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Originally Posted by ka-t_240
Oil Coolers are allowed in STX, the got added recently.
SCCA also is now allowing regions to make the call on aesthetic mods in street touring at local events(non national/pro solo type). For instance vents, lips, side skirts, wings etc can be allowed at regions discretion.
My region has lots of cars show up that are in prepared classes for worthless mods that bring them to *SP or *P classes, especially when they show up on blow suspension and 400tw tires. It isn't good for the sport as people who know nothing about autox that want to try get scared due to the class they get put in.
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It's not even that people get "scared", it's just that it's not fun to go as a newbie and compete against somebody who's previously won a national title, just because you took the backseat out of your car and replaced it with $40 in chloroplast from Home Depot. Sure, it cut ~30 pounds off the car, but it's not going to make a newbie into Randy Pobst, so why be so anal about it? That's basically what happened to me, I went to one AutoX event and realized I'd spent all day to get a total of ~10 minutes driving, while classed against people who'd been doing AutoX for years or decades. I got put directly into Modified thanks to removing my back seat and also since my oil cooler is built into the radiator (Jackson Racing Dual Rad). My car was on stock suspension, stock alignment, stock power, on 300tw tires, but yep, I'm in Modified.