There are many rewards of building your own front suspension but it comes with a cost of frustration & compromise! I just spent 2- 1/2 developing my own front suspension & sometimes I wish I would have just taken something off the shelf that already existed & worked with it.. But as Mike has stated adjustability is key to making an optimal performance front & rear suspension. The only reward of making your own stuff is the level of self satisfaction you get when you see the end results.. I have gone thru 4 revisions on my design & each time enhancing it to make a better .. The only reason I made such a big investment in time & money on this project is because I can control how I make a chassis to my desired ride height, width on track, & personal challenge to see if I could do it.. I was making chassis's left & right here @ the shop for builds but had not tested any of it on the street or track.. SO I built a test car that proofed the concept of design & function before I proceeded to consider it good functional piece with great relief that it works.. A couple of weeks ago I put a shoe driver in my test car & did a comparison with another car that had another brand of suspension underneath it & the results proofed that ours had an advantage on the front grip vs the other car.. So we are still on the hunt to better the rear.. ours has great rear grip but still looking for forward bite.. It is a personal challenge to keep optimizing our design!
In the mean time we use other brands of suspension even though we have our own.. This week we had the task of grafting DSE stub on to a chassis with a build we have here @ the shop.. We stick with stuff we know that works.. Even have a few with just bolt on stuff from RideTech.. The Mustang stuff I just refer over to Maier.. There will be many opinion on what is best out there.. For a complete race car stub.. I know who I would personally work with.. Maier! (Spell Check)
