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Originally Posted by s1ngletracker
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Might be a little tough to pass a running AWD by as an $500 car, if it was NA then shouldn't be a problem and might not break or drink gas like crazy.
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Originally Posted by 1QUICK4
I will donate a GVR4 shell for a Mitsustyle Chump car 
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Serious $500 valuation problem here, they probably don't come up that much on Craigslist and to find 10 of them for around $500 or less would be hard.
You don't need some crazy fast car, it's more important to be reliable, which we haven't exactly been. If you show up with some crazy fast car, you aren't going to make any friends out there and you will eventually get penalized from winning by too much or sandbagging. Most of the cars out there are from the 80s or early 90s and are realistically putting down 80-150whp. There are some heavier cars out there putting down a bit more, but their weight keeps them fairly even or slower than the light lower power cars. There is a beat up SC400 automatic out there that I have no idea how they get by the $500 valuation and it is decently faster than everyone else in a straightline, but it breaks all the time and they have a hard time finding parts for it during races. There is also a stripped BMW 540i auto that just about everyone hates that eventually got put into a different class a couple races ago, then they tried to make it more legal and got back in for the Chumpionship, but it's extremely unreliable so the owner has been trying to sell it to focus on their other E30 chumpcars.
One word of warning, the teams that run the tracks around here are pretty fast and not because they have a lot of HP. There are a lot of BIR and BMW club instructors out there, ex SCCA drivers, ex Porsche cup drivers, ex Rally drivers, etc. We don't have any Spec E30 race series around here like in other parts of the country, so you see a lot of them in chumpcar too. It's a lot of fun regardless of if your running in the top 10 or not though.
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