Thinking of buying a Scirocco track day car

[Chris71]

A friend and I are talking about getting a track day car at the moment and this caught my eye in the PH ads:

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/512432.htm

Generally speaking, what mods need to be carried out before they're suitable for track use (for fun I hasten to add, not trying to set any lap records)?

What are parts costs like?

Are there any bits which are prone to breaking? Anything to look for?

Finally - we'd be looking to drive to and from the track I think, can anyone recommend a good insurer for something like that? Does the 'rocco classify as a classic?

[Crash Test Dummy]

chris buy a mk2 golf.

just like a rocco but a hell of a lot easier to modify for tracking.

look into the GTi Championship, run by 750 MotorClub. Thats what me and a friend are entering.

roccos are terrible cars

[Chris71]

How so? (Not an expert on either, you may well be right....)

My understanding was that the rocco was based on the mk1 GTi and had drove in a fairly similar manner, but whereas a decent mk1 GTi is silly money, you'd struggle to find a Scirocco for more than £1k.

[Crash Test Dummy]

Chris71 said:

How so? (Not an expert on either, you may well be right....)

My understanding was that the rocco was based on the mk1 GTi and had drove in a fairly similar manner, but whereas a decent mk1 GTi is silly money, you'd struggle to find a Scirocco for more than £1k.

I am very much a VW geek, although have spent more times with polos than any other models.

Your right in that a rocco is similar but they are not a mk1 golf with abit on the back, in the sense a Mk1 Jetta was.

£1000 will buy you an extremely nice mk2 golf gti.If my mk2 golf was anything more than a rolling shell I would show you. Depending on how much mechanical ability you have depends on what you can buy. Me and my mate had the biggest st-heap of a mk2 but we rebuilt the engine and welded new panels all over the car [in the right place we didn't just spontaneously begin welding pannels]

Mk2 golf were fun cars when they were new. 150~bhp at 1000kg makes a great track toy. The understeer is hideous and the lift-off understeer is a pain but they really are great cars to drive.