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Originally Posted by Caustic
Maybe you are the one that is talking about stuff no one even brought up in the manner you seem to think. First off, I am not arguing against Billy in the slightest. Billy owns an NSX, is an active member of NSXPrime, and has contributed to our community immensely. He is a great source of information because he is so connected to the car community.
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Cool story bro, thanks for the monologue.
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Originally Posted by Caustic
I was pointing out in the quote that m4a1mustang used from Billy about live axle, that Billy was speaking from a professional perspective. I went further to say that for the rest of us, a difference between the two systems (SRA, IRS) is consistency. A professional driver masks the weaknesses of the live axle, where people like us have to fight against it.
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This is a correct statement to an extent and I do not disagree with you here, nor in your first post. Professional drivers can bring out the most of any vehicle because they have the skill level to do so.
But making blanket statements like IRS > SRA or:
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Originally Posted by Caustic
Or just go for a car with with an IRS suspension which everyone in this thread has already admitted is the superior solution.
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is categorically wrong no matter how you try massage the message. Don't believe me? Go back to picture story where I talked about a 20+ year old IRS design and both the IRS design of the 370z and the SRA design of the Boss 302. The IRS design of the 240sx is less capable than both the 370z and the Boss 302. Period. There is no disputing that. I even explicitly stated the point of the picture just because you can't leave stuff like that to chance and rogue interpretations.
Here is another example. Take the old Mustang IRS setup. It was bad. So they abandoned it and went back to the SRA setup. Lots of reasons for it being bad, but doesn't change the fact that it was bad. Does that make SRA > IRS? For that instance, on that car, on that chasis, considering the car as a whole...absolutely. Does that make SRA > IRS in general, as a blanket statement or rule? Nope. Just as Red mentioned:
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IRS is a superior framework that allows for superior designs...it doesn't guarantee them.
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Notice the caveat. It is important.
If people want to make blanket statements about suspensions it should at least be:
IRS should be better than SRA assuming it was well developed. If people were making THAT point, then there is nothing left to say really.
But they aren't, which is the problem. And because they aren't, it is misinformation.