FatCow posted:

Our club is pretty lax about mods. As long as you aren't blatantly cheating people don't really care. There are some people that are serious about stock class but it's pretty easy to keep your car in stock if you want it to be in stock. Out of 6-7 CSP cars I think only one or two are actually CSP legal. Almost all the cars have depowered racks or airbags removed without swapping the whole dash, engine swap without the wiring harness swap, etc. Then again we're not a SCCA club which I think has a lot to do with it. (We use SCCA classing/most of their rules though) I don't think anyone's ever been protested since I've started doing it. The closest we've gone is letting novices know that their turbo'd cars don't qualify for H-stock anymore.

If you're in autocross solely for the driving you'll get tired of it quickly due to the short seat time. It's also largely a social event, there is lots of time to hang around and talk to other car people about cars.

We tend to have a lot of fast courses, the ones I linked weren't even our fastest of the season. There were a few 3rd gear in a CSP Miata courses (with r-comps which I didn't have last year). However, our sites are unused airports so you have to really *really* gently caress up to hit something hard.

This year we only had one incident, a s2k broke a sway bar link in the middle of a slalom, or tore the mount off the control arm and went into some brush.