WELD/SUTTON DIRT MISSILE build

[raustinss]

Is it wrong to laugh hes out of business. I mean I feel bad just for one reason he does have some knowledge in his head for some car stuff ... almost like a waste of talent . Otherwise Haha jerk, serves you right

[Merritt5]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Update about what??

My car is still a POS — I have NOT taken it to SpeedTech yet.... I will do that around Thanksgiving

Sutton supposedly is out of business

What more would you like to know?

Gotcha, didn't realize the car hadn't made it to speedtech yet

[Che70velle]

Just out of morbid curiosity...the move that Ron made to the new facility recently...was that a bigger/better facility, or was he perhaps downsizing? Anyone actually see his new facility?

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Che70velle

Just out of morbid curiosity...the move that Ron made to the new facility recently...was that a bigger/better facility, or was he perhaps downsizing? Anyone actually see his new facility?

So basically — his “gal Friday” or whatever you wanted to call her — is Randys (One off customs in Sacramento) girlfriend - who used to be store manager for Sutton when he had some retail store at one of the dirt tracks == and Randy is/was his “chassis” builder.... and the whole operation was run out of a small “hot rod” (there weren’t any) shop in Sacramento area. In other words — it was Ron and Randy - and recently Ron had hired a guy to answer phones and ship stuff.

He’s out of business.... and you won’t be reading or hearing from him again.

He owes a lot of people....

I agree that it was a doggone shame at how he went down. And while people will blame me — they should really look at Sutton and how he was conducting business. While he stated he was no “Frank @ Prodigy” — the actual facts are that he was exactly that. Robbing one guy to pay the other — and he’d never ever be able to catch up - because the more the business grew - the more he owed. Fixing my POS alone would be 10’s of 1000’s.... and that would just have come out of the next sale to the next guy and so on.

When you don’t do what you say you’re going to do — or do what you say you can do.... and deliver peoples parts and products and services. You go out of business.

Like the drivers for his old race business found out —— he was just full of bull**** and marketing lines.

[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.

[Flash68]

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.

What type of car and what series(s) are you running in Philip?

[Philiprsmith]

I race a 1991 Camaro with SCCA in American Sedan. Best finish is 2nd at MO in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. Was able to beat John Heinricy that year but finished behind Andy McDermid.

[sixnina]

Any Update on the D/m??

[GregWeld]

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.

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.

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by sixnina

Any Update on the D/m??

This thread seems to have taken over the updates Shane.

https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57146