boostedbrick wrote:
Gwagensteve, have you ever used drop shackles? Or do you right it off as shit because you have your head so far up your ass that your not open to other ideas? .
They have there place in certain situations and terrains...
They have there place in certain situations and terrains...
Them's fighting words
I actually tend to think I'm pretty open to different ideas and have built some pretty intentional stuff, but I try to limit the amount of hypothesizing and bench racing on here Most people who know me think I'm far from narrow minded, but a bad idea is a bad idea. However, I am in a club, and I have built lots of cars. I haven't owned or built a car with drop shackles, but I have built cars with 3/4 elliptic (which is similar but superior to whacky shackles) and a number of club members have run drop shackles. Nobody runs them now, and that's through their negative experiences, not through me saying they are a bad idea.
If the "terrain" is a ramp or posing on a rock, they are awesome. Otherwise they are spooky and unpredictable when the car is weight transferring or under power, just like loose coils/excessively long shocks. In short, on balance, they make a car less capable because they make it less trustworthy when the car is on a big angle and/or under power.
If you never, ever throttle an obstacle, never get the car on a big spooky angle where they unload, and build the whole suspension around them, they mighty be ok. But that's nothing like the real world. Sooner or later they'll let you down. so saying "in some situations and terrains" they work, (see above- ramps and posing) it's also true that in some situations they don't- that being real world obstacles.
That's purely from my experience though.
Steve.
