Hmm, I've been wondering this also. If you find out
the answer please tell me...
I do note:
1) It isn't clear whether the MR2-S or '01 Miata will
be the car to have in BS. A lot might depend on the
Miata's available option packages, which haven't been
set in stone yet - will it have 15" or 16" wheels? are
the rumors of bigger brakes true? What does the torque
curve of the new Miata motor look like? To 6-speed or
not to 6-speed? ABS or not?
2) If you can take your beating like a man(!) for a
year, there would seem to be a good case for moving
the M1 1.8's to CS (or whatever it's called) in '02.
Park it for a year?
3) Can you get a trailer hitch for the MR2-S? - if not
you are going to need a trailer to put it on, and a
truck to pull the trailer.
It'll be kind of sad to watch this car fade away: no
ABS, no traction control, manual steering - i.e. *you*
get to drive the car. Nothing else new has neither PS,
ABS or TC.
Craig
'00 Focus ZX3
--- "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com> wrote:
> Here's my problem. Lucy's competitive days are
> numbered. If she had any
> chance at Nationals, this would be it, but we're not
> going, and that's just
> the way it is.
>
> It would seem a somewhat logical move would be to
> just get an MR-2 Spyder,
> except that a new car, or even a newer car, is just
> not an option. Plus,
> hello, how are you supposed to fit anything in that
> budget Boxster.
>
> Lucy's going to have to get her little butt kicked
> next year, which I
> actually deem as a "good thing." I think a year in
> humility lessons (not
> that I ever seem to miss out on this experience)
> would be quite beneficial
> long term.
>
> So, I'm resigned to the possibility that next year
> will not be a fast year
> for either of us. It will be instead a year to learn
> to really drive the
> best I can with what I have, as I think the best
> scenario, learning wise, is
> to put yourself in a situation where you have to
> struggle a little bit.
> Given that, here are the options:
>
> A) Accept that we really have no chance, leave
> everything as is.
>
> B) Order a new set of Konis, to at least try to be
> competitive, or at least
> closer to it, and to possibly increase the fun
> factor. According to various
> sources, Konis DO get tired, eventually. I've had
> them on the car for over
> 60,000 miles. Lucy is my daily driver.
>
> C) Revalve the current set to make them possibly
> even better than they were
> out of the box. This was my intention last year, but
> then I found a ride in
> an MR-2 and tabled that plan.
>
> Now I'm wondering if now it would be even worth
> options B or C. On the one
> hand, I think it would make Lucy *possibly* faster
> (but you never really
> know - it's never as easy as just adding some new
> part), but on the other,
> the MR-2 Spyder and new Miatas could be so much
> faster, it might not even be
> worth the effort. But then again, if it just helps a
> little bit, even
> mentally, maybe I'd still be close enough to at
> least keep trying. When I DO
> get that competitive car, whenever that is, I will
> have improved as a driver
> in the interim. Well, that's just my theory.
>
> Anyway, any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you much!
>
> Katie K.
>
> P.S. I cannot tell you how much I LOVE Golden Gate
> Fields. I am so glad that
> we're back there again!
>
>
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