Help with Tough Decision (memoirs of a track newb)

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Glen,  A good and sometimes great club race car does not always make a good DE car and visa versa.  Club race cars are built to certain specs to use every advantage for the class that they are intended to be raced in.   There may and probably are many modifications that could be made to the car to make the car a much better track car, but these modifications may put the car in a different race class that it won't be competitive in, or the modifications may not be allowed in the race series.  That is why some great DE track cars can't be club raced.

If you are not planning on racing for a number of years, buy a car that is good for DE.  There is no perfect race or DE car, they all have their weaknesses and faults.  It is a matter of finding the right car for  you.  You never know if you buy a track car today, will you have it 2, 5, 7 or 10 years from now?  Look around the paddock at any DE and ask those in the advanced run groups how long have they had their cars.

I learned high performance driving on a low HP car, and learned a great deal by being on track with much higher HP cars while being in the instructed run groups.  It made me work harder to achieve what higher HP and electronic nannies gave to other drivers.  Your choice to track a 993 was a great choice.  You had the advantage in learning how to drive in a car with out PCM but with ABS, and what is now in the lower end of the middle of the HP war.  Getting and learning on an SC will be a great learning experience for you.

I have said for the past number of years that it would be great if the club could purchase a bunch on SC's and 3.2 Carreras and have all drivers in Green drive them on track exclusively. 

check out this thread, it is related to all the water cooled engines  http://www.caymanclub.net/news-items/239...rsche.html