Re: Alterkation, XV Level II and MagnumForce front end
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11/09/07 02:42 PM
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Yeah, their comparison to a late model Camaro or Mustang made me think they don't buy the XV "Building modern Supercars from classic Muscle Cars" tag line.
My guess is because the product is not only American, but old American and they didn't think it was worth getting a hotshoe to drive...
Nevermind the comparison to a 37 yr old T/A. Albiet a sub 30K mi T/A, but the suspension bushings are about as firm as a Notell Motel mattress and the engine is likely tired (sunk exhaust valve seats) from burning unleaded gas for most of its life. The carb probably needs a rebuild and some tuning as well as the distributor.
Car and Driver is the New York Times of automotive journalism...
I wouldn't mind seeing Bill doing a write up on the evolution of his products as well...
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Re: Alterkation, XV Level II and MagnumForce front end
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11/09/07 09:25 PM
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My name is Jason and I work at Magnumforce, many of you have most likely spoken with me if you have called here. I used to do a lot of posting and responses on here. This is absolutely insane. All three companies have made very good improvements on the original suspensions and are very different. If you can believe it, I have even recommended the RMS system to customers that needed something different than what we offer for various reasons. I do not yet have enough exposure to the XV system to determine its merits/downfalls. There are a few questions that come to mind... The point is that RMS and Magnumforce spend time building Mopars, fabricating products and helping people via email and phone. We should be spending more time actually driving/racing our cars instead of sittting on the side-line arguing over who is the best. No direct comparisons have been made to date because no two cars (or most importantly drivers) are the same. If you have the time to be on this website, responding to every cheap shot that people take at you then obviously people are paying too much for your products or else you would be losing a lot of time/money responding. The Mopar community is special because we do not have dime-a-dozen cars or a million options for parts. Cool Mopars are built by people that love Mopars and are willing to try new things to get what they want. Cool Mopars are NOT built by people that argue on forums all day about who says what. We should all try to be more accepting of new things instead of trying to monopolize the market. The more we all strive to make better products, the better our cars become. If one company dominates the market, then what is their motivation to ever improving? We should be kicking some chevy/ford butt, not other Mopars! I'm sure this post will cause a "firestorm" of negative remarks and other hearsay that I will tell you ahead of time, I do not have time to respond to because we have parts to build! If you have questions, call (408-559-6633) Mon-Fri 10-6 PST or email ( jason@magnumforce.com ). Now, if you can excuse me, I can go back to actually working on Mopars.
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Re: Alterkation, XV Level II and MagnumForce front end
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11/10/07 12:29 AM
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if we could just get the actual users of these products to voice their opinions? rms xv and mf users. pros cons lets hear em.
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Re: Alterkation, XV Level II and MagnumForce front end
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11/10/07 12:44 AM
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Now that all 3 manufacturers have chimed in this thing should be locked, cleaned up and dropped into the archives
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if we could just get the actual users of these products to voice their opinions? rms xv and mf users. pros cons lets hear em.
Hmmmmm, did someone see this comming??
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Re: Alterkation, XV Level II and MagnumForce front end
[Re: Moparmatty]
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11/10/07 09:15 AM
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I'm also curious about the .90g number. I think I read on XV's site yesterday that Level one is good for 1.0g.
In our testing on track using on-board telemetry we've measured 1.0 G sustained (not peak) lateral G with our Level I Suspension and the Level II measured 1.1 G. Car and Driver measures this using a 300 ft circle and timing it. On the car we brought to them they measured it as .90 G vs .68 G for the stock car. As a point of reference Car and Driver measures a C6 Z06 Vette at .99 G. Measured on track that car pulls 1.2 G. G's measured on a track will always be higher than those done on a 300ft circle, and again these are sustained, not peak G numbers.
Our test vehicle was lighter than the one we brought to C&D since it has: two batteries, power windows/doorlocks/decklid, two amps, two subs, speaker box, sound deadener in doors/cabin/roof/trunk, finished trunk and power seat, which the test car didn't. Test car was several hundred pounds lighter.
We also ran the car at C&D w/ KDW's rather than KD's (or Michelin's) - the difference being a wet tire rather than a dry, which would bump the numbers.
Handling is more subjective than just lateral G. What the G's don't show is how the car handles overall.
Here's what Car and Driver had to say about that: "Despite the weight the restomod handled fantastically".
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Re: Alterkation, XV Level II and MagnumForce front end
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11/10/07 09:20 AM
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Yeah, their comparison to a late model Camaro or Mustang made me think they don't buy the XV "Building modern Supercars from classic Muscle Cars" tag line.
That comparison was on acceleration. We wanted to go out to them with more HP, but wasn't time to make that happen with that car.
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Nevermind the comparison to a 37 yr old T/A. Albiet a sub 30K mi T/A, but the suspension bushings are about as firm as a Notell Motel mattress and the engine is likely tired (sunk exhaust valve seats) from burning unleaded gas for most of its life. The carb probably needs a rebuild and some tuning as well as the distributor.
They got it wrong on the mileage on the T/A, that wasn't correct. T/A was all gone through and freshened up. Motor was freshly rebuilt by us and carb setup was dialed in including tuning it with wideband 02.
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Re: Alterkation, XV Level II and MagnumForce front end
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11/10/07 09:37 AM
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Go to www.bigblockdart.com That's Bill's site and it has a very good forum section. There HAS been comments from several people useing these, but that wasn't what was asked about @ the start of this mess, the basic anwser is NO. The next is NO it's not gonna happen anytime soon. Cleaning this C.F. of a thread would require removing most of the posts-mine included and editing out the posturing and unveried "claims" by the maufacturers.-Yah right that's gonna happen. There's also the Control Freak unit that looks very similar to the Alter-K, guess it's not that "inferior" to the XV design, or they would have knocked that off Time for me to get ready for the Fall Fling
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Re: Alterkation, XV Level II and MagnumForce front end
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11/11/07 03:03 AM
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Since we have had posting from AlterK, XV, and now Magnumforce here is my challenger to all of you;
The first one to produce a 2" drop, disc brake spindle for $200 a pair, I know of a dozen or two buyers who will pick up a set.
A dozen? Dude, try several hundred if not a thousand plus people who would buy them tomorrow. If every other company out there can offer Mustang II dropped spindles for around $200-300, theres no reason that someone couldn't offer the 73 and up mopar dropped spindles for the same price. If I had the money on hand to invest, I would look into having them made myself. Talk about a money making opportunity.
Thing is, it would work on every 62-72 B-body, E-body, and all A-bodies. It would even work on FMJ cars, but it would be slightly shorter.
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