Does anyone actually race with a "street" car?
05-02-2016, 10:50 PM
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Once you have designed and commissioned a custom bolt in/out cage you have eliminated 1/2 of the 'con' arguments 
But even if you could get that down to a 1 hour job thats still 2 hours that fly on the weekend 
You can dream about driving to and fro until dedicated tires really, really matters, then a trailer for the tires or...
But even if you could get that down to a 1 hour job thats still 2 hours that fly on the weekend You can dream about driving to and fro until dedicated tires really, really matters, then a trailer for the tires or...
05-03-2016, 02:32 AM
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The Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SCG 003 was designed to be a streetable race car.
05-04-2016, 12:41 AM
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My otherwise stock 996T Tip has run in our Porsche Club circuit sprints yearly for about 5 years now, most recently over the course of 3 days at the NZ Festival of Motor Racing. She's 14 years old but still quick enough after a mild upgrade, lapping within a few seconds of 991 GT3s on better tyres (her NT01s are almost 3 years old now) and typically finishing in the top 3 cars. But she is to remain primarily a road warrior so there is no cage in her future and once a year is about as much as I want to race her uncaged.
Instead of track weaponizing our P cars too much further, a bunch of us Porsche owners went shares in a pair of sub US$1500 DC2 Integras which we caged and race in a well-subscribed street spec series for older cars (2KCup - think Chumpcar or Lemons). Quali plus 2x 33 minutes races (one straight and one reverse grid), usually all on the same day. Plus a 1 hour Masters enduro and a 500 mile enduro per season. Huge grids of up to 42 cars on 2 mile circuits make for a lot of fun and action, a set of tires lasts a season, and a crash usually just means dropping less than one hundred on some panels from the local wrecker's yard.
Still can't resist continuing to race the Turbo once or twice a year but for developing racecraft at far less cost and risk, that cheap series does a great job.
Best of luck with finding your own approach over there.
Instead of track weaponizing our P cars too much further, a bunch of us Porsche owners went shares in a pair of sub US$1500 DC2 Integras which we caged and race in a well-subscribed street spec series for older cars (2KCup - think Chumpcar or Lemons). Quali plus 2x 33 minutes races (one straight and one reverse grid), usually all on the same day. Plus a 1 hour Masters enduro and a 500 mile enduro per season. Huge grids of up to 42 cars on 2 mile circuits make for a lot of fun and action, a set of tires lasts a season, and a crash usually just means dropping less than one hundred on some panels from the local wrecker's yard.
Still can't resist continuing to race the Turbo once or twice a year but for developing racecraft at far less cost and risk, that cheap series does a great job.
Best of luck with finding your own approach over there.
05-04-2016, 01:45 AM
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There are quite a few PCA club race cars that are or can be street legal.
But they suck so bad on the street that nobody bothers.
Most people trailer their club racers to the track anyhow. That way they can get them back home in pieces depending how the race goes.
A clubsport 997GT3 with full cage can run in PCA. Depending how competitive you want to be, you can leave most of the interior in it. It is about as close to running a factory street car off the showroom floor in competiton as you can get nowadays. Best compromise available.
But they suck so bad on the street that nobody bothers.
Most people trailer their club racers to the track anyhow. That way they can get them back home in pieces depending how the race goes.
A clubsport 997GT3 with full cage can run in PCA. Depending how competitive you want to be, you can leave most of the interior in it. It is about as close to running a factory street car off the showroom floor in competiton as you can get nowadays. Best compromise available.