Thank you to all of those who have posted thus far to this thread.
As the original poster, I should clarify a few things about what I was/am after. Understanding that knockback is a real issue that several folks I know have and are personally dealing with, I want to know if they had to do it over again, would they have choosen to go with a floater setup--this begs the question, which one and why.
Now, I do value opinions, and I should also say that I tend to place greater value on that individual's opinion that has actually used the product in the manner that I am going to use it and can provide me actual feedback, specifically that it works and has worked for XXXX amount of time. Some of you have outstanding technical and scientific abilities in which you can compute load on the face of a bearing and have it expressed as a percentage, build a 1.21 jigawatt flux capaciter, etc., which I know is also valuable information and makes appropriate points to lend solid credability to the various products out there. Those points are well made and actually help me feel better about making a purchase of those specific products as well. I don't have those same talents in every area and rely on this site and you industrial mega minds to help fill me in. (No comments about my personal abilities from the peanut gallery are necessary on this point.)
In the end, for me, I want to know the part works ---and works for my intended application, which in my case is lots of street miles (trips of 400 to 600 miles at a time), track days, auto crossing (peanut and large tracks). Additionally, do I have to give up the center caps on my wheels? This may not seem like a big deal to some, but to me, I would be bummed out to have to give up those up. Small thing I know, but it's an individual thing.
This is why I value and have valued the opinions of guys like Todd, Dave, Chad, Payton, James, and others like them that can and will chime in. They are out at the tracks, have hit the streets and have used their cars, generally speaking in a similar fashion. I would hate to purchase one, find out they make some crazy noise at crusing RPM's, or require maintence every 5k, etc. It's my comfort level in assessing the next purchase--kinda like investing 401, after you have excess income, what is the best approach to take when wasting it on a car---my response, careful and thoughtful wasting by asking others who have wasted it before me if it was worth it.
Thanks again to all who have posted as I believe it will help others considering this same purchase as well. It appears we are well represented on this topic. I would hope that one of the mags would cover this topic in depth with some real world testing (Rupp, job opportunity--you can quit building motors and switch to floaters----GMR, Baer, Speedtech, Speedway--put them all on BP this year and give us feedback--there's got to be a story in that).
Doug BW Fresh
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