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Originally Posted by strat61caster
$1500 second hand Megan’s, drove to work yesterday on my Bridgestone’s that I got 2nd with at Crows two weeks ago. Wheels were $500 from T_Rod, $1700 for the tune and header, $700 for the front swaybar, $2k for the diff, not much slower without the diff and fancy bar and nice header, could cut the build down to ~$3.5k to prove a point, amortize that over the ~6 years I’ve been autoxing this car semi seriously.  |
You're fortunate to live in an area with a healthy second had market for your car. Here in the hinterlands...not so much. They are very thin on the ground and there are even fewer parts floating around on the ground. I searched all winter long for a set of wheels and ended up buying new because there were none on the market in a 4~5 hour radius.
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Driving still beats the hell out of mods 99% of the time, changing my car could’ve bought me a few tenths of a second a few weeks ago but most of my >1.4s deficit was skill disparity.
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Absolutely! When I did a novice day two years ago, my instructor, who consistently has the fastest raw time in every local event he attends, was roughly 10 seconds faster than me in the car I was driving at the time. For a while we had to guys in street class who always placed in the top five raw times; one in a Mk7 GTI, another in an E90 M3. There was much hotter stuff in the paddock, but they were simply wizards behind the wheel.
At the end of the day, I show up for fun and I try to improve each season. However when looking at how things are run/organized, the classing is often a head scratcher...even for those of us not chasing trophies.