JackH wrote:


"Timo Geusch" wrote in message
... Elder
writes:

What would be good? For me, either something jap or something
silly.

Doesn't have to be too fast, nothing too exotic parts cost wise.
My thoughts were
Tatty Mk1 MR2 with ticket.

This one if you can find one that's not terminally rusty.

I seem to remember you finding them a tad too tame, for track work...

Yes, but at least you're not at stupid speed in order to drive it at
10/10.

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Elder wrote:
What would be good? For me, either something jap or something silly.

Doesn't have to be too fast, nothing too exotic parts cost wise.

I really like RWD, but for some reason he wants a FWD blue oval.

Sierra, as a compromise? Can sort the handling out pretty easily.

In article , Elder
says...

I really like RWD, but for some reason he wants a FWD blue oval.

Capri 2.8i. Plenty of them getting hooned around on track days and
£1500 will get you one well up to it.

If he's hellbent on FWD, MK2 Fiesta and put a Zetec engine in. Its a
very easy conversion and requires next to sod all modification.
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In article , ks says...
Elder wrote:
What would be good? For me, either something jap or something silly.

Doesn't have to be too fast, nothing too exotic parts cost wise.

I really like RWD, but for some reason he wants a FWD blue oval.

Sierra, as a compromise? Can sort the handling out pretty easily.

I had thought of that. Might work ok.
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Doki wrote:

I really like RWD, but for some reason he wants a FWD blue oval.

Something someone else has prepped

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/volvo-340-drift-drifter-tramp-drift-rwd-track-day_W0QQitemZ150354565019QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomo biles_UK?hash=item2301d4979b&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14& _trkparms=65%3A7|66%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1| 293%3A1|294%3A50

Job done!

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"Elder" wrote in message
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What would be good? For me, either something jap or something silly.

Doesn't have to be too fast, nothing too exotic parts cost wise.
My thoughts were
Tatty Mk1 MR2 with ticket.
Volvo 340 1.7 (usually immaculate due to one giffer owner rwd not as
slow as reckoned, pretty hard to break).
Volvo 740 turbo saloon (cheap because it isn't an estate, will take a
manual boost controller for some extra oomph, rwd).
My brother who fancies going halves suggestion was an Escort SI.
Nothing else, just an Escort SI. No other car on the planet comes close
to providing the performance, parts cost and handling per quid than an
Escort SI in his world and he would be happy to trailer it behind his
Shogun. Or maybe a Nova at a push. He has no imagination.

This would be something that would have almost everything inside that
isn't needed for the MOT stripped out plus a couple of speakers and
radio for the times we drive there rather than tow, and a pair of bucket
seats. trackmods would be a fresh pair of shocks and some lower stiffer
springs, plus one box removed from the system and replaced with a length
of pipe, plus a hollowed cat if it pre-92, and a homebrew cold air
intake. Simple mods to free up breather and body roll.

I really like RWD, but for some reason he wants a FWD blue oval.


Hmm. Okay so trying to think of this from another perspective, if I
wanted a track day car to learn about how the stuff I usually drove
handled and went under stress, then something front wheel drive with a
turbocharger could suit.

Perhaps that's why?

Is the Escort SI turbocharged, then? :-P


I see what you mean, but I meant, stuff *I* usually drive...

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"Elder" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

Hmm. Okay so trying to think of this from another perspective, if I
wanted
a track day car to learn about how the stuff I usually drove handled and
went under stress, then something front wheel drive with a turbocharger
could suit.

Perhaps that's why?

He drives a Shogun, his missus has a 1.4 focus.

Neither is particularly like a late model Escort.


This is true, apart from the Escort shares front wheel drive and the
badge...

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In article , ks says...
Doki wrote:

I really like RWD, but for some reason he wants a FWD blue oval.

Something someone else has prepped

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/volvo-340-drift-drifter-tramp-drift-rwd-track-day_W0QQitemZ150354565019QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomo biles_UK?hash=item2301d4979b&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14& _trkparms=65%3A7|66%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1| 293%3A1|294%3A50

Job done!


Seen that. I love how the auction ends the day after the MOT expires.
Loverly.
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Conor wrote:

In article , Elder
says...

I really like RWD, but for some reason he wants a FWD blue oval.

Capri 2.8i.

Aha! Going for the predictable as "night to follow day" ticket, eh?

In article ,
says...
I seem to remember you finding them a tad too tame, for track work...

Yes, but at least you're not at stupid speed in order to drive it at
10/10.

Which was why one of my criteria was not too fast.

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