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Originally posted by REAL 1
I am seriously interested in a FFR Spec racer.
Whats the cost of purchase and build?
Where and when do you run them?
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Completed cars are going in the mid-20s for cars built by professional builders. It's probably cheaper to buy one finished than pay someone to build it from scratch. You can certainly build it yourself for around $20K. One suggestion is to not get too hung up on paint: if I had it over to do again I wouldn't go with the expensive metallic paint. These are, after all race cars and they see rocks and rubber. A pretty non-metallic will be easier in the long run.
Maintenance on the cars is obscenely inexpensive - a very pleasant surprise that we did not anticipate. The cars are very simple and the Ford running gear makes them easy to maintain. Our maintenance budget is slow low I am ashamed to tell anyone. More than once we have just pulled the car out of the trailer from the last race and wiped the brake dust down before running it again. It's something you just don't see in other race cars.
As for as where, you run with NASA. The primary series are Nouth/South California, Mid-Atlantic, Ohio/Indiana, and Texas/Oklahoma. I think Arizona may be up now and Florida and Michigan should be up soon. They are running as time trial in the Northeast with COM, but will probably be up there in the next few years. This year's National Championship will be held in Las Vegas.
You can also run with SCCA in GT-1 where the cars won't be competitive, at best, and maybe illegal, at worst. Then you have to run with SPO or another regional class where you are frequently up against cars in the $250K range. Consider it cheap track time or guage yourself against an A-Sedan car for fun. Last year we managed a second and a third in SCCA GT-1 races, but it took some yellow flags, a little luck, and a whole lot of late braking to make it work.
Another option is to see Racing Adventures. They use the Spec Racers in an illegal configuration, but the concept is basically the same. They rent them for schools (might count towards your competition license).