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Technical Talk / Car Classification
« on: October 14, 2018, 10:53:46 PM »
Hi Everyone,
I hope I'm not going to get flamed for asking this question in my first ever post! My son Mason and I entered our first event in Calgary today Oct 14 and had an absolute blast. We were in a 2008 Silver BMW 135i and thoroughly enjoyed running this car and were hoping to get some clarity on classification. We picked up the car as salvage as it was vandalized. I have no intentions of ever putting the car on the street. Someone jumped on the roof, beat the crap out of it, smashed out the rear window and sunroof. It sat out in Abbotsford for almost a year, open to the elements (rain, rain and some more rain). We were forced to strip and discard the headliner, carpet, rear seats, sunroof track, rear trunk carpet, amp, speakers etc. due to mold and have no intentions of replacing it. I also will not be shelling out the cash for a new rear glass and sunroof and would like to remove the side curtain airbags. I fear this will put us in the XP class from what I read in the rule book and other forums. Ive asked around and have gotten some mixed feedback on what class it would fall into. Not really sure what route to go with it, we have a budget to do some stuff the car but know we will not be competitive in the XP class no matter what we do to the car and don't have endless bags of money to throw at it. We are doing this for fun but both enjoy competition and still want to be in a class where we can be competitive. Can anyone shed some light onto what class the car currently falls into? We ran open class today because we really didn't know where it falls.
Thanks, Dan
I hope I'm not going to get flamed for asking this question in my first ever post! My son Mason and I entered our first event in Calgary today Oct 14 and had an absolute blast. We were in a 2008 Silver BMW 135i and thoroughly enjoyed running this car and were hoping to get some clarity on classification. We picked up the car as salvage as it was vandalized. I have no intentions of ever putting the car on the street. Someone jumped on the roof, beat the crap out of it, smashed out the rear window and sunroof. It sat out in Abbotsford for almost a year, open to the elements (rain, rain and some more rain). We were forced to strip and discard the headliner, carpet, rear seats, sunroof track, rear trunk carpet, amp, speakers etc. due to mold and have no intentions of replacing it. I also will not be shelling out the cash for a new rear glass and sunroof and would like to remove the side curtain airbags. I fear this will put us in the XP class from what I read in the rule book and other forums. Ive asked around and have gotten some mixed feedback on what class it would fall into. Not really sure what route to go with it, we have a budget to do some stuff the car but know we will not be competitive in the XP class no matter what we do to the car and don't have endless bags of money to throw at it. We are doing this for fun but both enjoy competition and still want to be in a class where we can be competitive. Can anyone shed some light onto what class the car currently falls into? We ran open class today because we really didn't know where it falls.
Thanks, Dan