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Originally Posted by jayhawk261
I understand the question for sure. First and foremost, Roger's chassis is designed and built primarily with track in mind. It is a full backbone chassis with shear panels that make it rigid. From a structural standpoint (and I'm a structural engineer), nothing on the market that I'm aware of matches it.
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I'm not a structural engineer, but instead a jack-of-all trades (and master of none) civil engineer (and formerly a Jayhawker too). But I had enough structural education such that I was also very impressed with his chassis design when I was researching cars too. I suspect some of it's structural parameters would probably compare fairly well to some current production cars. And, the body appeared to be of very high quality.
But even back in 2008 and 2009 when I was shopping around, he appeared to be dropping or had dropped out of sight.
I'm also very impressed with the engineering in ERA's car (although it's not designed so much with competition track work in mind). You might want to check them out.