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    Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    I'm gunna track a clio, on a budget of course.

    Will this have any benefit in real world town and motorway driving conditions?

    Im not going to be going hard into the round about if ya know what i mean.

    Is a road legal track car something totally different from fast street car?

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    track cars are usually bare minimum, you dont need a radio, rear seats, sound deadening, carpet etc in a track car but they are quite nice for the daily grind/road use

    tracks are generally smooth, roads generally aint... sound deadening/roof lining/carpets makes a difference on the road, and also when its cold it usually stops the ice forming on the inside of the screen

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Dont do it Kenobi

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    They are not the sort of thing to just hop into to pop down the shops .
    Cold ,noisy,hard and uncomfortable ...and you look a right tit getting in and out of it

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Hmmm, This clio has a full williams interior in it so perhaps i should just go for fast road and enjoy iy every day. Then just love it on the track at national day.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by clee View Post
    Trouble is my Colt CZT is a face street car. i havent got that track experience yet. Perhaps i will keep the clio comfy until i have had a few goes (years) on the track. then if I'm enjoying it maybe the clio can become that weapon.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    id just leave it .. from your track record you will get it all sorted road worthy, put 4 miles on it, and then let it sit on the drive a month and sell it on.


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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by djinuk View Post
    id just leave it .. from your track record you will get it all sorted road worthy, put 4 miles on it, and then let it sit on the drive a month and sell it on.

    LOL you ass bandit.

    This is my final Renault project.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    have you picked it up yet ?

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by djinuk View Post
    have you picked it up yet ?

    Ive paid for delivery from Durham. It arrives lunch time Saturday with allsorts of spares including a spare engine.

    This car as actually been worked on my Nocturnal lads.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    sweet man, sounds interesting , lol bet ur excited :P

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by djinuk View Post
    sweet man, sounds interesting , lol bet ur excited :P
    Some part of me wants this car to be ****ed so that when i do get it back on the road its been a challenge.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by clee View Post
    They are not the sort of thing to just hop into to pop down the shops .
    Cold ,noisy,hard and uncomfortable ...and you look a right tit getting in and out of it
    'tis true, I have removed all the sound deadening, roof lining, heater, radio, door cards etc. fitted corbeau revolution seats, and to say on uk roads it's uncomfortable is and understatement. If you're determined, at least keep the heater.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by tobester View Post
    'tis true, I have removed all the sound deadening, roof lining, heater, radio, door cards etc. fitted corbeau revolution seats, and to say on uk roads it's uncomfortable is and understatement. If you're determined, at least keep the heater.
    done the same with mine feelg good whilst driving but in reality its bloody freezing,

    an to top it off i got a £60 fine for not wearing my harneses as i was trying to de mist the screen with a tea towl

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by dave r5 View Post
    done the same with mine feelg good whilst driving but in reality its bloody freezing,

    an to top it off i got a £60 fine for not wearing my harneses as i was trying to de mist the screen with a tea towl
    been there!!

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by dave r5 View Post
    done the same with mine feelg good whilst driving but in reality its bloody freezing,

    an to top it off i got a £60 fine for not wearing my harneses as i was trying to de mist the screen with a tea towl
    Thats really funny. How can you remove heating anyway? hows that work?

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kenobi View Post
    Thats really funny. How can you remove heating anyway? hows that work?
    You take the heater matrix out mate

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    I rembember driving my tungy up to santa pod with no heater box all carpets removed plastic windows no radio no fcuk all. Having plastic windows that dont go down causes problems all the heat coming through the bulkhead plus being a hot day was un bearable, on the motor way stripped down to my shorts sweating like a fat kid in a cake shop. Plus I had a battery radio in the car which I thought would be a good idea for the trip, how wrong was I. It was so loud in the car I could not hear the radio on full volume. Got out the other end wet through and with a banging head ache. I think I might get a trailer for the track car

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by rs250nut View Post
    I rembember driving my tungy up to santa pod with no heater box all carpets removed plastic windows no radio no fcuk all. Having plastic windows that dont go down causes problems all the heat coming through the bulkhead plus being a hot day was un bearable, on the motor way stripped down to my shorts sweating like a fat kid in a cake shop. Plus I had a battery radio in the car which I thought would be a good idea for the trip, how wrong was I. It was so loud in the car I could not hear the radio on full volume. Got out the other end wet through and with a banging head ache. I think I might get a trailer for the track car

    , I remember following you back that time.....you looked like you were going to faint behind the wheel from all the heat !

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kris M View Post
    , I remember following you back that time.....you looked like you were going to faint behind the wheel from all the heat !
    At one point I had my foot wedged in the door trying to get the heat out

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by Markey Mark (BD) View Post
    You take the heater matrix out mate
    But theres Hoses that go beyond the fire wall? (if thats what its called , a fire wall)

    Where does that water go?

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kenobi View Post
    But theres Hoses that go beyond the fire wall? (if thats what its called , a fire wall)

    Where does that water go?
    The two hoses can be joined together or move the header tank and get shot of most of it.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    ...it only weighs a couple of kilo's...may as well leave the matrix alone....plus, you will lose some of the cooling efficiency of the engine coolant system.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by Matt5 View Post
    ...it only weighs a couple of kilo's...may as well leave the matrix alone....plus, you will lose some of the cooling efficiency of the engine coolant system.

    Thanks for that.

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    Re: Preparing a car for track, does it help a road car?

    Quote Originally Posted by Matt5 View Post
    ...it only weighs a couple of kilo's...may as well leave the matrix alone....plus, you will lose some of the cooling efficiency of the engine coolant system.
    not noticed any cooling efficiency loss to be honest, but yeah if I was building again then I'd have left the matrix in, I have still got the blower motor(I cut the bottom of the airbox off and fibreglassed it closed so I could still use it to blow air at the windscreen) but it's cold air only. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, particularly in this weather.

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