isnt he a member here?
My heartburn is over articles like the one that started this thread on Wrack71's car. More specifically, things like this statement "Although the car was a nice cruiser, Eric decided he wanted improve the handling to hang with the Pro-touring cars he saw." Well, guess what? You don't need a fully RMS converted car to do that.
I think there is a perception that all stock suspensions are inferior to a coil over. And I think the major reason for this perception is that most gear heads in the world are Chevy people and most of them love themselves a Camaro.
The reality is, for a Camaro, they really do need an improves suspension. I remember reading a blog years ago where a guy was building a Sunoco tribute car (or something like that) and he went into great depth on the design flaws of the front suspension. Something about the location of the spring on the LCA forcing you to run huge spring rates to get a decent wheel rate causing other problems you couldn't avoid. So, for a Camaro or any other similar GM products (maybe all of them?) it makes sense that to make one handle better you need an aftermarket suspension.
The problem is that a fair number of those same Chevy people are also writers and video personalities and so the "everything old must be replaced" mantra is spread far and wide.
As an example, let me hold up the creator and founder of the whole pro-touring movement (per the magazines), Mark Stielow. What number is he on now for Camaro builds, 75? He fought the poor suspension design of the Camaro for years with custom one off parts and such. Since these cars are the absolute pinnacle of the whole movement, what's a guy to think other than "if Mark has to throw out the entire front suspension, I guess I do to". Doesn't matter if it is a Ford or a Mopar, Mark has coil overs on his Camaro so they must be better.
Not saying I have anything against Mark, he built some cool cars. Love his focus on make it better and evolve the build. Just saying I think his builds have influenced the idea that old is bad, aftermarket is good.
On a side note, I love that the first year (I think) the Green Brick ran in the One Lap, it was against a Stielow Camaro. As I recall, it was a tight race and the victory by the Valiant might have been influenced by a fuel fire on the Camaro. Really wasn't much to the Valiant, but the Camaro wasn't able to run away from it either.
