Dreaming of IRS

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07-29-2005, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by vigil

The cobra IRS is considered worse than a solid axle torque arm/phb setup. Look on corner-carvers.

Some people need to realize that IRS does not always equal better than a solid axle. There is a lot of design and actual engineering work to take place before you do it.

That's what I was trying to say. My statement was that it was probably better than the stock GT suspension, not the griggs (PHB/TA setup). That's what I was trying to say here (I don't think I phrased that very well when I said it):

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It's not any worse than the solid axle, but I'm not sure how much better it is (than ours, not theirs. The stock GT suspension design sucks from a handling standpoint). It's a bandaid solution, but it's still better than what we got.

I meant that it is better than the bind prone stock GT setup, but likely not better than a torque arm/phb setup such as ours. And, that they got an IRS to experiment with and we didn't (I just hope GM would have done a better job on it if they had done it).