NigeEss
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| posted on 23/1/14 at 10:13 PM |
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Potential track car ???
Been offered a fully operational 2002 Corsa fitted with a 1.8 sri engine for £500.
Thought it would be a base for a half decent track car, or am I missing something ?
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Davey D
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| posted on 24/1/14 at 11:10 AM |
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Should be a fun little car to throw around on the track, especially for £500. Rip out anything that isn't required to make it light as possible.
Are they the 140bhp VVT engine like in the astra, or the earlier non VVT around 120bhp model?
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loggyboy
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| posted on 24/1/14 at 11:46 AM |
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1.8 baby valvers arent epecially quick, (120ish bhp) quite expensive to tax (early ones are £260), corsa chassis is hardly considered dynamic.
Whilst its a good price, there would certainly be better options out there.
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twybrow
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| posted on 24/1/14 at 01:23 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
1.8 baby valvers arent epecially quick, (120ish bhp) quite expensive to tax (early ones are £260), corsa chassis is hardly considered dynamic.
Whilst its a good price, there would certainly be better options out there.
I would agree. Any car can be a complete hoot on track, but if you to buy/build a dedicated track car, a Corsa seems like the wrong place to start...
I would be looking for a tatty Clio 172 or MX5 - both will be more fun on track in standard form than any Corsa of that age!
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morcus
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| posted on 24/1/14 at 04:09 PM |
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Google Corsa V6 or pick up any issue of Performance vauxhall.
Someone I used to work with had one and that really was a hoot though not exactly very good at steering as he found to his cost.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 24/1/14 at 04:30 PM |
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Im currently looking at track cars as the father in law wants a small simple project. The budget is likely to be about £1k, giving us a little spare
after that for things like brakes and tyres.
I have a Clio 172 seems to be hold which was the obvious choice but without really scraping the bottom of the barrel its hard to find one for under
£1200.
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