Wally
Club Member
Its not a as convenient to adjust as a top plate and not as easy to simply adjust toe between road and track settings (if you track it)
Its still shocks, bumps and vibrations transmitted through solid metal parts that are attached solidly to the car without any bushes between the frame and the chassis. While the effect mat not be massive, there will still be some, just personally for me given most are getting on for 50 years old I want to avoid additional stress on the chassis.
You do not have to fit budget shocks surely, you could fit top quality ones if you wanted, most people probably won't but thats a different matter. Only reason someone would spend 5k on it and do this is because they are stupid.
I also don't see a huge advantage from the pushrod setup, its not going to save a huge amount of unsprung weight and as you say its untested, the angles and forces may be less than Ideal.
Adjusting camber from the top makes sense in that situation.
The front is all solid mounted but the rear is mounted to the body with polybrushes so the rear shouldn't be too much of an issue. I will need to keep on top of the servicing the rose joints.
I totally agree with your comments on the pushrod setup. It's over kill and adds unnecessary extra weight for road use. I don't like the idea of having the shocks inside the vehicle either.
Only way I'm going find out if this will be suitable for me is to get it built up and start using it. I can then test and adjust from there. With it being so new there is little real world usage with this setup.