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Originally Posted by ArthurS
Some people actually race for competitivly and for points. By going up in class puts you against sometimes faster and better drivers which can kink your odds a bit.
Like me, I would prefer to be in D-stock, but my endlinks and futur mods put me into STX. Or Evan for example, who is now in SU just because of his trunk.
I am happy to be out there and improve on my driving skills, but eventually, I would like to become competitive.
(Correct me if I am wrong on any of this)
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That's just about right.
Evan's trunk isn't the only thing that takes him out of STX tho... STX requires stock clutch/flywheel, no boost mods, and prolly some other stuff that Evan's got.
I've been autocrossing for about 4 years. The 1st few years I was plenty content on running for fun and to learn how to drive faster. This is my first attempt at running a full season with one organization, so I'd like to stay in STX for the rest of the season, then consider if I can afford to do all the things I'd need to do to be competative in a higher class. Unfortunately to compete with Dean up in SM, I think I'll need bigger brakes, coil-overs, better engine managment and some more driver skill.
So that's like $5000 in parts... and I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be able to buy driver skill...
Regarding the UTEC: It's a cool setup, but I wouldn't say it's the same deal as AccessECU or ECUTek. People go with the reflashes because they don't want to have to constantly futz with the setup. Granted a there are a lot of maps that you can download for the UTEC, and potentially the UTEC will mean you can squeeze every last bit out of your car, but I'd rather have a powerful map for my car made up by Shiv, with a solid margin of saftey built in, and be able to flash it once and forget about it. Am I potentially giving up some power? Yeah. But I won't have to think about it, or deal with "fixing" my maps for cold weather, or a weekend in the Bay, or anything. Having dealt with the EEPROM emulators here at work on the slot machines, I know they can require maintainence, usually right when you have a a deadline coming up too.