[CJD Automotive]

I think I knew it was all BS when I made a simple shock fixture.

I haven't built 200 cars, in fact, mine is the first car I've ever built that had coil overs mounted to jack screws.

I knew that the articulating top would make it very difficult to attach the mounts to the chassis inline, so I just slipped some scrap tube together with a mount.

Now this is my FIRST car I've ever built that had this type of mount, and within about ten minutes, figured out I needed to make SOMETHING to make this easier.

So lets just say I'm smarter than the average guy, doubtful, but lets just roll with that. I'm going to say by at least the fifth car you built, you'd come up with this simple shock fixture? Okay, maybe the twentieth? But 200 cars in, and he see's it, tells me it's a great idea, and ask if he can make a copy, "optimized" of course.

I knew then, he had never built a car, he may have consulted, oversaw, managed, or "optimized" the build, but no way he did it in this century.

BTW, he never offered to give me one of the "optimized" shock fixtures he copied and sells. What a guy.