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07-22-2003 10:28 AM #1
Good input joker. I would expect, as they get further into production, that quality should increase (of course, until and if they get to a point where the tooling begins to wear out). They seemed pretty defensive about questions pertaining to the "roughness" this time around, so I suspect that they've got the process about as fine tuned as they can do economically.
Since Larry has put up the chassis photo I'll add another observation. While I like the design and execution of the chassis overall, I was less impressed with the way they dealt with the support hardware for the air bag system. That box at the rear of the frame precludes two major items. One, the traditional, stock configuration, fuel tank. You're left with having to mount it in the trunk area somehow. One way or the other you lose trunk space. Some would argue that getting the tank away from the rear, thus reducing the dangers of collision damage, is a good thing. Point taken, but still "un-traditional". Two, routing exhaust to the rear with a triangulated four bar setup is difficult enough normally. With that box, there is nowhere to run the tubing. You're pretty much stuck with dropping a truncated tailpipe in front of the axle. I'm less enthralled with that approach due to the potential for exhaust fume entry to the passenger compartment. Perhaps if they'd made the box narrower, along the dimensions of the stock tank, there'd have been a nominal amount of space to route the pipes.Your Uncle Bob, Senior Geezer Curmudgeon
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