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Old 09-30-2006, 12:35 PM
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A few things I have to say here. I'm going to try and not make this a bashing session on air ride. I think what they are doing for what their products are meant for is great. But you cannot take 60's stock suspension muscle cars and compare them to anything that has been done in the last decade. All you have to do is stick different springs and shocks in a stock car and you made a lot of improvements over what came from the factory. You can't take your best stuff and compete against old stuff. What kind of comparison is that? Bob's cuda which was not made for autocross by any means, is not a good comparison. His car was not really built for the autocross, but it does very well (and beat all but one of your autocross setup cars) there but that was not its top primary goal. You cannot set up your best cars for such events and put them against stock cars or cars that were not made for this kid of thing. You want to go against something, go race your autocross cars against a properly set up 510 or rx-3 on a autocross track, or a newer vette on a road race track. Chances are you would get spanked. The suspension while being good for cruising and what not is still not a high performance chassis. The rebound and compression cannot react fast enough for such things. The new cars like the Mercedes air ride is an electronically controlled suspension with springs in the bags. I have seen this argument before. You don't have the speed at what is needed for racing to be competitive. I think what you guys have done is very good, but to make this "as good as anything else" is absurd, especially when you compare against stock cars from the 60's. A shopping cart has a better suspension then the stock chassis Come on now, be fair about this.

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