Hi to all

I have been wanting to start doing track days for a couple of months now and decided this year i would get it up and running. I'm wanting to build a budget track day car with about £2000 i work at a garage so i have the place and tools to do it, the only thing stoppping me at the moment is what car to use.

I was planning to strip it out, rollcage, uprated suspension and brakes, engine mods can wait till i have more experience on track.

I was thinking something ford because i'm abit of a ford fan but open to any ideas anyone might have?

Thanks in advance

 

try and look for a escort bonus or orion thats been zetec'd maybe then just strip it out could be a cheap way of getting started but im not expert someone on here will know better

 

Pug 205 GTI, or Clio, both cheap and good bang for bucks,

 

Clio 172 is pretty good out the box and you can get them for under 2k...just rip out the interior and put a cage in..job done !

 

Thats pretty much what we did, got an Escort bonus cheap,sourced mostly second hand parts,put in a 2.0L Zetec caged it, buckets and did our first track day at Brands Hatch in November very addictive cant wait for the next one, have a look in the resto room we have a build thread if your looking for ideas.........

 

Cheers for the replies people, definetly got a few ideas to go off now

 

saxo vts or xr2i? z-tec it. i like 2 use my simple stage 3 cosworth but on shark tooth wheels the brakes get a wee hot.

 

you might be able to get a mk5 zetec S for that money

strip all of it out, 1 decent bucket and a cage and you have a very capable track car!