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Got some questions Well I finally hit my goal of getting into the 12s tonight, so now I'm going to start concentrating on autocrossing. I've ran about 5 events on street tires over the last 3 years or so.
I'll be running in FS for now. I have an extra set of 16x8 camaro wheels. What tires should I get? I was thinking the Kumho tires...but I don't remember which ones were better. I also figure I'll get a 5 pt. harness and a front sway bar to be fairly competitive and save for some shocks. I'll have to take off my lid and STB to run FS, but that's no biggie.
Anything else I should add to my initial list of tires, harnes, and sway bar?
I'll be running in FS for now. I have an extra set of 16x8 camaro wheels. What tires should I get? I was thinking the Kumho tires...but I don't remember which ones were better. I also figure I'll get a 5 pt. harness and a front sway bar to be fairly competitive and save for some shocks. I'll have to take off my lid and STB to run FS, but that's no biggie.
Anything else I should add to my initial list of tires, harnes, and sway bar?
Check this link
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Compar...ce=C&x=28&y=13
Tirerack has a lot of good information on competition tires, even offers to heat cycle them for you.
I'm sure Discount offers the same:
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di...pe=Competition
And they are both sponsors here as well!
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Compar...ce=C&x=28&y=13
Tirerack has a lot of good information on competition tires, even offers to heat cycle them for you.
I'm sure Discount offers the same:
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di...pe=Competition
And they are both sponsors here as well!
Originally Posted by Cal
Forget all the other stuff and put your money into a set of Konis!
If you get the koni's, throw on some good rubber and a big front sway bar. I am currently using the 35mm with the stock rear. It works quite well together.
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How is the durability of the Koni's on a daily driver? I'd think pretty good since they come on the 1LE cars.
A friend told me that a shifter knocks me out of stock class, is this true? If so I'm not going to worry about running in one particular class, and just try to gain some experience.
A friend told me that a shifter knocks me out of stock class, is this true? If so I'm not going to worry about running in one particular class, and just try to gain some experience.
Originally Posted by Ackattack1
How is the durability of the Koni's on a daily driver? I'd think pretty good since they come on the 1LE cars.
A friend told me that a shifter knocks me out of stock class, is this true? If so I'm not going to worry about running in one particular class, and just try to gain some experience.
A friend told me that a shifter knocks me out of stock class, is this true? If so I'm not going to worry about running in one particular class, and just try to gain some experience.
The shifter will knock you out of F-stock (unless there was a rule change that I've not seen yet).
Have fun!
Originally Posted by Ackattack1
I'll be running in FS for now. I have an extra set of 16x8 camaro wheels. What tires should I get? I was thinking the Kumho tires...but I don't remember which ones were better. I also figure I'll get a 5 pt. harness and a front sway bar to be fairly competitive and save for some shocks. I'll have to take off my lid and STB to run FS, but that's no biggie.
Anything else I should add to my initial list of tires, harnes, and sway bar?
Anything else I should add to my initial list of tires, harnes, and sway bar?
FYI, looking at your sig, there are a bunch of things that technically keep you out of FS. the FRA, ported TB, MAF screen, and shifter all all mods that would bump you to ESP. The car can be competitive there too, and it's up to you if you want to try and run FS like that. I frankly wouldn't care much @ local event, but you might want to mention that to the other guys before they think you're up to something......
As for setting the car up for FS. Easy. 35mm front bar, shocks, wheels and tires.
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yeah, I was planning to return the car to stock to run FS, but I can't live with the stock shifter, so I guess I'll run ESP or SM. I'm thinking of getting some sub frame connectors.
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Originally Posted by Ackattack1
yeah, I was planning to return the car to stock to run FS, but I can't live with the stock shifter, so I guess I'll run ESP or SM. I'm thinking of getting some sub frame connectors.
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Results matter. Talk is cheap. We are miles beyond the success anyone else has had with the 4th gens, and C5, C6, C7 Corvettes,
10 SCCA Solo National Championships, 2008 Driver of they Year, 2012 Driver of Eminence
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