Your right I should not have compared Pro Comp to a real suspension kit. Maybe I should have said Total Chaos or Giant. I was just using a few popular names that people would know to get what I was saying.
As far as width, that is a small part of it, and I get unless you want to go with a custom wheel you are limited. But I assure you someone will be willing to do so for an advantage. I also get you are a manufacture of UTV suspension kits. Thus why your kit has to have limitations, and while you could build a more engineered kit you sort of paint yourself in the corner when you have to build for the masses.
What I'm talking about when I say so many rules not taken advantage of. I'm talking suspension geometry (In know you have to use stock manufactured pivot points. I also know there are a few well established teams that have been around for a long time who might have be fibbing on this rule a bit!) How many teams are just buying long travel kits and bolting them on? Most! How many have actually cycled the suspension and looked at caster, camber, wheel scrub, bump steer, shock placement, steering placement. How many have built in adjustments to some of these points? How many know why a-arm race cars use front steer vs rear steer? How many have looked at how bad the rear suspension cycles on a Polaris? How many are actually calculating weight into building their cars? How many understand sprung & unsprung weight? I know most of what I have mentioned takes money, Trust me I know! There is a reason why my racing has been sidelined for awhile now. But when I was racing these are all the places we looked. We still have our 5/1600, and to this day there are things we had done that were ahead if its time. We were out of the box thinkers, plus the people close to me were guys like Mike Julson @ Jimco, John Marking (Fox) John Cooley (Alumi Craft) Tim Lawrence (TLR) BTW I dont know if most know this, both Marking & Cooley started their carriers at Jimco Race cars. What I did is take as much as I could from TT's, Class 1, Class 10 and so on and see how to adapt that to a 5/1600 car. Then when I got to race the Jimco in house class 10 & class 1 car, I got to learn and understand more about a-arm suspension.
I read that your new car is in the 1800 lbs range. If this is true then you are on the right track. Most of these cars need to go on a diet.
Please dont take what I'm saying as putting down the class or your product. I'm not! I want nothing more then to see this class grow. I want to see this class in the 4 wheel mix and not racing with bikes. Why is it the 1600 cars are OK to race with bigger classes, yet the UTV is not? I just see so much untapped potential and have to bite my tongue at imes. But like all things un-tapping that potential that can be a double edged sword too. I've also seen allot of classes get ruined over the years by someone coming in and dominating or out spending the competition. This is why I made my comment in another thread about wanting to see another manufacture besides Polaris win races and the Championships this year. Competition across the class is a good thing. It keeps the manufactures involved and keeps the class growing in a positive direction.