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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SilverBolt" data-source="post: 1000094" data-attributes="member: 765">Late to the show.  Everyone dissing on the not stock suspension for competition should take a little look at Porsche.  The Porsche GT3 is a purpose built race car to compete in the Porsche Cup and other GT race events.  The car has to be street legal to meet homologation rules.  Keep in mind the car starts at more than $200k.  Walk the grid at any track and see if you can find a single car with the factory suspension.  Spoiler alert, there aren't any.  The point is that suspension on a race vehicle is a very personal area.  There is no such thing as "the best".  What works for me may or may not work for others.  Ford put together a solid all around package knowing the 95%+ percent of the time the truck is on the road.  That 5% offroad the suspension is more capable than the majority of the drivers.  Then there are those of us that want the most performance possible and will do what Ford did and ditch the stock suspension.  In a sense they are doing us a big favor and testing our likely mods before we lay out any $$.  Now creating a class that has no other competitors is rather genius.  To the uniformed Ford is winning everything.  The marketing value of that is huge.  The rest of us know it's more than a little cheesy but at least they are out there beating on it.  I don't see any other manufacturers doing anything even close.</blockquote>