Building a track day car

[Jinks]

Hi all, i am new to this awesome forum

I am in the process of planning and building a track day car
My plans "so far"
Most importantly i want and will use a 3SGTE engine no matter what
Either use a toyota starlet chassis or maybe even build a chassis myself.

I have some ideas about the other stuff but it all depends on what kind of chassis i am going to use and a few other things.
Preferably i will go with 4-wheel drive but if that wont work i will just use a mr2 transmission and go rear wheel drive.

Any way my question is, can a car be to light for good traction? This might be a stupid question, but this really got me thinking and i just dont know lol.

Hope you guys can help me out here, if there are any more questions feel free to ask.

[nizmo_man]

Not sure how expensive they are, but perhaps look into an ex-rally 4WD Celica or Corolla? Remember how much the F1 cars weigh .

[Jinks]

well yes, but the F1 cars have ALOT downforce realisticly i wont even get close to that

[nizmo_man]

Well, cars like Ariel Atom don't have too much trouble putting down the power . My point is, set the car up and it'll be fine.

Off topic, are you near Zandvoort? When I was up there, my local friends took me to a beach there, I could hear cars but didn't know there was a bloody race track there (until afterwards).

There's an ST185 rally car in Belgium for £60,000 lol
€15,000 ST185 in Poland
€30,000 ST205 in Hungary

Whatever you decide, keep us updated ja?

[Jinks]

not real close but i am about 1 hour drive away from zandvoort, and you ofcourse i will keep you guys up to date

thanks for the reply's