Well, it looks like things are finally coming together...and we might have a possible solution.

However, in order to justify the costs of further development, we'd like to, at the very least, gauge interest first.

So, with a show of hands... who'd be interested in an IRS conversion kit for your car... and how much would you be willing to pay? Please post.

Hope to hear some positive responses.

To the mods: this is non-profit right now, so please don't boot. If we do end up marketing the kit, we will become a supporting advertiser.

Daniel Keen

 

Interested, but I'd have to hear more details and see some pics before I'd be willing to give a price and a definate will/won't buy.

 

People have done a C4 irs rear conversion into 3rd gens, so I dont see why it would be any harder to do it to a 4th gen. The rears of the cars are identical.

 

I more "into" drag racing than autoX or road racing...so I wouldn't even consider going to an IRS.
Just giving you the reasoning behind why I wouldn't.

 

The diff at this time is the Ford 8.8, giving a wide range of posi options and more strength than the stock 10-bolt.

My intention is to have a unit comparable to the C5 in terms of performance.

The IRS will be designed by a Cornell University graduate with a Masters in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has done several like projects - even pushrod actuated suspensions.

Thanks for the responses - right now we were just making sure we had some market. We're broke at the moment, so any development money is expensive to us Basically we wanted to make sure we could sell some before investing in some half-cars to work on this.

The C4 IRS rear conversion was quite sub-optimal. Without building an entire subframe for it, it was more of a hot-rod street cruiser project. This will be designed for competition.

At the moment I can't give out more information, and my apologies for that.

Thanks,
Dan
(Sorry about the website... Time Warner has decided to not work anymore...)

 

well, first of all the irs needs to be a bolt-in... something that can be done by folks not possessing a masters in mech engineering. second, abs and traction control needs to an option. third, quaility shocks of the re-valveable type (bilstein) or adjustable type (koni) need to work.

if you get those covered (and a resonable price), then you've got a customer here.

 

What I would want to see in an IRS conversion is not only something that will make my car handle remarkably better, but also give a substantually stronger rear end then is in the car now. No point paying money to have it break on you. Not that the 10 bolt is crap, it just has its weak points. Cost is hard to say. Probably be willing to pay a little more than I would for a 12 bolt setup. Hey, you can always use my car as a test mule if you want. I will beat the heck out of the rear end for you.