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Originally Posted by Caustic
The problem I had is the consistent insistence that a live axle is just as good as an IRS to make a car perform well at a track. And then when that couldn't be argued, the insistence it doesn't matter. Of course it matters. That is why car manufactures spend time and money to develop these systems. That's why the cars in most track racing have it. But the live axle guys have dug their feet in because they can't deal with the fact that their cars are using inferior tech. The Mustang, one of the most recognizable marques around the world, has made forays into IRS (bad or otherwise) just for this very reason. And I'm the one that should let it go? Ford sure isn't, their next gen will offer IRS.
If you start putting other factors in there like good/bad setups, other applications, of course it muddies the whole argument, and avoids the original point.
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There is no silver bullet. There are plenty of cars out there with various suspension setups and drivetrain configurations. Hell there are many configurations of a single type of drivetrain... They all do well and they all beat one another.
People put far to much weight into giving a **** about SRA vs IRS...
When most of the people here (myself included) couldnt push either to its potential.
Now is there any other technology that we would like to argue about, which most have no experiance pushing, as justification to say that one car is better then the other?