[RICK LAKE]

Fullchat289 Allen first off forget about trying to outurn an allwheel drive car. I have 2 kids that live behind my house, 1 has a WRX car with hoosier tires, the other is an EVO car with the same tires. WRX puts out 580hp at the wheels. The evo is in the low 500's. BHoth have spent 20K plus for custom differentials(Quieffs) the spelling may be wrong but the lockup of all tires works and a special transfercase with a different internal setup. They both run between 1-3 seconds faster than my cobra with 550 hp.
We had one run at one of the last R&G in St.Loius 2 -3 years ago and ran times as fast as the striker cars. Car pulled 1.2 g's on the course with a G-Force meter in the car.
If you want to get serious about autocrossing, you need to find the rules out and what class you want to run in. Most places are a 200 wear on tires, exhaust under 100 dbs. rollbar, any motor or trans combo. This is for street class.
I don't know what springs you are running but something in the 500-550 lbs rating to start. Either a custom set of shocks or used the double adjustable QA1 shocks. power steering a must. Talk to Bob at ERA about building a car with P/S. Mine had it done at ERA years ago.
Racing seat fron Kirkley to keep your body in location and not be fight the car and your weight sliding around in the car. Go to a couple of driver schools and then polish your new skills. Check the weights on all 4 corners, with yiour weight in the drivers seat. Thrust angle of the car. wheel alignment. Bumpsteer. making sure the front tires turn correctly
. The other big thing is the drive train, power output from the motor, matching ratios of the trans and reaend to keep the max power going to the ground. This is a good start. Rick Lake