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Originally Posted by dsgerbc
No, these guys are talking to a small subset of autocrossers - those who delude themselves about becoming 'nationally competitive'. Disproportionate share of autox-ers show up to have fun in their car.
Plenty of rx8 owners spent crapload on 'stx' mods only to make their cars slower, lol.
And notice that they are not talking about stock class either, cause those guys won't buy much from them, hence little sense to start priming them early.
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Delude themselves huh? Do you know who Vorschlag is? Probably not.
They have provided very valuable insight by measuring this car. All their praise and criticisms are dead on, and are highly relevant to both auto-x people and track people. Estimating removable weight strategies is useful, and the observations about suspension geometry is also very relevant for mild suspension mods. I just wish they would have told us
which Subaru model shares the front struts.
What pisses me off about this forum is the number of "drifting is rad yo!" people here. Anyone who thinks keeping Prius tires on the car is a good idea is straight up retarded. I am astounded that Subaru is pulling this "pseudo luxury" attitude and putting such crappy tires on the car. I suppose it's not much different from when the original WRX came with RE-92s (sigh), but Prius tires are insulting. Anyone who knows anything about cars should know that tires are the
single most important part on the car which improves car performance. Braking, acceleration, and cornering all depend on high quality tires. The first thing I'm going to do is pull these absurd piles of crap and put some high quality street tires on.
