Originally posted by Buckshot77:
I meant more flexibility in things like aesthetic mods or simple bolt-ons. Yes you can keep a strictly bone-stock class if you want, but a majority of people do a few aesthetic or simple bolt on mods like an open filter intake, CF hood, different rims and bang they get classed into something they are going to not be competitive in.

Basically I think the rules are really punishing a majority of the people that the SCCA is targeting to grow it's membership and really catering to the more hardcore guys that are there every weekend trying to squeeze every last 10th out of a particular setup to the Nth degree for one class.

Rick



I agree if SCCA want to be more friendly to the new generation of car guys (kids in hondas), they should allow more basic mods. I think STS does this well, and the CF hood is a weight reducer, so where do you stop? Can they replace anything with something lighter? I think the rules could use some tweaking to allow more street-oriented cars to run competitively, but it's also not good to make the rules more complicated. I say, let those who care, win. Odds are the people with the specialized auto-x setups are going to be unbeatable because they throw on their super-light 15s and rip it up every weekend, and they are very good at driving their car. If a hard-core auto-xer in an SVT swapped cars with a noob in an auto zetec, I bet they would still win. It's no big deal to me to have those two in the same class. If we all really wanted to win auto-x races, we could be driving celicas and honda civics with newer motors, like most of the winners do. The contour is not a winning auto-x car, but it is a really fun one, and that's all that matters to me.

-Philip Maynard '95 Contour [71 STS | Track Whore] '97 Miata [71 ES | Boulevard Pimp] 2006 autocross results