i need to buy a car for a trackday,but the budget has been capped at £400!!!!! there's 8 of us who are all gonna go an buy a £400 car an track day them. it will be driven to the track and thrashed to within an inch of its life lol.and driven home... we hope., i'm thinking mr2's golf gti's saxo vts etc .. even alfa's or a saab turbo.... it doesnt have to be pretty,but solid and nippy would be a bonus any ideas???? cheers

 

i was even thinking xr2i (i dont think i'll get a rs1800i for 400) or mindeo st 24????

 

You'll need some money in the kitty to track prep it if you want it to perform in a reasonable manner imo and things break lol, budget to put some decent brake pads and and maybe a cheap suspension kit on it and hope it hasn't been fitted with ditchfinder tyres lol.
Keep to a small light car imo that you can strip bare to try and up the pace a little bit, maybe a ratty saxo vtr, although if you could possibly up the budget to 1k you see lots of cars around that mark!

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2003-CITROEN-S...item19bbd7ffd9
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997-VOLKSWAGE...item3eff405f9d
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1988-TOYOTA-CO...item20b0abb292


Spares are nice and cheap and the oil systems are pretty good unlike the cvh, the cvh can be a bit underpowered when used on the track

 

8 of you and you can only scrape together £400, come on....lol.

even £100 each would make a difference in the cars you can go for.

try and get a stonlen recovered or a damaged car off ebay,it won't matter if its a track car.

 

get a 106 gti there right lttle go karts shore u could find an un loved one cheap!

 

£400 is the limit boys.. and we cant mod em.... it all come about cos we do the occasional track day in our cars... (i got a 400bhp cossie, 2 of my mates have 400 bhp skylines, there's an e46 m3 and a few other toys) but we thought we'd try it in a car we couldnt care less about lol

 

peugeot 205 gti if you can find one cheap enough

 

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1641093.htm this might be worth a look mate

 

i'm just north of london... bit far for me.. but thanks

 

your gunna have to accept its going to be something crap, and itl be slow.
get down to a local auction, weve got one local to us and ive seen 15 year old generic rubbish go for 200 quid loads of times. nissan primera 2.0L's and old escort Si's all that sort of stuf


i like ur idea tho sounds like a laugh

 

cav gsi, clio 1.8 16v pick one up dirt cheap

 

Omega, when its fucked start trampdrifting it

 

few options

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1635625.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1636115.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1595793.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1655491.htm

some are slightly over but i'd imagine most would take an offer. i searched within 25 miles of a hearts postcode

 

The way i read the post was that they have 400 each not between them? That'd make more sense wouldn't it?

 

clio 16v would be a good one or a 205 gti

 

sounds like a fun idea 8 people with 8x £400 track slags

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...ge/7?logcode=p

i would get that power is everything

or one of these have been proven to go well on track and be very reliable

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...s/30?logcode=p

or bit of a gamble one of these

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...true?logcode=p

 

Rover 216GTi or 416GTi... either the Single Cam or Twin Cam version, both Honda engines which severely nip on. I had a stripped 216GTi Twin Cam 5dr a few years back with a big ass dog cage in the back and it was a quick car, brilliant fun and I couldn't have given two shites about it either.

But what I would say to you and your pals, ok, while you might not like to spunk lots of wonga on track prepping them properly... at least upgrade the discs and pads... dont wanna be losing brakes and running up someones pride and joy.


Cheers,
Grant