Thinking about doing an AutoX in 355

Personally I wouldn't do it; autox beats the car pretty hard and the 355 wouldn't do that well (no torque). Plus you'll have to put up with all the kids in modded hondas getting better times. I love doing autox in my STi, but won't bother in the Ferrari. Those are meant for track days

 

Cool, for sure post how it runs / handles and share pics and videos! I never taped up my bumper in an autox...but I probably would on the 355, save that paint job from cones and stones.

And yes, no matter how she runs you'll for sure have the coolest car there

 

Good luck, Rick. I hope you really have an enjoyable time.

 

I don't know if this qualifies as advice or not but the mid-engine design of the F355 has a low polar moment of inertia. Normally, this is a good thing because it helps the car rotate more freely when going into a corner and will not understeer. Unfortunately, I found that on a slow speed autocross track with tight slaloms that this is actually a liability, especially on street tires. That's why there is a stack of Hoosier A6 tires sitting next to me right now.

If you also are experiencing low speed oversteer, try to lower the front tire pressures and/or raise the rear tire pressures. Street tires don't respond as much as race tires to these pressure changes but it's a lot better than looping the car on a 50-foot cone slalom.

Wallace

 

You will have fun, but the 355 is actually too big and heavy to be competitive.

But go and have fun, and waste some tires!

 

go for it sandy...not enough F guys doing auto-x or trackdays. You should come run speedventures auto-x at cal speed with us. We get the bar be que going its pretty fun. Do a track day sometime with us too. These cars are for driving and any streetcar can be made competent on track. What you really need is to do more events like this and get a second set of tires preferably 355C wheels then you will be having some fun.

 

I like this line

 

There are many groups norcal and socal:

SCCA and NASA have timetrials and races and race/TT schools
AROSC.org is one of the best has hpde, TT, and race group is a very casual atmosphere and race/TT/hpde schools
WestCoast racing has race and HPDE used to be the home of the Socal FCA trackevents


Trackday local organizations:
speedventures
speedtrialusa
green flag
redline track events


That's all I can think of right now.