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I feel bad for Greg on this deal, when one buys a high dollar catalog car...the expectation is that it will come with all matched specs and this one clearly didn't.

I have put probably 8-10 different Sutton spec'd setups under my car over the past 5 years and about 75% of them were neutral balanced out of the box. A few of them totally missed the mark though. We put a new front bar/rear spring setup under the car before my first SCCA Nationals trip in 2014 and the car was basically undrivable on course. After the first day my friends and I came up with a solution in paddock, swapped out the rear springs and a day later I brought home a third place trophy.

What I learned more than anything thru all of this was how to diagnose what the car is doing on my own and come up with tuning solutions to solve issues it has. Spring and bar adjustments, shock adjustments, brake bias adjustments...when you are closer to the pointy end of the stick, the guy or gal behind the wheel needs to be able to feel what the car is doing and where...then be able to adjust the car to the current situation.

To expect a person behind a computer screen States away from you to spec a package out and be perfect every time...is a mistake. Hard parts from reputable manufacturers are golden, no issues with any of them. Deciding which adjustments to make on those parts for a balanced setup....that should be on the owner/driver/crew chief.

I will add this about Sutton as well, when I found something that worked better for me than what he prescribed, he was always cool about it. Never did he give me the " I'm right you are wrong, that won't work" bit that I have seen from other people in the industry. This let me to grow as a tuner myself which in the end should be what anyone else doing this should strive for as well.

Hope that made sense...I'm not trying to defend anything Ron did as much as I'm just saying if you really want something done right, do it yourself.