Fit them before you leave or lower the seats and you should get 4 wheels and tyres in there [plus a jack!].
Lauren - I thought that this would be your response and for track days, I tend to agree. However, robjnr wants more power which appears to suggest that he wishes to lap quicker, rather than to increase the fun factor. Hence my tyre suggestion.
Personally, I find cornering quicker [from increased tyre grip if necessary] to be good fun too!
I can see your point and for example, BaT's Caterham Superlights were more 'fun' than my Megablade, albeit slower over a lap.
Given your comments about how long the Goodyear F1s last on track, I would have thought that more/sustained grip would be an improvement?
Stickier tyres may remove some of the challenge at a particular corner, but having more power alone just makes the bits in between the corners quicker.
Where are the stats on the re-map option, has anyone actually done this and got rolling road details? I'd be interested to see them.
In terms of going quicker at trackdays, I'd recommend the following steps:
First, get some instruction. We'd all find a great deal of speed and satisfaction.
Then, and I'd question the need to go faster at a track day (also the Panda is never actually going to be "challenging" quick), I'd think about the brakes and tyres. I'd think about upgrading the brake pads before doing anything else - although the standard kit seems pretty good. With better tyres (i.e. those list 1b tyres like R888's / 048R's) you'd carry so much more speed through the corners and therefore down the straights. This would be far more effective than a remap. You'd easily fit a set of wheels in the car with the rear seats down - it's a van! Actually, has anyone bought a set of replacement wheels recently? You would also protect your street tyres from damage so it's quite a good investment.
Finally, I'd think about the re-map. And I'd only do this with "proof" of the upgrade.
Also you mention tyres, i don't want to be swapping over tyres, i just want to drive to a track day hassle free. Also you learn how the car behaves on trackdays so i'd like to learn with my everyday road tyres and not just tyres which will JUST be used for trackdays if you know what i mean.
I'd agree as well. Track days should be fun, low hassle and as low cost as possible. I think it's best to accept that the Panda is a low speed but very fun car - exactly what it was designed to be.
I've been looking at brakes but all that is coming up are greenstuff pads and tarox (which i've heard alot of bad reviews about)
Greenstuff pads work well bur at a price, they munch discs (copper strands in the pad material) Mintex C-tech pads are supposed to be good performance pads, yet to try them for myself so cannot comment any further.
was you on oem disks? lots of threads on here moaning they dont last long even with standard pads
All I need now is for the car to go fast enough to warrant such excellent stoppers......