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Originally Posted by FT
I haven't kept up with autox tires lately, but you may want to consider the STU class if the car qualifies, which I am not sure that it does. Otherwise, may want to try R888 tires, shaved, which you can drive on the street with. Depending on what you mean by 'getting serious,' you may have to buy one of those small tire haulers and have hitch mounted on the car. My opinion is that I would not get too serious with the CS in autox, I don't think it can really do much against its competition in the class it is now. May be if it is moved into SCCA's AS class, but otherwise not worth spending any money on the car to be competitive.
http://www.moutons.org/sccasolo/Lists/2006/stockc.html
For PCA autoxing, in stock form it performs the best and I don't think any other P-car can touch it, so no need to spend any money, except putting some Falken Azenis or Bridgestone 050s. |
Yup, those (Azenis and 050's) would be what the tire geeks are recommending this season for non-R compound sneaks, and perfectly capable of driving to and from events. If you hit a downpour on the drive home, and they're shaved, things get pretty exciting, thou. There's definately a lot to be said for staying absolutely stock. But, in my area right now the best competition happens to be in the
PCA "Production" class, by far. Also, in the local time trials there are no classes which ban r compounds, so, if you want to be even remotely competitive you have to go there, even in the most stock classes.
Regarding exhausts, my understanding is that
PCA production classes list exhausts as "free". My exhaust retains two cats and easily passes emissions, so I can't imagine there'd be an issue. As far as I know this is also the case with SCCA, and certainly is with COM, the TT sponsors.
Not sure which variant "jmazz" is running, but my 2.7 seems pretty much in the game with SCCA, and yes, I think the S will struggle where they put it as there's not really a huge difference in the two on an autocross circuit. To that I'd say seek out the
PCA events. We had around 16 Boxsters and Caymans last weekend and some great, close battles. Our local chapters just lump the S's and normals together and it's still the driver who determines the outcome. I find it a lot of fun to run against a "one design" field, where everyone has pretty much the same hardware....rather than agonzing and speculating whether or not it was the man or the machine that determined the outcome.