MoD

Let me lend one more bit of food for thought. If you begin to modify your car for the track and you build a really stiff suspension with solid everything, stiff springs, and shocks like (MCS, JRZ, Motons etc) you run the risk of things breaking easy on unforgiving streets. I think I am probably one of the last people who truly club raced their street car somewhat successfully. From 06-08 I was club racing a J stock 996 GT3 (it was even a B car before the letters got switched around). The car had AC, full interior, and was daily driven. I also club raced it a lot. It was kinda neat sitting in the pits with my radio playing and AC on waiting to go out. However, I ended up hitting a series of potholes going about 75-80mph here in Chicago, something in the suspension broke and the car snapped around on me. I hit a curb and rolled the car into a tree..... One second I was going straight, the next second I was rolled over on the side of the road thankful to be alive.

It was quite a learning moment for me. It is ok to have a street/track car if you are doing a couple events a year like some folks have said, but if you start to modify the car to be a true track car (especially when you start to play with the suspension a lot) you should probably stop driving it on the street and make it a track only car (or sell it and buy a dedicated track car). Now my track toy is only that, a track car. Just some food for thought from someone who went very extreme with the street/track car thing and almost got himself killed!

Martin S.

Horrifying.