Fbody and autox?
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3 of 4 my SCCA Solo National Championships are in f-bodies. 2 of my 3 SCCA ProSolo titles are in f-bodies. They do just fine as long as you build them properly and don't hose yourself on classing (which many folks do with mods that don't help).
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Focus on driving, suspension, driving, alignment, driving, tires and driving. You don't need more power. You don't need better brakes. You don't need chassis stiffening. Just drive it, perhaps replace the shocks, some springs, swaybars, get some race tires. But, driving it is what helps the most and is the cheapest.
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Launching!
The rational part of my brain keeps telling me that I should really get a car more "suitable" for this kind of thing. The rest of my brain says driving these things through the cones is just too damn much fun.
Besides, which looks cooler?
This....
or this?
That's what I thought.
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Fbody is a great autox competitive car for stock class and street prepared classes. It's street touring class and SM it's not so competitive in.
Not to mention all the compliments you get from everyone at the event. I drive with the local BMW club and they love seeing and hearing my car out there
Not to mention all the compliments you get from everyone at the event. I drive with the local BMW club and they love seeing and hearing my car out there
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it may be true...but they're also buttering you up to get you to come back and stay hooked on auto xing with them.
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Any of the v8 cars pretty much tend to turn heads and get the compliments. Between the corvettes, the fbody cars, even the Audi RS4 or S4's.... hell I thought I heard a corvette behind me and turned around and it was an Audi!
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Or.. you can read the GM high performance article on Sam's car and figure out what he's using exactly and use that as a template
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A well setup autox car is very good on a track, and the way I do it also very streetable. In fact our lowering springs are directly derived from what I use in my car to autox on.
And while he can read the GMHTP article...he can also just call me. I don't hide my setup from anyone, even my competitors.
And while he can read the GMHTP article...he can also just call me. I don't hide my setup from anyone, even my competitors.
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I only noticed that article a few weeks ago. I was pretty suprised to see you only use Hawk HPS pads on your car while everyone else has the big boy race pads or at least HP+ setups. I think you mentioned it helps prevent over-braking in sweepers which makes sense. I probably do it a lot and it makes my car all outta whack, taking the not so ideal route through the turn
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yea and sams car is bascially what ill be wanting in the future, a very nice handling car, yet something streetable that i can take for a cruise on a nice day during the weekend. im not necessarily going to be competeing so the scca rule book doesnt make much of a difference . as cheesy as this may sound but sams car actually is quite an inspiration to my car.
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also with the unbeatable customer service, good prices and surprisingly quick shipping (got all my parts except the kybs already) ill be buying all my suspension parts from him, so i know ill be getting the right parts.
plus hes a UMI dealer
plus hes a UMI dealer
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I only noticed that article a few weeks ago. I was pretty suprised to see you only use Hawk HPS pads on your car while everyone else has the big boy race pads or at least HP+ setups. I think you mentioned it helps prevent over-braking in sweepers which makes sense. I probably do it a lot and it makes my car all outta whack, taking the not so ideal route through the turn
I would have been suprised if Sam used HP+es (or more radical) for autocrossing, even on 'big'/open courses like the nationals!!
I think he even used the street PBRs he sells on smaller/tighter lower speed courses??
Sam?