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Originally Posted by Shit Luck
Well I am not planning on going to nationals, but I am also not pulling my turbo kit off and wasting all that time and money I already have invested just to be able to compete in a class and make the car no fun to drive. Competing street mods are looking like 50k plus.
Especially when I can buy a legends car and have 20 plus tracks within 3 hours. And maybe spend a total of 10k for the car and season.
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If you feel like you have to spend $50,000 to compete in Street Modified then you are really misunderstanding the sport. Easily 95+% of your improvement at autocross will come from just getting experience and buying a good set of tires. When you start doing things like CF parts, slotted rotors, etc. you are chasing hundredths of seconds.
Take one of these and you'll see what really goes into being good at auto-cross:
http://www.evoschool.com/
Right now you're just blindly making statements that are rather insulting to the sport.
It sounds like you haven't even looked into what your local clubs run. If you were in Washington I would tell you that we have a Novice class that runs for a full year (8 events) where the only requirement is that you are on street tires 200 TW or higher. After that we have an Intermediate Street Tire class (IST) that has the same requirement that you can be in for 2 years before you even need to pick an actual car based class. And locally here if you want to run SM in our Non-stock PAX class you can add a street tire index if you don't want to run R-Comps. That's just for our SCCA club. I could go run at two other clubs in the area and have extremely favorable classing where they don't care if I put a turbo on the car. My Evo has all kinds of SM parts on it but I can run in a sedan class with lightly modified cars at one of the clubs if I want to.
Please go do some research on what your local clubs offer instead of asking for advice and then badmouthing the sport when you don't get the exact answer you want.
You said you got beat by 3 seconds at your first event. That's the wrong way to look at things. Have you had any track experience before? You have less than a full year of autocross experience and you're worried about SM classing? Very wrong way to look at this. Many long time autocrossers could straight time you in far slower cars due to experience alone. You should be getting as much seat time as possible and just trying to improve your technique.