[Bruce Edwards]

Chas,

I am happy to hear that you have 21 years on your rack and it is still going strong. My concern is that no new racks are made and all of the ones available are like yours 20 years old. As I said in an earlier post on this subject I am going to recommend the modified rack to my customer. However I am going to check into finding other racks that may work with the ERA 289 car for my benefit and possibly for yours in the future.
Since the first Cobra my father and I built in the 80's till now we have been modifying cars to make them more serviceable. safer and more fun to drive. From building some of the first aluminum fuel tanks to adding power-steering to cars that the manufacture said could not be installed, to installing larger brake set ups as well as updated master cylinders for safety we are always looking for ways to make the cars we build better. I might point out that most of the things we have done to kits over the years now show up as standard equipment in the kit cars being sold today.
I never did say that anything was wrong with what Bob has done with the front end of his car or any other part of it. My only question was why use a 20 year old part for a new car and as I also posted earlier in this post if I do find something that will work for the car other than the Subaru rack I will pass that information on to Bob and he can do with it as he sees fit.
I am not sure why I have to keep defending myself on this issue. All I wanted to know was what the other rack ERA was that is used for the kit and what was done to it because I did not want to go to all the trouble to track down and rebuild a 20 year old rack when a new one in my opinion would be a better choice.
I have cut down racks before and that is not hard for us in my shop as we have access to a very large machine shop with some of the latest equipment. One of the things I enjoy doing is figuring out how things work and how to make them better.
I do this in my free time and not at my customers expense.
As just one more example of what we do and can do to help others, we sat down with Randy Hunter of Hunter kit cars and helped him redesign his frame to fit more engine and trans combinations in a few hours on a Saturday afternoon. We did that on our time and our dime to help him and all of his customers in the future get a better choice of options on his cars. So what was the harm in that?

Sincerely,