[s-cars] UrS as a Purpose Built Track Car?

[Taka Mizutani]

This was basically my point without saying it- a car like a Miata is much,
much cheaper to run at the track and if you ball it up, it doesn't cost that
much to get another one and start over again. A type 44 is going to require
a good amount of work to make it into a track car, then if you ball it up,
you have to do that much more work when you start over again.

For the most part, everyone that does a lot of track time gravitates toward
the same cars for the same reasons- easy parts availability, low replacement
cost, huge aftermarket, good speed-to-cost ratio, etc. That's why everyone
is running a Miata, E30 BMW, GT3, etc.

If I start going to the track regularly, the BMW will probably get sold and
I'll have to get another Miata or I'll look for a Spec E30/944.

Taka


On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Martin Kozaczek <mkozaczek at gmail.com>wrote:

> Don't forget to consider opportunity costs as compared to sunk costs.  A 92
> S4 although 'free' because it's owned by the poster could be sold, parted
> or
> otherwise trade for another car or money with which one can buy something
> else.
>
> Having spent a fair amount of time on the track a few years ago in a miata
> (there I said it) and having owned many audis and a few BMWs I would
> strongly urge anyone who wants to get out on the track to start off in a
> Miata.  Honestly, for the money that car is one of the best ways to learn
> to
> drive on a track.  The combination of light weight, RWD, affordable parts,
> many aftermarket alternatives and ultimately one of the more competitive
> racing classes it's hard to do much better.
>
> Having owned many audis, big and small, fast and slow and having played a
> fair amount on the track I have to put my vote in the camp of the Miata.
>
> Just my 2-cents
>
> =)
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:44 AM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I thank ya'll are also fergettin' the "because it's there" factor. As in,
> > in
> > a sense Calvin already has the car.  The question is, for a track day
> car,
> > can you make it into something fun that won't be expensive to run for
> > cheap?  My guess (w/rt Herr J) is it may be cheap getting in, but it
> won't
> > be cheap to run without some significant up front expenditures to help
> > preserve the tahrs and breaks...
> >
> > And it most certainly will be different.  I suppose if you *must* be a
> > front
> > runner in your RG, it may not be your best bet, but if you can work your
> > way
> > into an open spot of the track it wouldn't be too bad.  I just fear
> running
> > costs, but mebee that's just me.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Peter Schulz <p.schulz at verizon.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Taka:
> > >
> > > I think you are missing the point.
> > >
> > > sometimes its fun to be different, otherwise everyone would be driving
> > > Miatas or GT3s.
> > >
> > > Look at what Hadyn Taylor did to an unassuming former rally car from
> > > Sprongl's 4 star racing.
> > > http://www.motorgeek.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29308
> > >
> > > -Peter
> > >
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