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Anybody participate in autocross regularly?

overst33r

overst33r

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If so how much do you usually spend on tires and brakes? How frequent is basically what im asking ...and is the added expense worth the rush you get?
 
My friends that autocross buy decent street tires for a separate set of wheels once a season at maybe ~$500. They spend about ~$150 per season on brake stuff. This is on older domestic FWD cars - it can vary widely and this is on the ultra-cheap end of getting into the sport competitively...

 
When I had my Mazdaspeed, I purchased a set of tires/rims just for autox and then upgraded my front brakes. The tires/rims where around $1200 and the brakes where $1000 for rotors and calipers. They lasted me one season with events every few weeks for the summer. I'm sure I could have gotten another year out of the tires, but brakes depended on how much I drove regularly.
 
i used to auto-x a lot when i had my 240...i had a seperate pair of rims (used for like 200 bucks) and i would buy used tires for about $80/set....usually the tires were good enouigh (for me at least) for the entire season...sometimes i had to switch back to my dailys though. I had already put a lot into my brakes so really all i had to replace were the pads...once every year or so...$80...
 
haha, over at the lincolns online forum, a guy talks about autocrossing his 1980's town car - he took the front sway bar off, apparently it reduced understeer at low speeds (but made the car very "interesting" at high speeds, apparently he fell in the middle of the pack, but was a crowd favorite with a nearly 20 foot car rocking like a boat through corners.

Sounds like a good time.
 
Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
haha, over at the lincolns online forum, a guy talks about autocrossing his 1980's town car - he took the front sway bar off, apparently it reduced understeer at low speeds (but made the car very "interesting" at high speeds, apparently he fell in the middle of the pack, but was a crowd favorite with a nearly 20 foot car rocking like a boat through corners.

Sounds like a good time.
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haha thats hilarious...those things are like sponges on wheels...you dont even feel speed bumps in em
 
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