Autocross

buy a miata... strip it down... leave the mustang unmolested?

im not talking hardcore either... miata's are pretty cheap... and easier to axc with...

You don't need anything! Just up the pressures on your street tires and you are good to go! If you are just going a couple times a year, I wouldn't worry about spending the coin on seperate tires and everything, unless you are talking about wanting to run R-compound tires (v710, a6s05's and the like)

I'm an avid autocrosser, my vbgarage is linked below if you want to see what I'm running

http://www.wpg-autox.org/forums/vbgarage.php?do=view&id=403

If you want to know anything specific, or how an event works, or anything like that feel free to ask

Man don't buy into the hype about what you HAVE to have....all you really need are good grippy tires. You can't expect to really see what you or your car are capable of with typical radials. After that, some good lowering springs would be a great start along with subframe connectors if you don't have them, a strut tower brace, and at least some really nice brake pads (no autozone cheapies...braking is more important than acceleration when it comes to autocross/road racing). After that, a decent set of adjustable shocks/struts and upper/lower control arms in the rear will really give your car some nimble ability.

At that point, you haven't really broke the bank and the mods you've done thus far don't turn your car into a racecar by any stretch of the word, and you're still plenty streetable and probably more comfortable driving than you were to start with. This is where you decide how serious you wanna get, and then after that i'd say pick between Griggs or Maximum Motorsports (i'd pick Griggs just out of preference) and throw the whole catalog at your car....next thing you know you'll be smoking high dollar German rides on the road courses.

Oh, and autocross is really cool but sorry, it can't hold a candle to road racing....nothing like pegging the tach going full throttle down a straight and then hitting the twisties and really getting a full range of driving. Some autocross setups have some decent straight aways but nothing like a lot of road courses.

Even if you did get pretty much everything that MM has to offer for handling, your car would still be plenty streetable, although might be a bit of a rougher ride on city streets. Road racing doesn't have to mean you have an all out dedicated racecar. Pretty much all tracks have days for anyone to race on the track.

As for the most beneficial things....in order of most important i would say 1) better tires 2) better brakes 3) better shocks/struts (unless you have those). Even with stock control arms and otherwise totally stock suspension, if you've got good tires and good brakes to slow you down, a good set of adjustable shocks will make the car grip a lot better than stockers.

the best mod you could do is a trip to driving school, imo

Woodrow said:

the best mod you could do is a trip to driving school, imo

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Yes! I took the local WSCC driving school, and the EVO stage 1 & 2 schools this year, and they helped me FAR more then any mod could have made

Worth every penny