[Steve Chryssos]

There is very little room for superlatives in the world of Pro-Touring.

A story: Many moons ago, I took my "finished" car with early ARDF (pre-wayne due) clip to a well known chassis builder to get "fixed". He asked (grunted) the obvious question: "Whattya wanna be able to do with this thing?" My initial rant of an answer?
"I want to to dive into any corner at insane triple digit speeds!"
"I want to out corner any Lamborghini, Ferrari or Porsche!"
"I want to exceed 1g in lateral acceleration on street tires!"
"I want to autocross, to track day, to drag race!"
"I want to go to the moon and back!"
"I want!, I want!, I want!......"

The fabricator had dollar signs in his eyes and my buddy interrupted and quietly said ".....No you don't."

Stunned, I asked my buddy to clarify. His response was that I want a very capable street car. A hot rod. Not a race car. "Pick one" he said, "because there are light years between the two equations. That the car might be raced is almost inconsequential. You will be racing a hot rod.

The fabricator agreed. In the end, we decided to leave the frame rails, lower A-arms and uprights intact and modify the existing design from there. Upper shock mounts, upper A-arm mounts, engine location, rack location were tweaked. Upper A-arms were swapped. Springs and sway bars were changed..stuff like that.

But the most important part of the exercise was that I came to grips with my true objective: To build a capable street car. A hot rod. The formula you described will yield an extremely enjoyable street car. And that's a good thing.