Howdy,
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Scott M. Stone wrote:
> My Rx7 had 124,000 miles on it when the water seals blew. I had the
> engine rebuilt, new turbos, a bunch of other stuff. the pre-cat on the
> car (Rx7s have a pre-cat and a main cat, at least starting in 1986 i
> believe.. my 88 had one too...) was very plugged, as they tend to get
> after 124k. My mechanic put on a down-pipe to replace the precat, which
> is a fairly common thing to do on these cars. Does this automatically
> disqualify the car from "stock" even though it's still smog-legal in this
> configuration? My mechanic is also recommending a new computer for the
> thing, he says mine is running the car a bit too rich and it could use a
> new one.. he wants to put in a 16-bit programmable FCON that can control
> boost and stuff. IIRC that puts the car into *mod* since it alters the
> boost... is that still the case?
Yeah, both are still illegal for stock. In ASP, I don't think you can do
anything to the boost controllers, but I don't know for sure.
> Now, that said, i haven't raced in 9 years, i'm not going to be beating
> anyone. Would people be upset if i ran in SS-Novice with this car (it has
> street tires, stock size on stock rims) or should I just go with
> ASP-Novice? even though i haven't done any suspension work.. i'm
> concerned that there's no way to be competitive in ASP without doing a lot
> more work to the car...
Well, you're kinda saying two things here... On the one hand you're
saying "hey, I'm new, I'll suck anyway, so will anyone really care that I
have a minor illegality problem with my car?" and on the other you're
saying "Hey, I don't wanna run in ASP because I won't be competitive".
Those two statements kinda disagree.
If you don't end up doing the boost altering, I'd say ASP would make
sense. Your car will be down compared to the ASP/SS running in ASP z06's,
but probably not enough so that in a novice class you wouldn't have a good
shot.
If you want to do the boost altering, run in SM2 (assuming its illegal in
ASP like I think it is).
If you want to run in stock, get a new precat and stock computer.
Honestly though, you'll be running against essentially the same z06's
you'd be running against in ASP...
Mark
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