Which R-comps for Auto-X?

[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.