Hi,
Without beating a dead horse...
I will not argue all your points, but I will point out one extremely
important factor: the modern tires are truely amazing, but you still need
to optimize the contact patch no matter what tires you are using. A TR6
with un-equal a-arms in the front and semi-trailing arms in the back
easily adapts to changes to optimize the contact patch... STILL.
The fact is - we are in agreement on the topic. I was jus trying to point
out that a TR6 can be made to handle every much as well as any modern car
can. In fact, the really serious tuners will add feature to modern cars to
give them suspensions that are quite similar to what we start with. For
example, the real fast EP autocrossers in FWD cars that use MacPherson
strut front suspensions are dumping those in favor of unequal length
double a-arm suspensions. How 'bout that? TR6's already have this setup.
I do think that TR6 could benefit from having unequal double a-arms in the
back (like the TVR 2500) and this would be an awesome improvement over the
semi-trailing arm setup in terms of tunability. Adapting a Miata setup
would also be quite kool.
But what we have is pretty darn good. And when it comes to power, TR6
isn't too bad in the torque dept. Just for yucks, look at the torque
numbers for a v-tec honda.
rml
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