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Old 01-01-03, 11:11 PM
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Question auto-x stock class shocks?

What's my best bet? One friend said to get Koni adjustables because nobody ever checks, but I'd like to have a clear conscience, and as I understand it, that means no more than two positions.
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If your desire to stay in a stock class in Solo II than you are permited to change out your struts (not shocks there is a differene). However, they must retain stock mounting posistions. So any strut you want would be legal for stock comp.

Konis would be a good choice. That is what I did. You have to modify your front struts to accept them. I did a write up if you are curious.

http://pws.gamewood.net/~mb800/struts/struts.html

However, you cannot change your springs out to aftermarket. That will take you prepared.

Also, at the clubs I have raced at they do not really check your mods. You could hide a lot. However, in the sake of fairness most people do not play that way.

I am sure if you were competing at national levels though there would be a check on that.

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Old 01-02-03, 01:54 AM
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where you racing at? is there a link to your rule book? ill help scrutinize...
theres some funny things you can do sometime. I run under the mid-western console and my 90' GXL is a "C" class car. But in the rule book, it says 89-90 RX-7 non-turbo. So that also includes GTUs. That means i can bring my car to GTUs Spec and not get pointed..... or bumped to prepared...
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Most stock classes allow for upgrading to anything that was factory installed on the chasis at any point of its production run. LSD's, diff gearing, adjustable suspensions, heavier anti-sway bars, wider tires, stiffer springs, (you could get some vert springs) stock intake manifolds, (vdi if you can't run a ported motor) aluminum hood and the like are all fair game at that point. Most competitors aren't looking to hose the competition, but you can get away with a lot under most stock rule books.
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Originally posted by Jimmy325i
Most stock classes allow for upgrading to anything that was factory installed on the chasis at any point of its production run<snip>
Be carefull with this. As it's been explained to me, you need to update/backdate the whole kit and are not able to pick and choose from several different versions. For example, you couldn't get the 'vert springs and not the folding top (aside: interesting that nobody ever posts any information on the hard-top to 'vert conversion )
You would need to convert the whole car from base to GXL if you wanted to legally do the 5-lug swap and add power windows & rear wiper (though I don't know why you'd do that...)
Of course, I could be wrong.

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Hey, power windows add to the totall hp capacity of the car man! j/k

I could be thinking of a funky stock prepared class for the nhra too. I know there is one that allows all that stuff to be picked apart as long as it was offered from the factory.
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