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You could also look at getting an E series Falcon.

For the money your not going to find anything more powerfull and they weigh 1500kg in the EF's and less then 1400 kg in the EA and EB's, once you strip them that will be fairly light weight, 165kw, and very reliable.

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Any updates? Did you decide on what to get?

By the way, to keep prices down, a road registered car you can drive to and from the track would help greatly. Don't have to buy a trailer or tow vehicle then.

Just have to be careful and not bin it on the track.

Marlin Grand Master

Marlin

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Well, we have five super-budget builds on the go now! lol

The latest is an EF XR8 sedan. Another one that we expect to get done for under 5k or so all up, using parts we have lying around the show :D

We have project;

S13/RB20

FWD Trueno

Lancer GSR/Evo

Celica GT4

and now the XR8.

Marlin Grand Master

Marlin

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you must have one huge garage Ben! lol

what are they going to be for? supersprints?

haha, no mate, my garage isn't enormous, when I say "we" I refer to my little bunch of racing mates. We're lucky that two of the group each own largish mechanical workshops. Basically, there's a car for everyone, and if we keep them cheap we all reckon it's more fun. Half the fun is building them together, and because they owe so little we can kind of treat them as "tear-offs" :D

They're just built for circulating the local racetracks, nothing in particular. ;)

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