What car is best?

[MattyR8]

So I'm after a car which I can pick up for cheap, thinking cat c or d write off I want to performance tune, bit of a sleeper but something that would look good being lowered with big rims. Just a bit tatty on the outside. A small hatchback, something around 1.8-2.0 mark. I was wondering which car you guys would sudgest and what mods to do, I haven't got a massive budget but over time I don't mind spending the wonga.
Cheers

[MattyR8]

Slow said:

We need some sort of budget.

"I haven't got a massive budget" on here that could be 10k or £500.

I want to pick the car up under the £500 mark so I was thing cat c or d for the car, and then with a budget of around 3-4K to do all mods over a period of time.

[MattyR8]

spookly said:

Assuming you aren't still at school and currently on holidays then if you want to tune up a stbox as a bit of a sleeper then the easiest to make faster for cheap will be:

1. Turbo charged engine
2. Engine you can easily add turbo supercharger to

N/A engines are far more costly to get more power from. Most turbo cars can add a fairly good amount from a remap. More still from a few simple mods (bigger turbo, intercooler, downpipes, decat, exhaust, induction mods).

No well out of school haha, but yer that's what I was thinking but un sure which car is best to do this with. It seems that not all turbo engines are easy to swap about and add power. What do you sudgest is best?

[MattyR8]

Screechmr2 said:

get a citroen c2 vts and put the v6 engine in. been done a few times, there's actually a company that will do the conversion for £2.5k, a rapid street sleeper.

This sounds good, been doing some research into it, seems that it's a fairly easy conversion with very good end results.

[MattyR8]

MattyR8 said:

Screechmr2 said:

get a citroen c2 vts and put the v6 engine in. been done a few times, there's actually a company that will do the conversion for £2.5k, a rapid street sleeper.

This sounds good, been doing some research into it, seems that it's a fairly easy conversion with very good end results.

So that is one option, but if I was to just mess around with a standard car with its standard engine what is the best car and what mods are avalible for it?