and bought a sport haha Alot better than my 1.0corsa I will have some following update now the winter is coming A bit more power is on the list

and more sponsors

RS16iDale

very cool car mate

gra1984

loving this little motor mate, see you going round brands hatch last thursday. what is involved in fitting the sportka bumpers, thinking about getting my other half a ka and sticking some wheels and sportka kit on. is it sportka lamps, wings and bumpers??

jmeBDC

Hey Richard. One of the guys that had the broken down ZS sharing the garage with you @ Brands last Thursday here. Car looked great in the flesh, im going to keep my eye on your progress.


lol I only signed up to follow your progress See you again soon. Jamie