HDDP I really appreciate your information. It is very advantageous for me to stay in the D stock class as the Crossfire competes very well. There is a handicapping system for Solo called PAX that corrects your times based on the car class you are driving. It is supposed to show who is the "best autocrosser" regardless of your car class. In the first race this year I placed 3rd in the PAX out of 39 drivers being beaten by a Subaru WRX STI and a Miata with DOT R compounds. With the typical 2 second gain on a 60 second course from R compound tires I would have won PAX easily. Being in Montana and the NorPac Division (Wa, Or, Mt, ID, Alaska, Northern Ca, NV) there are not many cars in my class so my goal is to win the PAX each race. Nationally BMW 3 series cars dominate the class, but I think that the Crossfire competes very well if it has R compound tires. If I went to D stock prepared with all 18 inch rims then my PAX correction would be much higher and I would essentially finish in the same PAX standing even with a 2 second better overall time. The good thing about D stock prepared is that it allows for many more other modifications such as ECU upgrades, more intake and exhaust upgrades, etc... All I have now are K&N filters and a Flowmaster muffler with the stock tips welded back on.

 

I think I had a mini stroke. My muffler is a Magnaflow not a Flowmaster.

 

Don't feel bad if a WRX beat you... Even though those cars are butt ugly, they are quick as heck and nearly impossible to beat with a Crossfire.

Like I said, I am not real hip to the rules for solo... But I feel your pain... I'm having similar issues with SCCA T3 category with the Crossfire... Even though I helped get the car classed in T3, now I come to find out that I've done too many mods to run in the class.

Now it's down to waiting for the car to become old enough (5 years) to have it classed in "improved touring".

Maybe we should move this thread to the racing section...

 

firstly HDDP... you know things online particularly chatting/blogging can be misconstrued... so why?
in some sense you are a neighbor... cyber-neighbor so to speak...


HDDP, as i said in a prior threads, you are the most transparent, contributing and valuable member here at XFF.org (i am certain everybody here would agree)...
i remain a Gentleman and apologize for not expressing myself more clearly for your mind. Again i thank you for the XF knowledge and XF motivation you've bestowed upon me... and should you move on to another ride... the crossfireforum.org would lose its largest pool of knowledge... well... until the someone with the same passion gets the gumption to seriously race the XF.


wow!

M. JOSHUA MORRIS

 

by the way gotcha in that context here in NEW YORK means...

" sorry, me da stupid one " not you.


sorry and now i am a DPI... anyone can find the meaning of this acronym through the search bar above...