That's the whole thing Norm, you are predisposed to think that about it.
I can't imagine
not doing my own thinking when it comes to car mods. Or most things, for that matter. Otherwise I'd be as ripe for the picking as the prospective vacation home buyer who hears about all that nice waterfront property in Florida. This is my general outlook, not something specific to any particular aftermarket entity.
You admittedly didn't watch much of it previously. I can't force anybody to watch it nor am I trying to. I put it out there for people to view, that's it.
I watched enough of it to realize that he was hard enough to follow when you actually have some understanding of the stuff. Those who don't understand it very well (or at all) are going to be totally snowed.
I can't separate inability to adequately explain from discomfort in front of the camera at this point, and that's part of why I'm hoping he does get more camera-comfortable.
And no it's not all old 60's stuff, he's actually in process of designing a new S197 suspension, and he has quite a bit of stuff for the S550 as well.
All that small-section add-on bracing is at best Fox-era technology. Sometimes, shortish lengths of small-section tubing do provide measurable benefit (I'm thinking about lower/K-member tie bars here), other times there isn't enough technical benefit to justify the weight or the expense.
For his newer stuff, he's absolutely going to have to explain things like how lowering the rear geo-roll center
and eliminating the rear sta-bar - doing both together - is a good idea. Like what else is he doing, perhaps with springs or other aspects of the car's understeer budget (understeer-oversteer balance)? We'll have to see how that goes, and hope that it's not the same sort of hand-waving that gave Fox-body cars aftermarket PHBs (in fairness, KB was not alone in binding up the Fox rear suspension this way, but he can't escape being linked to the use of questionable band-aids).
And this whole series is not about him promoting his stuff. He is trying to help people in making the right decisions for the right application, whether Street Car, Street /Track, full Track day car, or full race car.
If more yt links show up, I'll see for myself.
I hope you got some useful cooling hints. I blame Ford's management for letting their business management theory training outweigh product and engineering considerations for that.
Norm
