cls6 track car by curtwill

3 minute(s) of a 48 minute read

picked up a couple parts cars...both 03 type s...one 6spd hit front and one auto hit rear so I have lots of spares now....one of them had this little gem (destined for the track car)

anybody need anything let me know...shipping will be a tad pricey as I am in Canada but the parts will be more than reasonably priced.

car will be running with chump in the 'exception class' (ec)...class created for cars that are valued over the 500 point base to the point where the lap penalty would be excessive either because the base value of the car is too high (acura cl) or the parts added to the car make the value too high (miata with a hardtop is considered 'ec')...there are other race series (lucky dog and world racing league) that are class based not value based...we will be doing a combination of events in all of these series...eventually the value will come down in Chump to the point where it can run as a regular classed car and I will remove the konis and run for points.

whule some of the cars that are wininng may be a bit 'tainted'...there are lots that are not...personally our b18b swapped eg civic is valued at 499 points so we take no laps...we have won several races (overall win not a class win) against 5.0 mustangs, e30 and e36 bmws, 240sx, rx7s miatas ect...it is not usually who is the fastest (our fastest laps are usually just barely in the top 10)...it is strategy and consistency that usually takes the checkered.

no value yet on cl...they may put an arbitrary value on it when i bring it out...rest assured it will be valued high enough to put it straight to 'ec'

the first race we ever did with out civic we had no values for anything...b16 swap, koni yellows, ect...car was given a value of $1030...meaning 53 penalty laps if we wanted to run for regular chump...but the race was 36 hours long so it carried a multiplier of 2.5...we ran with 133 lap penalty (spokane raceway)...finished 29th out of 50...first time out...if we had no penalty would have been 14th.

the trophies are cool (we have a few now) but they aren't the reason to do this...just trying to make a stab at building a reasonably fast car.

also the top 5 cars are impounded at the end of every race...up on jacks, wheels off hood open...anyone can check them out and protest things that don't look correct...it happens...car that finished 2nd behind us at Laguna Seca last summer was an e30 bmw from Minnesota, they had there ecu protested and were found to have an aftermarket chip...they were assessed the 8 laps for the value of the chip and bounced fron 2nd to 14th.

just want to have fun with it but also want to show up prepared to race...these things are far from easy to do well in.