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john vanlandingham
What do you think the utter collapse of Subies WRC competitiveness stems from?
Since we're offtopic and shooting the shit more than anything.
Oh noes this is as serious as a heart-attack!!!
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I think it's kind of a lot of things. I got into a chat with someone who worked at Prodrive, who said that the move to Sachs dampers in '05 killed driver feedback,
wait a second.. I read an extremely long interview with the Belge Christian Loriaux when he was still head hero at Pro-drive and the "new" Dodge Neon version was the thing, and there he said quite clearly that "all the systems on the car are too complicated for (pea-brained children ) drivers to understand anything so ---(in essence) I have to trust all the data, and have the cars set up like i say and they should just (shut up) and drive"
It was abundantly clear that he was uninterested in driver feed back....
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and the new style body had all sorts of issues with the rear geometry.
That is mighty suspect, the rear was completely conventional, what could be wrong with long links...he (designer Loriaux) had been there for 10 years, all the the glory days with McRae.
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I think that Prodrive may have been leaning on fully active diffs for tuning more than the other teams, so when they got banned they had a bunch more work to do to make up the gap and that hurt them even more.
that was 06 and Subie seemed to be struggling but you're right 06 and he was way down with only 3 2nd places worth mentioning..and that was it
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At the same time Ford and Citroen were stepping up their game.
Ford hired Loriaux starting 02 season
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Layout-wise... I dunno. Yeah, the engine's hanging out there farther, but it's not like an Audi I5, it's a short little thing and it's aluminum.
Ain't that short and its way way wider and there's a lot of aluminum.. Aluminum is roughly 1/3 the weight but for strenth you use 2-3 times the thickness, and there's a lot of that engine...
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Whether that beats a cast iron thing and transmission in front of the axle centerline but not as far forwards, I dunno. Ford put a lot of bucks to moving the transmission guts behind the axle centerlines back in the day on the Fuckus.
Yes the first version, but they went to conventional with the 0 something model.
seems what everybody does is tilt the engine rearward so the weight is more over the axles.
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I prefer the YB arrangement but apparently the production engineers didn't or something, go figure.
Well I do too but that's because I, a mere schmuck, can afford one and as a stock engine, its way stronger than any other with a nice steel crank, steel flywheel and good forged pistons...and its a drop in deal in the right car.
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