Has anybody welded in a pair of BMR SFC's.... then tested them on a road course ? (05-14 cars, or 07-14 GT-500's)..and provided some data ? I searched anywhere..and everywhere for the last 3 months...off and on..... and not having any success.
The way this thread as evolved..(and also the 87 postings on FB), it's as though BMR SFC's have been previously tested by somebody in the past.... with either poor /mixed results. If that's the case, fine..... but I'm having a helluva time finding it. I'll ask BMR if they can provide any actual data...which may well be anecdotal and /or biased.... but better than nothing.
Of course this has been "tested", countless times. Even on floppy noodle Fox Mustang chassis. Too many times to count over the past 30 years. Guess what....
It. Doesn't. Do. Dick.
No lap time changes. People don't tend to show "failed tests" on their parts, and even end users who can swear they "feel a difference" aren't going to show properly controlled test data that was a dead end. You can look for a hundred hours and not find a real test done that shows what you want here.
But on older chassis, sure, I'd still try to add proper SFCs to the "flexi-flier" Fox or maybe even an SN95 chassis. We went to great lengths to firm up this LS swapped floppy 3rd gen Camaro we worked on, below, which - like the Fox Mustang - is another car "designed in the 1970s"
But on 21st century designs (S197 and S550) which are built like a damn bank vault, you are just falling into...
STEELITUS.
STEELITUS is a common milady, where you add more and more bolt-on or weld-on steel doo-dads to an already PROVEN AND MEASURED super stiff modern chassis, but it is JUST ADDING WEIGHT. But, you do get the benefit of
a lighter wallet! Lap times mysteriously remain unchanged, or get worse as you add more weight...
Don't you think
Ballast My Ride would be posting any shred of real, A-B-A, controlled test, with any scientific lap time drops if their braces and doo-dads they made actually
dropped lap times, like this delusional JJ thinks his Kenny B bits did "year over year" in his
"12 seconds slower than Spec Miata" supercharged Mustang?
They'd buy ads on Google, Facebook, be posting it all over this forum.
Isn't it unusual that they don't? But they don't need to - so many people "want to believe" and will buy any shiny gadget.
Again, the burden of proof should be on the shops that push this bolt-on nonsense to the public, not on the naysayers like us, who just say "show me the data". Like so many of these worthless parts you can buy for these cars THERE IS NO DATA to show this, because it
simply doesn't work.
Hugs are better than drugs,