I'm going to be autocrossing my car locally for the entire season this year(did 4 events last year and got hooked). Making this thread to track progress/modifications done/etc.
As you may know the entire class structure of the SCCA stock classes is fixing to possibly change in the near future. This year I am not going to be competitive... I'm starting off with some 400 TW Goodyear Eagle GT all season tires... the plan is to burn them off this year, buy a second set of wheels and two sets of tires for next year. One of the potential changes is allowing a +/- 1 inch in diameter of the wheels from stock... which would allow me to run 16x6.5(which I would prefer to run for autocross for tire cost reasons). Whether this change goes through or not will dictate what I buy.
I'm going to be running the car locally in the HS class in our "tire index" for this year.
There was some internal debate about going to STF or not, decided against it because I don't want to lower the car... Especially after having to plow through a bunch of snow this past winter... much lower and I'd possibly be stuck. Plus with the proposed rules for the "street" class to replace "stock," that should take care of making a very daily driveable Mazda3 that is somewhat reasonably competitive.
Onto the car:
It's a 2009 Mazda3 i-touring value... with zero added options except for the IT-V package. No sun roof, no spoiler, no 6-disc player, no auto dim rear view mirror, etc. The IT-V package was a 2.0L, 5spd, with 17x6.5" wheels and fog lights.
At the very last event that I ran last year, I managed to nail a cone into the passenger side fog light, which broke it. So that is one thing I needed/wanted to take care of before the new season started. It was also time to do front brakes.
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As you may know the entire class structure of the SCCA stock classes is fixing to possibly change in the near future. This year I am not going to be competitive... I'm starting off with some 400 TW Goodyear Eagle GT all season tires... the plan is to burn them off this year, buy a second set of wheels and two sets of tires for next year. One of the potential changes is allowing a +/- 1 inch in diameter of the wheels from stock... which would allow me to run 16x6.5(which I would prefer to run for autocross for tire cost reasons). Whether this change goes through or not will dictate what I buy.
I'm going to be running the car locally in the HS class in our "tire index" for this year.
There was some internal debate about going to STF or not, decided against it because I don't want to lower the car... Especially after having to plow through a bunch of snow this past winter... much lower and I'd possibly be stuck. Plus with the proposed rules for the "street" class to replace "stock," that should take care of making a very daily driveable Mazda3 that is somewhat reasonably competitive.
Onto the car:
It's a 2009 Mazda3 i-touring value... with zero added options except for the IT-V package. No sun roof, no spoiler, no 6-disc player, no auto dim rear view mirror, etc. The IT-V package was a 2.0L, 5spd, with 17x6.5" wheels and fog lights.
At the very last event that I ran last year, I managed to nail a cone into the passenger side fog light, which broke it. So that is one thing I needed/wanted to take care of before the new season started. It was also time to do front brakes.
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