[chanomatik]

Originally Posted by qoncept

I'm getting leather knee pads only because I'm tired of banging my knee in to the plastic. I could do without any more red stitching. I'm undecided so far on whether I'd LIKE an arm rest - the storage in the car is already so limited I like having it open. I certainly don't get bewildered by people who don't want them.

If it weren't for stock class in autox, I don't know where I'd be with this car right now (actually, I probably wouldn't have bought it). But I've done the super-stiff-minimal-gain suspension thing, spent lots of money on cars trying to make them go fast and look right.

I started autoxing 10 years ago and slowly I started to notice that the old guys were pretty much all running in stock class. Not old guys that just started going it. Guys that were probably me 20 years ago. They spent a ton of money prepping cars, making them less comfortable and shaking parts loose with stiff springs and poly bushings, and realized you really don't get all that much out of it.

I hover around the top 15-20% of raw times week after week in a car with just tires, a catback and front sway bar. I'm faster than guys with full exhausts, wider wheels, tunes, coilovers, etc etc. Not because of my (limited) talent but because I did the right things to the car.

You're inspiring!