Ah, ok. Thanks!! I read your post in that thread. However I'm still curious about the setup. Am I correct in seeing a huge roll bar with custom mounting points welded into the frame with splined ends going into fabbed arms? Damn...that's not just a little custom work. Also you mentioned relocated shock towers? I see the modification in the front...Wow...That thing must be outrageously fun on a good road course!!
The series that it was built for is long since defunct. Along with that so goes the eligibility of the car for that series..UNLESS the car as built happens to fit into another classification. Many times cars built to Pro series dont have an applicable spot in the club racing ranks.
Improved Touring is probably the most applicable place for the MX6(note I didnt say this MX6). Id say a lot of changes would have to be made for this car to fit into IT(cage, swaybars, engine, braces, etc)
Its generally a bad idea to buy a racecar that doesnt have a series to run. A car like that has Zero worth. Cant "learn" on it because at a certain point youll want to compete and youll want to in that car, but you cant. So youll have to sell it.... but to whom? Who would want a car that cant be raced anywhere? Catch 22. Could retrofit it to fit the rules of whatever series you choose..as long as the retrofitting doesnt cost an arm and a leg (Monies that you could have used to just buy a car that fit the series from the begining)
Maybe a random Mazda Dealership would find some value in restoring/displaying such a classic?
That's actually a good thought. There is a Honda dealership near my house that has one of the first model Civics from the 70's. This thing is in pristine condition and has 8??,??? on the odometer.
This car was bought close to a year ago and we haven't heard anything since. Not even a "We got stoned in it" story, nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Not even a "Hey I made it street legal again"
Well it can be used in some scca races without any thing done to it, so there are races it can run in.
Maybe small new safety rules, but nothing thats big to modify.
Man I would even like to just run it once a month at the Solo 2 autocross, it would scream around the cones.
Could run it in Street Modified , Prepared class F. Possibly.
Its not enough just to say, it could without checking. Thats the first thing you do when looking for a used racecar. You already have an idea of the class you want to race in and then you look for the car that fits that class, not the other way around. Its cart before the horse logic.
-Street Mod, Bzzzt. Subframe connectors illegal, needs back seats, cage is too much weight. Car would be uncompetative even locally
-DSP, Hell no. needs full interior, Cage is too much weight, engine is illegal, brakes are illegal, suspension to chassis mounting points illegal, I can go on and on.
-F prepared...no chance. Ill have to check the rules for turbos in F-prepared but if I remember right turbos are a no-go. Manual rack is a hinderance. Suspension is way outclassed.
-can run it in E mod or for that matter A mod , but at that point you are just running the car and nothing more.
I already did Gavin, don't be so negative.
In prepared class F, the mx6 gt turbo is listed.
Page 168-191 Prepared Class F, I don't see why it wouldn't pass the tech.
Its all good man just running the car would be fun!
Who cares if your winning.
Cool. That saves me looking through the regs for prepared.
I wish it was negative, but it isnt. Its just a simple progression of logic that I see as missing here. We have gone from A racecar(cirquit car) to trying to shoehorn it into ...F Prepared? Tell me this whole train of thought doesnt seem well thought out.
Horses for courses.
And then the justification for buying this thing is "just to run it"? No doubt you can run it, but why get a car that is so over the top (for anyone here and I include myself to that list) just to run? Its like buying the space shuttle "just for a few flights". Doesnt seem well thought out.
A year later we can speculate where it might be run, but this is fantasy. The reality is someone bought the car without purpose in mind. It was over their heads and there it sits. Where is the fun in that?
PS: stock class for the MX6GT is G-stock. Street Prepared class is DSP
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