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Also DS participation is soft. We'd be doing them a favor. Additionally I suspect the TRD-sprung FRS will get buried by the ND at nats - seriously, go drive an ND, they are stupid easy to turn quick times in - and also by the updated 2017 model, plus whatever the SEB decides to shuffle down from BS. In a year you're going to be very happy to put your stock springs back on and go WRX hunting. Unless you're all silly enough to write your letter against it, in which case, have fun fighting Caymans/Boxsters and 2017 twins with faster gearing/potentially no torque dip. Spring swapping is technically legal for us, but not in the spirit of street class rules. Don't expect your car to stay competitive for too much longer; the SEB can't outlaw those springs without massively breaking a lot of things, so they like to bury stuff like that instead (see: MX-5 MSR, Solstice Z0K, Boss 302 Laguna Seca, and others). |
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I was one of those who wrote a letter last year after running my non-TRD FR-S. I was still able to trophy last year at Toledo against TRD FRS's and BRZs. I codrove a TRD car at Nationals last year. I've been running CS for 4 years now but only half of this year on TRD stuff, but I am convinced that the advantages of the TRD stuff only comes into play at the important concrete lots with the best drivers. I think tire and shock choice are a bigger factor. At most of my local lots, I don't even believe there is any difference between the BRZ and FR-S (driven both back-to-back multiple times).
I originally chose the FR-S because it was lighter and cheaper than the BRZ. Whatever the ruling may be for a split or remaining in CS, I will be fine with it and adjust. Maybe I'll buy a BRZ for DS (or put my springs back on), maybe a 986S for CS, maybe a Fiata, but the street classes are bound to change when a newer and faster car comes into the class. I've been pretty bummed this year getting massacred by the local ND which is regularly raw timing STX and most of STR. I felt a little better after seeing it dominate at Wilmington Pro and last weekend's DC Tour (let's not look at its gap to me), but I'm going to give it a go one more time in Lincoln this year in my car. We'll see how the season pans out... as long as I'm still having fun, I'm good. I'll still be out there in CS, DS, or wherever they put it. If it's not the car to have, perhaps it's time to move to the next car and use my FR-S as just a fun car to own. |
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I spent all last year running with the Potockis at locals. They were on the springs, I was not. We traded finishing positions all year long. And a BRZ on MCS was always up at the top, among or ahead of us, too. FWIW. There is some truth to Locust's suggestion that "The sky is falling" chatter from the subaru side of the debate does become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I know that if I JUST bought a BRZ, then read this forum, I wouldn't autocross it at all, because I'd be convinced I have to go to STX, and I don't have 8-10k in "well-why-not" money to do so.
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Me and Nik J will do this eventually, but I think you need to change the wheels and tires too for it to be a fair comparison. The difference of full tread tires ('Stones), to 80 run worn tires is a larger change in performance than a rear bar and TRD springs.
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I did this at test and tune to shut up a local BRZ person complaining about my TRD FRS. A couple of cars in between and 3 runs each car. I was 0.2 slower in the BRZ on a 45 second course. |
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But it's also not your car and your tires/gas level/setup could have all been different. A lot of factors to account for. To truly test it we need a neutral driver, completely filled gas tanks to ensure they're exactly the same, and brand new tires on each car. You're going to drive someone else's car differently than you'll drive your own.
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That's the thing though, the people who are worried about having leather and climate control for to keep it a nice daily driver are not the people winning trophies at Nationals. The performance difference between TRD and non-TRD is at the top level guys, not at the people competing for the bottom half. In other words, tell your friends to stop their belly-aching because it isn't making a shit bit of difference to them.
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So im curious. I've been racing in the novice class for over half a season now, prior to that i've been to a hand full of autocross events. Currently i'm still rolling on stock tires, the only modification i have is coilover(yes i know it throw me into STX). While i wait for my wheels(TC105N) and tires(RE71R) to come in, my last 3-4 sessions has been fairly consistent, time wise. i've had instructors sit in the car with me, and they all say i'm over driving the tires. So my question is, for those who raced on stock tires and swapped to RE71Rs, how much time did you think you've shaved off on average? i know a buddy who was within half a sec of me leaped by 3-5sec after he swapped from stock shitty tires to RE71R.
Its getting frustrating that i can't get better time. i'm sure the driver(me) still have a lot of improvements to make, and i will keep doing so till my tires get here. areas i could work on at the moment is still looking ahead, braking early and finding the correct line. |
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