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Originally Posted by Tristor

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.

I guess, radiators are not an allowed ST mod, so I can see they bumping for that. I personally would have just put you in STX since thats where the car belongs.