Tha_Ape
Active Member
You are missing the most important component - you can and SHOULD upgrade the nut behind the wheel!
Sign-up for DEs in your area (check you local SCCA, BMW, or Porsche car clubs), and participate in autoX and track events.
The amount of performance gains you can unlock with driver skill improvement will dwarf anything you can achieve by throwing $$$ at the parts.
Best of all, those performance and safety gains are fully transferrable across all cars you will ever own or drive!
HTH,
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100% agree on this... and it follows you from car to car.
I stopped upgrading my cars after I started going to the track. I realized I wasn't able to drive the car to 100% even while it was stock. I wouldnt even be able to realize the minor performance gains I'd get from dropping money into the car. Dropping money on a track event makes a much more drastic improvement on how fast you can go around corners. Of course, once you're good enough, those mods do help. I just never got to that point in my CTS-V (got much closer in my miata).
Launching out of corners and braking from 140mph every minute or two really teaches you your cars handling and braking limits.