I bought my SS/TC last October, and have been slowly building it up this summer.. I intend to AutoX it soon. However, I was recently tuned and am now doubting my ability to keep the car within the cones, lol.. We'll see how things are when I get new tires, but at the moment anything higher than 50% throttle in 2nd gear is wheelspin city.. Doesn't bode well on a course that is 95% 2nd gear.

Thoughts?

 

We are not "tuned" but have deleted the muffler on our SCCA DS class Slowbalt SS.
We did shocks and alignment and seem to keep it between the cones pretty well on R compound tires.
FM

 

I looking at tuning for next year... and some other mods to make for a decent D street prepared. Softer tires (I've got toyo r1r's w/ a 140 treadwear rating) seem to help. Driving technique will be a bit of an adjustment... You'll have to squeeze the throttle until you're pretty straight. If you're pretty good at heel/toe, 3rd gear for faster sections may be an option for you. Realistically, autocross and road racing are disciplines where milder tunes (Proposed GM stage kit, superchips, and the like) will probably work a lot better because of the type of tires involved and the preparation of the track surface as opposed to a drag strip. Whatever you have, if you constantly work on "the nut behind the wheel", you'll work towards the results you want.

 

Very true, thanks for the comments. The beauty of AutoX is how it tends to eliminate the car and place more on the ability of the driver and his experience behind the wheel of said car.. You always find those people at each event that manage impressive times from a car that normally you wouldn't expect to be competitive, or manage times that others with the same car seem to be incapable of.

I need to focus less on the end goal and more on the process it takes to get there.. In this case, the process is learning my car and how to drive it at the edges of its capability.

 

TQ steer is already a problem for me on tighter tracks and I am stock. With a tune you will need to be carefull with the throttle.
I recommend turning the car back to stock (even sup) if you are a noob. Our cars stock is very forgiving and easy to drive.
Once modded they can be very, very fast. Like I found out first hand by chasing V8 M3's of the track with only a rear swaybar added. I can only imagine what a tune will do on a big track with flowing sweepers.

 

im going to go to hartland park and see how i do lol

 

please report back

 

i ran about 6 laps at my last auto-x and the first two laps were un-tuned...big mistake...un-tuned laps were around 51 second times, tuned laps were around 46-47 second laps...falken ze912's hawk pads injen plumbing and intake and catless DP...thing ran like a champ

 

I have superchips for the sole reason that I can go back to stock, and in DS when I autocross. I will have to try tuning sometime, but then that puts me into DSP where I will need more mods then a tune to be really competitive.