Building up a domestic car for auto X

[LVApex]

If you've never driven in an autocross, put the wrench down now. Take the car, what ever it is, in as near stock condition and run a handfull of events with it. This will not only give you valualbe experiance as a driver, but it will also give you a baseline as to how your choosen car performs. BUT! remember this, in your first year... there is by far more time to be gained by driving then there is by modifiying the car. Meaning, and I mean no disrespect, that no matter what car you end up using, in the first year, it wont be the car thats making you slow.

But any way, for car recomendations.... Depends on the class and your Cash flow.

If you like tweak and tune cars, STS and ST2 are easily the cheepest classes to run, Right now the 89 Civic SI is the top dog in STS, and there is a battle between the miata and the 88 CRX Si in ST2. If you really want to tweak the car, Street mod may be for you... but that class can get very expensive Very quickly if you want to be compeditive. Right now it seems that BMW M3's and RX7's are the cars of choice here. CSP is pretty much just Miatas, with a few MR2-spiders. ESP has traditionally been the "American Muscle" class, but The EVO 8's have been doing pretty well there too...

Have fun with what ever you end up with, because after all thats the point.

(I run a 2001 Civic EX in STS... its not a fast car by any means, but it is a fun car)

[flatlander757]

Well I'll actually be getting my license back this friday

I figure it will be cheapest and most competitive in F-stock class... I need new shocks so I'll be getting those upgraded, and a front swaybar at the same time and I'll just stick to that class for a while.

Thanks for the help guys!