Can I cut here? (QA1 upper control arm issue)

72bluNblu said
Rob, I try not to start crap around here, I really do. But you’re 100% wrong on this, and I’m not going to let it slide just because you think you have more experience and don’t respect my education and background. It’s a safety issue, and you are wrong.

It’s not about “everybody doing things the same way”. What you suggested would reduce the strength of that UCA. Period. It’s not “all in how you look at something”. It’s Physics. It’s metallurgy and materials science. Bottom line is, it’s engineering. Cross sectional area is a basic principle in structural analysis, and if you don’t understand that you’re not informed enough to have the opinion you’ve got.

If something was “that way originally” then somebody figured out it was strong enough for that application. Different applications and suspension designs can have very different strength requirements.

Guys with a high school education don’t design cars anymore for a reason. Experience can only take you so far.

I hear you guy. But your condescension reeks. You're not right about everything. I'll tell you what too, I can call what QA1 did there shade tree. Look where the control arm post is welded to the bushing shell. Were it centered up, instead off to one side BADLY, it would have stood a chance of clearing and no mods to the car might have been necessary. THEY don't get it 100% right either.

And I never bragged about experience here. I simply said people do things different ways man, that's all. DO YOU have a physics and metallurgy meter handy? Probably not, so you're really talking out of your back side here, just as much as I am. You didn't design the control arm anymore than I. You don't know the variances (and there are some) anymore than I. I don't really know who in the world you think you are being so condescending here. I have not done that to you. Were we standing side by side, you'd be missing some teeth right about now. So, with that, I'll put you back on ignore where I had removed you because I really do respect your knowledge, which you have vast amounts of. And you're probably right here, I agree 100%. But your delivery stinks and I don't have to put up with it.