An engineer is only as good as the path he's asked to take.
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An engineer is only as good as the path he's asked to take.
everybody thinks because rumley is an engineer that be an engineer is the answer. What most don't realize. Kevin rumley is a man born and bread into latemodel racing that baced his how education and career around doing what he loved. He understood the cars long before he learned the math that's what makes him dangerous
all these " new and improved parts " make me think of a chassis builder I dealt with years ago that tried to sell me a new and improved front lower control arm , it looked different at first glance , but after really looking at it , I could not find an advantage , so I ask him strait up what that advantage was , he laughed and said none , but we have to have something to sell , lol , this happens more than folks think .....
Rocket did this some years ago on the blue front cars. It was successful enough they were told to stop . Now that nobody checks wheelbase anymore, someone else is doing it. although not just added on. Hard to spot if not really looking. So rocket drug the idea back out.
Don't know what it's supposed to do . Put one on a couple weeks ago moves rf forward 1 1/2 to 2 inches i didn't measure. possibly 12 or 13 years since they used it on the house car I think they were told it couldn't be used so quickly it might not have been on any other cars.
At one point there was a Swatrz Extreme sitting at the rocket shop.
i always get a kick out of the word engineer,
while they are numbers and physics guys, you can work on your stuff threw experience too, i laugh when the young guys say, "you cant cut that with out jigging it"
mad respect to all the engineers out there, but just because you dont have a degree doesnt mean your not a smart guy, i fix engineers mistakes everyday, they finally started to listen to my input because after building what was on the print, then it didnt work, they would ask, hey can we make it work ??? i would say ya, but can we work threw it before we build it next time???
the mis conception that you cant build your own car and win is just wrong, all a chassis is , is a platform to bolt parts on, and make it easy to change set ups fast
now if you build a car and it works great, now is the time for the jig, so its done the same every time
just hate todays world of saying you have to be an engineer, what happened to imagination and experience, most of the time the first guy to do it wasnt an engineer, he just did it
i hope there is some young person reading this thats a great welder and fab guy (or gal) and builds one to kick there ass, it can and should be done