what would you buy for a fast road car?

[JD]

if you were to spend the money on creating a track **** type road car, what would you buy?

i'm talking 172 ph1, 172 ph2, 172 cup, 182, 197 etc?

jamie

 

[Šįk]

Easy, 172 cup defo!

 

[-J-]

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[Saner]

Out of the box a cup,

If i were creating one, a ph1 172

 

[Mike@MJCycles.com]

Surely it depends on Budget?
a standard 197 price is more than enough to make an Evo eater 172?

 

[Šįk]

true, if you can afford a 197 you could easly buy a faster car for track usage...

 

[Ali]

if money was no object R27 is the best RS made to date!

 

[Alan]

if money was no object R27 is the best RS made to date!

Hi.

 

[Ali]

in the right hands...Watch this.

R27 - KW's
Zorst, IK, TB's, Strip the back seats and you've got a weapon.

 

[Šįk]

woud rather buy an Mazda 3 MPS and do all the tuning shabang to that tbh... you can pick them up for around 9k these days.. would b quicker..

 

[Gally]

Facts are... it's quicker round a track than a focus rs.
If a little underpowered in the straights.

 

[Šįk]

is that yours? looks nice...

would still rather get an mps n tune that up tho, i recon that would still be faster..

 

[Gally]

No not mine. And mps... are you 40?

 

[Šįk]

lol its all part of the fun, especially when it would easy pull away from you... kinda a sleeper.. suprise bye bye..

 

[Christopher]

DC2R.

Same price as a Ph1 172 nowadays. You already have a race-bred engine and LSD too. You can cane it day in, day out... and it'll thank you for it.

No brainer.

 

[Ali]

ph1 172 are going for 2k now.
DC2's are still more are they not.

 

[JoedotwasT5phy]

EK9 for me - supercharge the little basket!!

 

[Christopher]

£3k will get you into a track-ready car. I saw a '96 JDM go for £2.5k over on PH last month! 90k miles.

Easily worth the extra £500-£1000 over a Ph1!

 

[Christopher]

EK9 for me - supercharge the little basket!!

Hero.

But you're looking at £5k+

Then supercharger kits are £2k+

Kinda defeats the object of a cheap track toy.

 

[Ali]

If money was no object CSR or Radical plz...Or is a JDM Civic better weeguy? I-m sure you'll have some rationale.

 

[Christopher]

F*ck it. I'll have a NSX-R then.

 

[Ali]

Jesus. I bet your wallpaper is a honda isn't it! Radical and CSR are mentioned and you go for a sodding Honda FFS!

 

[Christopher]

Reliant Kitten TBH.

Nah, i'd have an R500 i think.

 

[Ali]

Reliant Kitten TBH.

Nah, i'd have an R500 i think.

Fcukin N00B! CSR win's!

 

[FlameR]

on a low ish budget, a stripped out 206 GTI mi16 with TBs
if not, then as AR said, a 197 with coilies, TBs, exhaust etc

 

[Christopher]

Balls! R500 pwns it!

I'm talking about the new one.

If i was being old skool, i'd have a JPE. Just for the noise!

 

[Ali]

Balls! R500 pwns it!

I'm talking about the new one.

If i was being old skool, i'd have a JPE. Just for the noise!

JPE....Sure you don't mean JPS? Or we on a diff tracks here. Old boy had one 78' i think.

CSR is a road car/track car....I.e you don't need to wear a helmet to drive it!

 

[Blarno]

JPE....Sure you don't mean JPS? Or we on a diff tracks here. Old boy had one 78' i think.

CSR is a road car/track car....I.e you don't need to wear a helmet to drive it!

Caterham 7 JPE, running a 250bhp Vauxhall C20XE engine. Set the record for quickest production 0-60 in 1992, 3.9s, IIRC.

 

[Ali]

Ah thought you may of been talking about the original John Players Specials...

 

[ukaskew]

Metro, tbh...

http://www.talonsportscars.com/100r.php

At a charity trackday a few years back it's fair to say that most people found this waaaaay more fun than the genuinely rapid stuff also available.

 

[Christopher]

Caterham 7 JPE, running a 250bhp Vauxhall C20XE engine. Set the record for quickest production 0-60 in 1992, 3.9s, IIRC.

Bingo!

 

[Blarno]

Metro, tbh...

http://www.talonsportscars.com/100r.php

At a charity trackday a few years back it's fair to say that most people found this waaaaay more fun than the genuinely rapid stuff also available.

A mate of mine has a Metro running a Honda 1.6 VTEC unit, 170 bhp, stripped caged and on slicks. It is stupid fast.

Ran rings around some serious machinery at Oulton Park back in February.

 

[mini_nick]

in the right hands...Watch this.

R27 - KW's
Zorst, IK, TB's, Strip the back seats and you've got a weapon.

here here - even on standard suspension I reckon it would be a tool!

I miss my R27

 

[Henry]

how much do the 'ordinary' Caterhams go for? must be able to get something interesting for 182 money? or an Elise. wouldn't buy a saloon car if it were a primarily a plaything anyway

i'd love a R300 - you'd have some sort of chance of controlling it, whereas the R500 strikes me as a bit of a hero/nutter car. the idea of pranging one just doesn't bear imagining either - it's like being sat in a bath tub:dead:

 

[ukaskew]

how much do the 'ordinary' Caterhams go for?

Doesn't appear to be much around under £9k. Plenty of variants that are much cheaper though, Westfields around £5-6k for example.

 

[Craig.D]

if money was no object R27 is the best RS made to date!

I think the R26R is the best RS made to date

ya dick!!!:quiet: :rasp:

 

[Dave Hester]

if money was no object R27 is the best RS made to date!

Bar the Williams and trophy

 

[Craig.D]

Bar the Williams and trophy

could not live with the R26R time round the ring

 

[2 live]

granted. but then there is a fukkin massive price diff. sub 5 grand...ud be hard pushed to beat the williams tbh.

 

[Craig.D]

Bar the Williams and trophy

he said if money no option thats why i said R26R