[tyoneal]

To All:

Thanks for the additional comments. I'll get to them shortly.

As I was reading the post, something dawned on me.

Wasn't the I.R.O.C. based on similar cars with just a driver difference?

What I would propose is:

Each business builds their own 1st Gen F-Body (Substitute whatever car you want) using their products and ideas, or packages. It doesn't matter what they do to the floor board or not. It is for them to design their best suspension. Then all the little things would go away.

If their package used CF, great, If another one uses a Tubular suspension, great. As long as it is something they sell and we can buy.

That would give them free reign to develop great suspensions, and we could be the ones to evaluate their performance based on what we were willing to do to our cars, and how much we were willing to spend.

In addition baselines would be known, and records would be set. They would also have set goals with their R & D.

It wouldn't make exactly apples to apples, however we could evaluate each companies efforts on a given platform, and there would be something for everyone there. The next year, they would come back with their next try. They could learn from their competition what worked and what didn't. Each years they would all probably get better because of the competition.

As a result We would have a wealth of information and a choice how we each wanted to approach the suspension part of our build.

Over time we could see what 5K can build, and what you can get for 10K and so on. Another plus is, as it became clear what worked for a specific model then who had the best price would become relevant. Possibly, making the market more competitive. In the long run our available technology choices would improve.

What do you think of this idea.

Ty