How Much Stress does AX'ing Put on your 914, Will it break a DD? Options

[ericread]

I have a nice little stock 74 914 2.0 that is my daily driver. Like I have mentioned many times before, I put about 15,000 miles a year of daily driving on her.

I have never AX'ed my 914, and I was wondering, how much stress does AX'ing put on your 914. And where are the main points of stress? I would imagine the transmission and rear CV joints would feel a lot of stress, along with the front suspension? And maybe some major tire scuffing?

So if I decided to casually AX, how much downtime should I expect to encounter? I would love to occasionally enter an AX just to learn more about my car, but at what expense and level of downtime would I encounter?

And how much wear would I place on my transmission/CV joints/suspension/etc???

My thanks.

[Richard Casto]

Not much different than what has already been said, but IMHO...

* Extra wear on tires. Tire take the hardest hit.
* Hard launches and/or aggressive shifting can expose driveline issues (broken motor mounts, bad CV joints, etc) that you may not have noticed earlier, or may not encounter in normal DD.

The above are not specific to 914, but cars in general.

In general, well maintained cars should have no problem. Where I think people have problems is with cars that are not maintained so you have many more "weak links" that might fail vs. a well maintained car. I think an argument can be made that cars that are Autocrossed or even tracked periodically may be in better mechanical shape than other cars of similar vintage. This is because the other cars don't get the attention that an Autocross or Track car might. When was the last time anyone talked to you about changing their brake fluid? Something you do frequently with an Autocross/Track car and maybe never on the DD (for example). Just be religious when it comes to maintenance. You don't have to abuse your car to have fun or turn quick times.