SCCA Classifications, Anyone an expert on it here??? Options

[naro914]

Hey guys,
I need to figure out what class Huey really should be in. We've been running GT2 for the hillclimbs, but there's no way he should be in GT2.

Believe it or not, other than safety (cage, seats, harness) and minor tweaks, the car is fairly stock. The biggie is the 3.2 engine and steel GT fender flares.

- It's got bigger front torsion bars and rear springs, but those are usually fairly free.
- Brakes are bigger
- Trans is stock
- bumpers are FG, but the rest of the body panels are steel or stock - including roof.

its fully street legal and registered. I just can't see how it's GT2 (other than I guess the engine)...which is the same class as a Porsche Cup Car!! seriously... a sequential gearbox 997 cup from the factory is the same class as a street legal and registered 914???

thoughts or advice? What would it be in SOLO, or Time Trial? Or Club racing?? The hill climbs accept classes from most of the above...

Thanks

[gms]

Like you are seeing and as those here have written, race car preparation rules are generally based on what displacement a car was manufactured with (for the production classes)

The SCCA usually puts cars in classes according to performance in stock configuration.
When the 914 was first introduced in 1970 it was placed in the (now defunct) C-Production class. Back then the 914's nemesis was the Datsun 240Z which has a stock displacement of 2.4L (and it is water cooled). 914/6s were only allowed to build higher compression engines and use more radical cams, unfortunately so were the Datsuns.

Most European manufacturers would build their engines to fit in the GT class of IMSA and FIA which required engine displacement to be under 2.0L (in 1970).

I have seen 914world members successfully compete in SCCA but for the most part they were running purpose built race motors of original displacement with every legal enhancement to the chassis and suspension.

I have heard that NASA (http://www.nasaproracing.com) has a class based on dyno HP, this is nice because you don’t have to build high strung engine of a certain displacement.