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Originally Posted by Philiprsmith
Lots going on with this thread and build and sorry that it went the way it did. One point that I wanted to make is that there is a fair amount of merit in the use of the Accel/Deccel design that Ron made for the car. See pic below from Keyser and how they did it. I use a variation of this pretty successfully.
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Well RON SUTTON did not design this.... Not sure who was first - but these types of rear ends have been around — but not widely used — for a long time. A quote from Jerry Miller (transAm car builder / owner / racer) “we tried them in the ‘80’s.... they didn’t do any better than anything else — and were overly complicated with too many moving parts”. I would wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. Basically Sutton picked this design because it is not widely used or known about — making him a “bottle neck” for info and parts... just setting a hook to your wallet and creating dependency on “him” for knowledge.
This about it — if these were so friggin much better — and someone ran it and beat all comers — the next season they’d be in every car..... While in fact - I challenge anyone to find guys running it or that know ANYTHING about them.
WE here and most PT forum people are not pro racers with teams of specialists at our disposal.... and we don’t get paid big bucks from sponsors... and there’s no TV time for “winning”....... so even if someone could rub my nose in it and say — SEE HERE — this guy wins everything and he’s running it..... We’re amateurs — running for ZERO dollars.... so .1 of second faster is hardly a big deal to us. In other words — just about 100% of everyone would be just as fast with some “normal” set up.
We don’t get endless track days to set this kind of stuff up and work out all the kinks.... and I defy anyone to find someone to help them do that even if they wanted to.
I’m glad it’s working for you....
BY THE WAY —- anyone that wants to is free to Google “decoupled 3 link” — and about all you’ll find is Sutton..... that should tell you all you need to know.