Good dedicated track car?
02-14-2006, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by rlaifatt,Feb 14 2006, 10:59 AM
Someone just posted this on the SoCal forum:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/car/133788051.html
Looks like a steal. I should buy it for parts.
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/car/133788051.html
Looks like a steal. I should buy it for parts.
I thought the blue SD was a repaired salvage to begin with?
02-14-2006, 10:50 AM
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Im 6'2" and had a motorola cup miata, and fit without a problem. Now Im building a 91 rx7 and am convinced that its the track car to have right now. Cheap and easy to work on and own, and VERY competitive in its class.
I have also been working on the build for about a year and a half, so unless your planning a really superficial build, plan on outsourcing all of yoru labor, or have tons of time per day to dedicate to it, I would reccomend buying a pre-built car. The "drop a roll cage and two or three mods and go racing" philosophy isn't really accurate.
If you only want a track day car, just do what krazik was reccomending and get a nice welded cage in your car. If its done right it wont eat up any legroom. Ive sat in cars with those cusco bolted in cages, and I know they do eat a good chunk of room, but a pro-spec welded cage wont.
I have also been working on the build for about a year and a half, so unless your planning a really superficial build, plan on outsourcing all of yoru labor, or have tons of time per day to dedicate to it, I would reccomend buying a pre-built car. The "drop a roll cage and two or three mods and go racing" philosophy isn't really accurate.
If you only want a track day car, just do what krazik was reccomending and get a nice welded cage in your car. If its done right it wont eat up any legroom. Ive sat in cars with those cusco bolted in cages, and I know they do eat a good chunk of room, but a pro-spec welded cage wont.
02-14-2006, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by rlaifatt,Feb 14 2006, 10:59 AM
Someone just posted this on the SoCal forum:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/car/133788051.html
Looks like a steal. I should buy it for parts.
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/car/133788051.html
Looks like a steal. I should buy it for parts.
02-14-2006, 04:04 PM
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There's a local guy with a race-prepared CRX, who gave me a ride at Spokane last June. It was amazing what a good driver can do with a FWD car. That little thing, with something like a 130bhp engine, was not passed by anybody in the inistructor group, in the ten or so laps I rode with him.
Nevertheless, I'd like to have RWD car for my track car. Thanks anyway.
Nevertheless, I'd like to have RWD car for my track car. Thanks anyway.
02-14-2006, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by krazik,Feb 14 2006, 04:55 PM
http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/car/133973978.html now he's posting the bay area, same car.