Originally Posted by strat61caster (Post 3534163)

In my experience either they’re already in STR with the parts from their old STX cars or they’re going to ride out DS until they’re not competitive anymore. Locally I think there’s 5x new cars, three in DS and two in STR, both STR builds are using their mk1 parts for the most part.

There’s less then 10k mk2s on the road at this point vs 100k mk1 cars, seems like a dumb argument to outclass the old cars based on the handful of autoxers who jumped on the new hotness. That’s what nerfed STR participation but what do I know.

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Originally Posted by foshjowler (Post 3534152)

Miata is should have its own spec class, STMiata.

Originally Posted by G_Ride (Post 3534172)

Two of those in DS will eventually make their way to ST, either after this year or in another year once this whole ST issue is better figured out.

It made sense for the two of us that went straight to ST. We already had the parts...and we enjoy having front camber.

Originally Posted by otter (Post 3534173)

I've thought for a while that this seems like the next logical step after the success of SSC. Not sure what the class letters should be, though, since SSR and SSM are both taken. SND for Spec ND?

Also, in a year or two it'd be great to see SSC updated to allow all 1st gens and to get an SSC2 for the 2nd gens...........I'd be down for going that route instead of ST*.

Originally Posted by otter (Post 3534175)

I intend to go to ST* regardless of where the car sits, likely in 2024. I just need a bit more time for people who are smarter than me to develop the car while I build up the budget.

Originally Posted by strat61caster (Post 3534211)

I don’t even know what coilovers I would buy if you gave me $5k to spend on coilovers. I guess call up mcs and buy knobs I don’t need?

Originally Posted by foshjowler (Post 3534218)

$5k was an exaggeration, but if I was to get coilovers for ST* I'd likely go with Xidas. Those and MCS are in the $4k price range. Buy once, cry once sort of thing. Even at $2k for coilovers, you could probably get the complete SSC kit, other than tires, for that.

Originally Posted by G_Ride (Post 3534215)

Buy something cheaper, pocket what's left of the $5k

Originally Posted by DocWalt (Post 3534153)

Would be funny for the Zs to go back to STR, haha. Considering the SCCA scales are always such broken garbage, not sure I'd want to use a weight split for wheel size, but it would be really interesting.


Oddly, the STS folks I've talked to seem to be like "well, meh, ok." I suspect the Hondas would still be quite competitive with a diff, NA Miatas maybe less so because the VLSD does sorta work?



I think the NB would be a blast in STX, the ECU issues with that limit it a lot which is both nice and annoying.