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Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car, plus a spare shell
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Thursday, February 07, 2013 - 04:17 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Allan Langford wrote on Thursday, February 07, 2013 - 07:58 am:
also the more you cut it up the less events you can do without being in open classes... unless your wallet is very fat coming last every-time is going to suck
Allan- I get it. And I agree. The recent WTAC rule changes have caused me to pause and think about what I am doing. I have no inclination to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to compete at WTAC, but if some of the local competitions follow suit then there could be issues.
I have found that as I get older, I seem to enjoy working on the car as much if not more than driving it. More honestly, I don't enjoy driving it if I am not getting faster, or the car is not doing what I want it to do.
I much prefer 'lapsrint' events to 'time attack' format. 5 hot laps at a time are better for me than a single fast blast. Better yet are private test days where I get lots of laps to try stuff.
Andrew- I don't think Allan meant anything personal by his comments, and I welcome his, yours and everyone's advice, comments, suggestions and offers. I really like seeing posts on this thread.
I keenly follow a few other build threads looking for inspiration.
Unfortunately the nature of my life means I have fits and spurts of both time and money. Like most people outside the boardroom, I have more time than money. This means that making huge (reliable) power is generally beyond my capabilities. Making body mods, adding lightness (man I love that quote!), and 'parts changing' are stuff that are labour intensive and therefore are things I can afford to do. WHere I have to engage the services of professionals, or buy expensive items, I try to ensure it is a 'do it once' proposition to allow headroom for the future.
Just to remind everyone of the evolution of this car:
I bought a track car so I could try and keep out of trouble with the law, after some trouble with the law in the past. Initially I took the shiny go fast gear off my street car and put it on this. I investigated IPRA, only to discover that you must drive a pre 1985 australian delivered junker to be allowed to compete (not exactly accurate but seems to be the line of thinking from CAMS). Andrew got me interested in building a Sports Sedan and I started work along those lines. Alas, I keep moving to areas with absolutely no Sports Sedan Competition. SO I decided to just do what ever I wanted (mods and events). SA has few events to enter, so I fell into Time Attack and so long as I am way down the bottom of the field no one cares what I do to my car. WTAC rules may change that in the future if they filter down.
I will have to choose a path one day, until then I will keep doing my own thing.