Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Autocross and Open Track how do you detemine your class?

intake is open in STS. Anything goes.

OK great, so what about the opt. svt tb....i'm not at all about cheating, but i have no other tb to go back to....do they check regularly, i can't imagine it giving me much of an edge if any...?

I wouldn't sweat it. When you register say you are all STS legal except for the TB, and see what they say. Odds are good no one will care.

i took a stock headlight, and gutted the rear portion, minus the turn signal area..so the back of the headlight that protrudes into the opening in the header panel crates a scoop in to the engine bay(with batery relocated)when the lense is cut an modified wit hfiberglass.

then there is a fiberglass box inside the enigine compartmentn that fits to this unit and the filter sits inside, so when assembled on the car, teh filter is sealed in it's own compartment open only to outside air.

So you're only running one headlight? That puts you in SP, if the Miata mod is equivalent. But again; just go and have fun! TB and this put you in DSP, I think. In my region sometimes STS is faster than DSP. Sometimes DSP kills - it's all who has a good day and keeps mentally sharp. No matter where you race, you'll still have times from every class to lok at and compare, so don't sweat it.

In my region DSP is a lot faster than STS (5 seconds on a 60 second course). We also have a few nationally prepped DSP BMW's that tend to kill the rest of the DSP class and nobody like that in STS.

I would run DSP but actually compaire your times in your head to STS. If you want to get way into AutoX I would look at what class you want to go for and then start modding for the class.

STS - get stock parts for those that you need too put back to stock and do the suspension and minor engine mods Auto-X Fil talked about in his other post in this section and get good "street" tires and lightwight wheels no more than 7.5" wide.

DSP - LSD, ummm lots of other junk you can add on in SP.. also R Compounds and again lightweight wheels but I don't think they are restricted in width.

OR just go out and have fun in your normal driveing car and don't worry about the classing and run DSP with a very uncompetive car. I know one guy out in VA who is running his SVT in DSP of a few simple mods that he did to it before he started AutoX.

I prefer to be completely legal for the class that I run and not have a chance of it coming out later that I was cheating in that class.
I was running STS with just a short shifter

That is the way AutoX seems to run. nobody cares how legal the cars behind them are only the ones that beat them.

Since it is a driver improvment event I would just run the class you are legal for and compaire your times on your own with the class you think you are more of a fit into.

Please explain these results if the 350Z is such a crappy AutoX car.
http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/File/solo-05packwood-sun.pdf

BS
Glenn L Austin 2005 Nissan 350Z 99.240

GS (class contour runs in stock)
Karl Coleman 2005 Mini Cooper 101.020

or these
http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/File/solo-05denver-sun.pdf

BS
Andy Hohl 2,003 Nissan 350Z Enthusia Kumho 138.910

GS(class contour runs in stock)
Craig D Wilcox 2,005 Mini Cooper S 143.519

You will see a few local 350Z's with bad drivers but the car itself is not that bad for AutoX.