There is a strong possibility of this being true. Like if you swapped out your lugs will probably put you in STX (I could be wrong about this, in which case you might be bumped to prepped or street prepped if you swapped them for S14 lugs), which will be very difficult nationally for a S13 but regionally you may not have hard competition.simmode1 wrote:I wanna start autocrossing, but it looks so intimidating to me! I feel like I wouldn't know where to drive! It looks like cones are just randomly strewn about! I can't really understand the track layout when looking at auto-x videos.
Where any of you guys like this when you first started? Is it the kinda thing were the line makes sense once you're actually in the car running the course?
And I wonder what class my S13 would be in? I'm scared I eff'd up royally years ago and put some mods that might put me in some rediculous class...
http://www.scca.com/documents/Solo_Rule ... _rules.pdfMr1der wrote:I know there's a link somewhere to the SCCA rulebook....
Ah, yea with that stuff you're either SM or Prepared. Check the rule book for specifics.simmode1 wrote:There's a group autocrossing really close by me on the 22nd. I'd love to go if I my S13's KA weren't in pieces at the moment.
Question: how do the tech guys at the track determine if certain things are legal for your class? For example: would they be able to determine if my KA had OEM mods like a 248/232 cam swap, J30 diff, J30/Q45 brakes or S14 intake manifold? Would this stuff be cheating if I didn't disclose it?
The scca rule book will tell you what cars run in which classes. Sit down during an afternoon/evening and give it a good look over.simmode1 wrote: What else would be in the class that I'd be driving in with these mods?
YUP, it was confusing as hell my first time out, I got went off course for my first run. The main thing that messes you up is trying to compete and win. If you just pace yourself and learn the car/course, you'll be good. But it definitely is confusing at first. It helps to have an instructor in the car because he'll give you hand signals showing you where to turn etc.simmode1 wrote:I wanna start autocrossing, but it looks so intimidating to me! I feel like I wouldn't know where to drive! It looks like cones are just randomly strewn about! I can't really understand the track layout when looking at auto-x videos.
Where any of you guys like this when you first started? Is it the kinda thing were the line makes sense once you're actually in the car running the course?
Oh man, tell me about it. Earlier this season I was taking a set of r-comps out for an initial heat cycling and while I was putting heat in the tires doing figure 8's I wasn't strapped in. Anyway, I tweaked the hell out of my back and for about half this season I've been in a rather large amount of pain each event. Luckily it's subsided quite a bit and I've not had any problems, but for about 7-8 events I was having to slam a bunch of motrin and try to turn off my brains pain sensing functions.Mr1der wrote:I need to heal my shoulder. RIght now it's still too tender to thrash my car around.
Yea, 5 points in both the Rolla and the MR2.Mr1der wrote:yeah....I don't wanna do that either. Anyone that says racing isn't physical is someone I don't feel safe driving with.
I assume you've got at least a 4 point in the rolla right?
I was like that a little bit... not intimidated, but confused.simmode1 wrote:I wanna start autocrossing, but it looks so intimidating to me! I feel like I wouldn't know where to drive! It looks like cones are just randomly strewn about! I can't really understand the track layout when looking at auto-x videos.
Where any of you guys like this when you first started? Is it the kinda thing were the line makes sense once you're actually in the car running the course?
And I wonder what class my S13 would be in? I'm scared I eff'd up royally years ago and put some mods that might put me in some rediculous class...
.... but what ever. Its an empty parking lot and they are only cones... What is going to happen? Most clubs have swiched to simply subtracting 2 seconds per cone, rather then punching you in the gut, so there is really not too much to lose other then the false belief that you are an amazing driver. 
Her and daddy had the worst sense of humor too... I was cracking jokes with everyone and they just sort of ignored me, like, "Who is this Corolla driving infidel talking to me?"93coupe wrote:Nobody should be scared. I visited Jim this weekend and got the pleasure of watching a very young girl beating on daddy's F430.
The Daddy ran a 44.9, the Daughter ran a 49.9, both got 5 runs a piece. My car's brakes started failing halfway through my first run and I logged a 39.3 on my one and only run of the day as it'd have been very unsafe to run the car any more. You can see in the video at the end where I'm viciously pumping the brakes to get the car to stop after I passed through the timing gate.Mr1der wrote:did you run a faster time than them?
Haha! That's awesome...flohtingPoint wrote:The Daddy ran a 44.9, the Daughter ran a 49.9, both got 5 runs a piece. My car's brakes started failing halfway through my first run and I logged a 39.3 on my one and only run of the day...Mr1der wrote:did you run a faster time than them?
i love those daysflohtingPoint wrote:The Daddy ran a 44.9, the Daughter ran a 49.9, both got 5 runs a piece.... I logged a 39.3 on my one and only run of the dayMr1der wrote:did you run a faster time than them?
I wish I had a separate caliper for my parking brake too =(93coupe wrote:Yeah, but he had two brake calipers per wheel in the back. Suck on that.
competition is fun though... i love driving the fully prepped ST civic against a full class of national trophy winnersflohtingPoint wrote:
On a side note, I'll be autocrossing an e-stock car this weekend in the Virginia Autocross Championship. Unluckily for me, my only r-comps for it are Hoosier R6's. Further unluckily for me, I'll be going against Ed Raymundo, who has been autocrossing since it was called StageCoachCrossing.
Apples and oranges. My car I'm borrowing is bone stock (none of the allowed things in stock are done to it, shocks, sways, etc) and all original parts from 1994 (where as anyone remotely serious about racing in stock refreshes everything on their car), on 205 R6's (drastically different than A6's) that are mounted to my pizza cutter MR2 wheels I have for club racing regulations. This is in no way in the vicinity of a prepped vehicle ripe for competing.PEZi720 wrote:competition is fun though... i love driving the fully prepped ST civic against a full class of national trophy winnersflohtingPoint wrote:
On a side note, I'll be autocrossing an e-stock car this weekend in the Virginia Autocross Championship. Unluckily for me, my only r-comps for it are Hoosier R6's. Further unluckily for me, I'll be going against Ed Raymundo, who has been autocrossing since it was called StageCoachCrossing.
