Anybody running the RMS AlterKation? Was it really worth the cost?
Well you know everything, so you must know how much weight I saved. I also know all of these systems are a trade off. I was posting what worked for me in those situations take it for what it's worth.
Ha! I definitely don't know everything, never claimed to, not even on the very limited topic of torsion bar suspension.
As for your weight savings, I asked you. You're the one that made a point of emphasizing what a big difference it was, I figured you actually knew what you were paying for. I'm just going off of what Denny said, he builds the HDK set up, he should know. Even if you went from a stock power steering set up to a manual rack it's probably around 60 lbs or so. Hardly worth paying $5k for, and that's not a like-to-like comparison. I know if I were going to cut a $5k check to save some weight I'd know
exactly how much weight I was going to save, down to the ounce. Maybe I'm just a cheap bastard though.
There's no doubt that the RMS works, and I've never disputed that. It does. It's not a bad system at all, and coilover conversions have their place. There are advantages to the conversion, more space, rack and pinion steering, easy tuning, etc. The thing is, you didn't just post what works for you. What you said was that you're sure that the RMS "is superior" for handling, and that the price of upgrading the torsion bar suspension "get(s) you near a conversion kit pretty fast" Both of those claims are false unless you've got evidence I've never seen before. The fastest autoX and road race set up Mopars are still torsion bar cars. And I posted the price break down on the upgrade I did on my car, you can see what costs more and it's not the upgraded torsion bars set up.
You like the RMS? Awesome, a lot of people do. It's a great piece and it absolutely has it's place. But I'm tired of seeing claims made about it that either aren't true, or at best aren't being backed up with any kind of facts/evidence. Let people weigh the actual facts and make a decision.