I admire your devotion to the cause but, with nearly fifty years of engineering behind me, my motto has always been KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. A few months ago, I read a car article about whether peak car had occurred at the end of the 1990s. I would have set that date a decade earlier at the end of the 1980s. Cars from the 1970s were awful mainly because I remember owning and working on them. However, after the introduction of Japanese cars from 1960s, British and American car manufacturers eventually caught on and caught up, producing cars instead of rust buckets. In particular mechanical engineering enormously improved following the introduction of Finite Element Analysis into college, university and industry. Then they introduced plastics to make the car lighter and more efficient by lowering weight. Where they went wrong was the introduction of unnecessary electronics, which from a practical or theoretical perspective, must reduce reliability because reliability is inversely proportional to complexity. Electronic ignition and injection is my limit because everything else is an unnecessary toy, which adds weight. I assume everyone knows that Canbus was first introduced to cars in 1986 to minimise the projected cost, weight and complexity of a car loom. Now ask yourself why a simple headlamp cluster for a modern Land Rover or for any other modern car is £££££ these days and Canbus provides the answer. I understand the latest Tesla is fitted with 64 micro-processors to control every aspect of that vehicle and imagine the ££££ cost to diagnose a problem with one of those vehicles ??. The P38 was and still is a luxury car but, after 25yrs of hot, cold, wet, dry cycling, everything starts to fade and break. Plastics become brittle, crimp contacts corrode and fracture. That impressive feature on your car eventually becomes an irritation and that's the point I reached last Saturday after my suspension failed again. So back to KISS and simple mechanical springs and dampers. Cheers
. the "kit" alone is over 400quid with Vat.
