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Exactly. people don’t want to spend any time to learn anything anymore. ZERO SKIN IN THE GAME. A very SAD state of affairs. What real value does an AI summary have? All depth, nuance, and fine grain resolution is completely lost. Spending real hours to learn something reinforces those ideas...

Froggy indeed… High motion ratio, soft aggressive wheel spring rates, dropped roll center from panhard frame mount… better keep that CG down and dial in the sway bar stiffness… Seems that 3” diameter A36 solid rods are cheap… 😳 Just kidding… maybe… 🤣

Day be takin too many o dem arrogance pills. Super cheap via mail order from mehico.

I am a bit slow sometimes. I offer no apologies for having been dealt half a deck at birth. Maybe half is still a bit too generous. It’s just not as funny when you have to explain it. Sorry.

Yeah I meant the OEM ford rack. Not the impressive aftermarket efforts from 37L.

When they offer 20% off I would call that close to 1k. @SierraBronco has some funny math. Remind me to never buy parts from him. 🤣

Wow. Sorry. My bad. I thought you could get them from ford performance for close to 1k. Things must have changed. I got a new one for less than 1k locally from someone.

The coilover length, from frame mounting surface to LCA mounting surface, dictates CV angles. In OEM FDU configuration, the maximum allowable length is very close to 24.3”. At which point CV angles exceed allowable and physically begin to bind. This has been accurately verified, and almost all...

I think the HOSS 3.0 steering rack is worth the roughly $1k investment if you are running bigger tires. Not all the add on housings and such, just the rack from ford. This is a great time to also do that swap.

Enough said. We all now know where your heart is.

You scared me for a minute. I started thinking I had to get my tattoo removed… Nope. It’s a keeper.

Maybe a nuance is when considering motion of the wheel. For the double wishbone front, and I suppose for the 5 link rear SA, the kinematics of wheel motion are fully defined by the control arms and links. Same kinematics with and without the coilover attached. Coilover only acts to apply forces...

I really like this. I am convinced. May even tattoo this on my forehead. I suppose a key for large travel long arm rear suspensions under extreme wheel travel, is to make sure the coilover doesn’t become a strut (an integral part of the suspension). If it does that sucker is gonna take loads...

WTF. You 🤬🤬🤬… Fine…. Whatever… I will stop using the word strut. I have always assumed if it is load bearing part of the suspension it is a strut. Coilovers are load bearing. So I just use strut. But coilover is more relevant for sure… longer to type out on my phone…

I know what you meant with this. But this is simply not true. The shaft diameter, at a minimum, needs to carry the axial loads generated by the piston during high velocity damping. A 1 mm diameter is clearly not sufficient for the oem configuration. So there exists a minimum diameter required...

I agree with everything you are saying. The struts are allowed to rotate at each mount thus only axial loads should be transmitted. I am not arguing that 7/8” shafts are not sufficient. Nor that the greater design payoff is to minimize the shafts. Nor that shaft diameter is a non significant...

I would give shaft size some consideration for a build like this. Strut is mounted directly to lower control (trailing) arm. Motion ratio in rear is 1.7 (not a typo). This is not the OEM 5 link rear suspension.

I know you didn’t mean this literally, but shaft diameter does affect stress and thus load carrying capacity, what many interpret as strength. Clearly there is a design tradeoff here, shaft size (“strength”) vs piston/damping capacity. For OEM 5 link rear suspension tradeoff may indeed favor...

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Hmmm.. ok… speaking very slowly now… d u a l s p o r t m e a n s F o o t b a l l a n d B a s e b a l l. Think on it a while. I am sure you will understand eventually. But don’t force it. Try and take some thinking breaks every few minutes. Don’t want you to hurt yourself.