Which R-comps for Auto-X?

[SilverBack]

Sweet! Thanks for your help Jason

[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by SilverBack

Sweet! Thanks for your help Jason

Keep in mind none of the tires you were looking at are ST legal - must have a 140 or higher tread wear rating for ST.

[SilverBack]

I guess I'll just have to use the Falkens again for the next event and just grab a sway bar and CAI way before. I can still wait a minute to get rims and tires seeing as how I need to make enough storage space for them anyway. Can I still run the sway bar and CAI in ST? I'm looking at the class rules right now, but doesn't really say anything specific about engine and suspension parts til you get to SP.

http://www.sfrscca.com/solo2/faq/auto.htm#114

I take it "common parts" also include CAI? Or is it limited to a filter-only upgrade? Is sway bar also considered common?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by SilverBack

I guess I'll just have to use the Falkens again for the next event and just grab a sway bar and CAI way before. I can still wait a minute to get rims and tires seeing as how I need to make enough storage space for them anyway. Can I still run the sway bar and CAI in ST? I'm looking at the class rules right now, but doesn't really say anything specific about engine and suspension parts til you get to SP.

http://www.sfrscca.com/solo2/faq/auto.htm#114

I take it "common parts" also include CAI? Or is it limited to a filter-only upgrade? Is sway bar also considered common?

Those are not the rules: http://scca.com/contentpage.aspx?content=61

You want to look at section 13-19, specifically for Street Touring.

[SilverBack]

Originally Posted by Jason@SportsCar

Those are not the rules: http://scca.com/contentpage.aspx?content=61

You want to look at section 13-19, specifically for Street Touring.

Okay now it's making even more sense. Getting there slowly lol. I checked the SCCA page several times before that. Not sure why I couldn't find it...

[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by SilverBack

Okay now it's making even more sense. Getting there slowly lol. I checked the SCCA page several times before that. Not sure why I couldn't find it...

The website is not super user friendly, and the rules can be even less so - particularly in the state they are in. Typically it is one link on the site for the whole book, and you even get a side menu to find the section you want, but at the point they put it online they were not 100% done.

ST will let you do a lot of things to make up for the lack of the stock classes sticky tires: CIA, header, cat-back, ECU, pulleys, shifter, suspension, race seats, wings.

Just for comparisons sake... We took our stock class RX-8, that had won four strait BS championships and converted it to STX in 2009. The difference in prep between stock and STX was about $10k, and the car was slower in STX trim - it is no longer in STX trim. I like race tires.

imho it is hard to beat the transformation that occurs when you put race tires on an otherwise "stock" car. The comfortable daily driver feels like a racecar with just a simple tire change. While an ST car reminds you on a daily basis with its poor ride quality, noisy exhaust and limited ground clearance. And in almost every case a stock class car on race tires is quicker than a no expense spared ST car. Spend more money to go slower? No thanks.

[kngrsll]

Originally Posted by Jason@SportsCar

The website is not super user friendly, and the rules can be even less so - particularly in the state they are in. Typically it is one link on the site for the whole book, and you even get a side menu to find the section you want, but at the point they put it online they were not 100% done.

ST will let you do a lot of things to make up for the lack of the stock classes sticky tires: CIA, header, cat-back, ECU, pulleys, shifter, suspension, race seats, wings.

Just for comparisons sake... We took our stock class RX-8, that had won four strait BS championships and converted it to STX in 2009. The difference in prep between stock and STX was about $10k, and the car was slower in STX trim - it is no longer in STX trim. I like race tires.

imho it is hard to beat the transformation that occurs when you put race tires on an otherwise "stock" car. The comfortable daily driver feels like a racecar with just a simple tire change. While an ST car reminds you on a daily basis with its poor ride quality, noisy exhaust and limited ground clearance. And in almost every case a stock class car on race tires is quicker than a no expense spared ST car. Spend more money to go slower? No thanks.

well ST is very appealing to me in my current situation. I have the yaris with a few bolt ons. springs, shocks, rear sway bar, a header, and intake. Those are pretty cheap common mods around here. Now you have the option to compete in ST or FSP based on how much you want to spend on tires. I prefer to just run in ST and use my street tires. Will i compete on the national level? nope, will i be competitive at a regional level? highly doubt it. but is it a great class to arrive and drive when i get the chance? hell yeah! so ST works for alot of people, and i think thats really why they created the class.

now what i would REALLY like to do is run an S2k in stock class with R-comp's. THAT would be fuuuun!