Thank you Greg Weld ! Venting time.

[dhutton]

Originally Posted by mfain

After reading these posts I have been doing a little of Don’s “navel gazing” regarding the subject myself. It is clear from multiple posts by qualified experts, including Greg, that you cannot expect a prototype car, especially a true race car contender, to be full up until it has had a great deal of testing, tuning, and refinement. Read Hutton’s post 42, Blake’s post 46, Ironwood’s post 51, and Weld’s post 58, which reads in part: ‘#3 -- Sutton built Dirt Missile.... $200K catalog car.... Expect to have LOTS of issues and LOTS of set up work and LOTS of testing and tuning.... but if you can't do little things even half right - and you are aware of an issue and don't bother to fix it -- and you cost me $50K in wasted time and effort.... you don't get to touch the car ever... because you're too F'n stupid. I'd prefer to pay someone double (not) to fix it....

Pappy

I am not a subject matter expert regarding six figure custom built cars. Not even close and I did not mean to imply that I am. I’ve steered clear of the whole Sutton Weld debacle for that precise reason. My navel gazing was not directed at that build. I was just sharing some general thoughts from an engineering perspective.

Don