Please tell me no SFR F-body owners actually bought a $440 front sway bar
for autocrossing. I currently have 3 sway bars for my F-body: The OEM POS
front bar(30mm I think),the 32mm 1le bar, and the huge and heavy 35mm Addoco
bar (Some of you saw me carrying it around at Divisionals. read=HEAVY).
Total investment in sway bars= $130. ($80 for the 32mm 1le bar and $50 for
the 35mm bar). So for me, the cost of having multiple bars is not an issue.
For my car thou a front sway bar change was neccesary in order to keep up
with the faster 1le car, without it I would be constantly struggling just
to keep up with my other compeitors.
I do think there should be some limitations on shocks/struts in Stock
classes. Only two adjustments with no resivors should be more than adequete
for a stock car. IMO those high $$$ penske shocks have no place in a low
cost stock class. And revalving you current shocks isn't that expensive,
Shoktek charges $75 each and Bilstein USA charges $50 each and has a 2 week
turn around time. I had my Bilsteins revalved and the end price was still
cheaper than the double adjustable Koni's.
Andy Badertscher
-----Original Message-----
From: Smokerbros@aol.com
To: marka@telerama.com; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Sent: 7/9/01 6:41 AM
Subject: Re: Stock Classes (was: Cheap Gas)
In a message dated 7/9/01 6:23:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
marka@telerama.com writes:
> Its not an ideal world though, and front swaybars are relatively
> inexpensive.
Escept that some people have 3-4 bars @ a couple hundred dollars each.
One
desirable F-body bar is $440.00
> I haven't seen good data that indicates that weight == cost for
alternate
> wheels. If the goal is to keep costs down, I think this is a poor
> approach. And with CCW's and the like only costing $400/each max or
so,
> we're again not talking about saving a heck of a lot of money.
I disagree, the lighter wheels almost always cost substantially more.
Besides, if there is no real advantage (weight), there is no incentive
to
spend the big bucks.
> one of these are workable except maybe A), and that has the same
problems
> as C). Limit the adjustments and now you've gotta spend more on
re-valving
> / having alternate shocks. The only way you're gonna fix this is to
have
> a claiming rule at divisionals and above, but without a series points
> championship it wouldn't work all that well IMHO.
Claiming is ugly and hard to make work. Even if you re-valve an allowed
shock, I doubt you'd be at $1500/corner on a Stock Miata (the price I've
been
told Penskes cost)
> Agreed, as long as you can still get rubber lines or provide a way for
>
If you have a car with no rubber brake hoses available, I'm guessing you
need
to buy another car.
CHD
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