isnt he a member here?

DionR said

Yep, that’s him. Last active Aug 13,2017.

Seems like he was trying really hard to be competitive in the Optima series. I think that is why he went to the full RMS suspension, because some of those guys said he would never compete using a Mopar on stock suspension because he couldn’t get the rear roll center low enough? Something like that, I would have to go digging. Seems like he posted his reasons on here when he made the swap.

Really hope he didn’t grow disillusioned with the Duster and Mopars in general and jump ship to a Camaro or something.

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He was at Moparty a year or two ago with his Duster. Think he just got tired of FABO, which I can understand.

He said things like "every fast car on the track in the country is running some sort of coilover aftermarket suspension,chevy,ford,or mopar.", which wasn't even true at the time he said it because the Hotchkis Taxi had lapped the same track faster than he did at that point, it was in the article I posted above. So there were Mopars at the time that were faster than his, running torsion bars and leafs. Although he liked to say there were no mopars with torsion bars at the events he was running, which seems kinda silly. So he showed up to a few events and was the only Mopar. So what? The Hotchkis Challenger and Taxi were going to events at the time, just not where he was.

Like all the coil-over boosting articles lots of claims are made and not backed up. "The CG is lower". Is it? Because the heaviest part of the coil over system is the coil overs, and they're much higher on the car than the heavy torsion bars, and I've never seen anyone actually do the math on the CG. Lots of claims, no evidence. "It saves a ton of weight". Well, no, not really. Not unless you compare a power steering torsion bar car with a manual rack coil-over car. And honestly most of that is just the massively heavy mopar power steering box. You save more weight going from an OE power steering box to an OE manual steering box than you do going from OE manual steering to a manual rack w/ coil-overs. I've done that math.

He even said at one point that he had more issues setting up the 4 link than the front end. Which makes sense, because if you ask actual road racers what they want for rear suspension a triangulated 4 link isn't it.