CN based cars

[Ken_T]

Gentlemen,

First post, sorry for the length…..

I just sold my single seater that I ran here in the States in SCCA. The transporter took the mistress away yesterday on her way to her new home in Florida. So now it’s time to talk about the next one. I have always been a fan of sports racers, so that will be my next effort and looking at the rules, I am thinking of running a 2 seater CSR. The 2 seater will allow me to bring my son/daughter along for the occasional track day and also the CSR rules have given some allowances to the 2 seaters to make them more competitive.
CSR now is populated with single seaters with 1.6l engines at 1300 lbs and some restricted larger displacement engines that vary weights with restrictor. For 2 seaters, they allow the car to run at 1350 lbs (with driver) and an unrestricted 2.0l engine. There is an engine builder nearby that claims a 300 hp 2.0l Honda with a 100 hour engine life. The advantage of the 1.6 liter cars is they generally have full tunnel floors (single seater conversion cars) but the engines are strung pretty tight. I was thinking using a CN based car as a start because they have quite a bit of development into them, are pretty robust, and can be used for some enduro type racing as well as the sprints. I can do the allowable updates over time. The choices available in the States are the Norma, ADR, and Ligier. I have seen some results showing success with the Norma and the Ligier, but have not seen whether many ADR CN cars are being run and their success. Any input on the ADR cars? From what I saw, they appear to be lighter. Perhaps some of you have seen them in the Speed series or VdeV? There is an ADR dealer nearby that I know and I have talked to our Norma dealer here in the States.

Thanks in advance for any input. I take a little time to make a decision, so I am in the information gathering phase.