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Can i ask Grim why it is that you guys rip on EDGE for such a bad design of a buggy but yet you and many others build them. If it was such a bad design why bother with it. Do you have any plans on bringing something of your own out. Don't get me wrong i understand that there are issues with the Barracuda. And that you have had some issues with the way Tony/Edge have retaliated about some post on the forum. But you should understand that what if it was your company and how someone writing this stuff how you would feel about it. I know that you wouldn't like any bad press getting out about the work you do if there was anything wrong with it or just some thing that need work on it. Unlike the great workshop you have access to the EDGE do it pretty rough compared. Have you seen or been to the shop. There isn't a lot to work with. Have you been in or had much to do with R&D? Not to mention juggling all this while trying to satisfy customers, family and keeping up to date with forums. Tony runs a business, has to do R&D when he can to satisfy everyone and look at future designs all by himself. It take a lot of time to develop and test your designs. I can tell you that EDGE rely on the forum for feedback and help with there design. Look at what developed from the piranha and hypersprint. He done a bloody excellent job. Do you also realize that EDGE is one of the biggest off road distributors in AUS. That's a pretty good call for such a small workshop that works is a space that is no more bigger than the shed i have in my backyard.I have great respect for EDGE being that there in my own backyard and for an AUS company they make me proud that it has the aussie flag on it. If it wasn't for EDGE i wouldn't have done any of the work i do with solidworks and i am taking what i've learnt from the forum and building the cuda myself and designing my own buggy that suits me. I can understand the frustrations you get from the trouble you have had from the forum but you should really put yourself in there shoes and ask yourself if what your doing is good or not.
My suggestion, only run the 12" shocks in the rear. There is no reason to run them up front, the a-arms fowl on the frame before the shocks bottom out. POOR Design by the EDGE
Thanks Fabr, But I can't take all of the credit. With a-arms it's not too hard to do, especially when you have thousands of dollars worth of 3D para solid CAD software at your disposal. After I modeled the Edge's design with Auto Desk's Inventor, I could put the a-arms through their motion to check plunge. Tony, at the Edge, did a pretty good job of getting it close with the Edge plans. I only altered it a tiny bit with a slightly different rear upright.
Maaaate, I thought P.M's were meant to be private . You could have got your point across without naming and shaming the author who I'm assuming was trying to get his across in confidence...........As with the edge design, if you don't like it change it . No need to get bitter, no need to whinge. If you think you can do it better - do it!!! That's my opinion. I see the plans as a guide. There is a plethora of info on mods in various forums and the informed builder will do his research before starting his build. Its human nature to think your design is the best and react badly to criticism. Me, I choose to buy some things and make others. Some things break (doesn't mean I have to be happy about it though), tough titties, make it again so it doesn't. Just my opinion of course .
Its human nature to think your design is the best and react badly to criticism. Just my opinion of course .
If there are plain simple errors that the person will not acknowledge? Thats not even poor human nature either. Thats wrong. No reason not to fix or offer an update.
Your Cuda isn't perfect, but with the help of Doug and his sweet ass parts, Fabr, Spec, Yummi, Russel, Jet, Dave, DS, and many, many, many others, hell I'll even throw Reidy in there too and he hates me, I'll try to get it as close as I can.
Hell I've never even meet you!
Adam I have never said I hate you! Hell I've never even meet you! I do know that what I had ordered from you was not what I got! Weather it was a misscommunication or what Idon't know, to your credit you fixed it all up and I thanked you for it! I think Simon hit the nail on the head when he said that when you spend soooo much time designing something and building it to have someone tell in a certain way, that you may not really appreciate you may well get pissed off to say the least, you tend to get a bit protective of ya baby!! Hey?? Hey I don't know you may well be a nice guy in real life instead of a little smart arse!!! As you tend to come off on the site....