Good Track/Daily Driver?
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ROAD_DOGG33J
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Dudes: How much are you putting to the wheels? How much boost are you running? Can she run 12's?Absolutely not.
It's always funny though when a guy gets something like a Terminator Cobra in the hope he'll manage to impress the ladies, but all he gets is a bunch of dudes jocking his car.
Girls: So, is it fast?
Danoff
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Agreed that the subframe issue is the only real issue. VANOs is overblown. I wouldn't track an E46 M3 though, it's really quite good at being a road car.
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If you can find a clean one it's not a bad idea, it's a bit on the heavier side and not quite as agile as say, a Golf GTi or Civic Si, but you'll have gobs of power on demand.
A Cooper S might also be worth considering, but expect costly repairs if things start to break, because it's a BMW.
A Cooper S might also be worth considering, but expect costly repairs if things start to break, because it's a BMW.
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Just buy an 80s C4 in good shape. You might even be fairly competitive with it, depending on just what you mean by "track". Run it until it blows up. Then sell it and buy another one. 50,000 could very well net you more than ten of them, and they aren't exactly expensive to keep running anyway. In the meantime, just keep driving whatever you are driving.
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If you want something practical and good looking you can use for track days and weekends, go for a relatively powerful Japanese car, unless your budget allows something more substantial. An Evo, WRX, Supra, RX-7, GT86, GT-R, S2000, NSX, etc. If you've got very little experience I'd strongly suggest starting with something with less power and more handling-oriented. Keep with that for a year (there's a reason MX-5's/Miata's are so popular to track cars...) then flick it off for something more powerful. Oh, and RWD is obviously more fun but also much easier to burn through tyres on the regular because of that fun factor.
$50k is a pretty massive track car budget, fyi. My daily is nearly track ready, and it only cost me £3k...
$50k is a pretty massive track car budget, fyi. My daily is nearly track ready, and it only cost me £3k...
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I think I've decided to just find a cheap car to strip the interior on completely and use that for a while. I ended up not getting the job I was supposed to get, so the $50K budget went down the drain. I'm just wanting a 5-speed, preferably RWD, semi reliable, quick, and fun.
Another question, how are you supposed to heel to a street car? The throttle pedal is wayyytoo far past the brake peal for me to do it on the ones I've driven. Is that even a thing for street cars?
Another question, how are you supposed to heel to a street car? The throttle pedal is wayyytoo far past the brake peal for me to do it on the ones I've driven. Is that even a thing for street cars?
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Good manual transmissions are set up for heel-toe. The previously mentioned E36 is set up just fine for it. You need pedals that are spaced properly for it and a car that doesn't have a lot of brake pedal travel. If the brake pedal travels a long distance there's no way that you can use heel-toe when you're not threshold braking (or if you can, you can't do it when threshold braking which would be even worse). Quite a few street cars are set up nicely for this.
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