right new to this and to cut a long story short i have a 5door escort work car but i have a new job opposite my house now, so was wondering should it be made to a track car as i have nothing better for it or would keeping it as a run around and getting something else to start building track? opinions and reasons all appreciated.

 

Hello and welcome!!


Pictures would be very nice as everyone likes a pic!!!

Oh dont forget pictures

 

haha okay i will try and figure out how to get pics off my camer to laptop but for the time being its just a standard mk6 1.6 zetec 5door no rust just dont know what to do with the cars future lol

 

A 1.6 zetec escort, will be a crap track car IMO
you will get bored within a lap as it just isn't fast enough in a straight line and it will corner like a barge..
you also need to factor in the cost of track days, there just not cheap anymore!

steve

 

where would be a good but also cheap starting point as ive just changed over jobs but its night work so could do with something for a tinker through the day

 

As painful as it is to do so. The cheapest way to get into a decent track car is to buy French.

Clio sports are amazingly good as standard
205 1.9 gti
Clio willams
Saxo VTS
106 GTI

All fantastic handleing cars for not alot of money. They all have a respectable amount of go in them too.

 

cheers mike i like the list good help well i will have a quick shop around over the next few weeks and see if i like some of them im thinking the 205 at the minuite but ill get straight on the clio case as youve given them a good rating thanks

 

My clio cost me 1200quid.

It get abused everywhere it goes, has done 5 track days this year.

it was on 120,000 miles.

And i addore it!

The funny thing was, the first thing i did was strip it out and i got Ł300 back for the leather seats!

 

300 back is a decent bonus im also thinking insurance though i have 1 years no claims so is their anything smaller that wont sting me so much that i could just make slightly quicker myself like a 106 xsi or would that be too slow

 

Yeh the escort will be poor or less you have a few hundred quid to play with. You could sort the suspension out and stick a 2ltr zetec in it.

 

i was looking at some bits think i may get a 106xsi purley because i cant afford to big an engine (INSURANCE) and it looks like with a few bits here and their it could corner a treat