The vid pretty much sums it up :yes
The need for static camber is reduced, as the amount of camber is sustained throughout the path of the front wheels travel. The SLA is a hardcore set-up for both cornering and braking, but is damn hard to justify for a street-only car. Griggs and Agent47 are obviously the big players in the SLA set-up and both will improve the items mentioned here. Due to the adjustable nature of all four links of the arms, camber, caster and fore/aft wheel location adjustability, either arm should be capable of making the identical path of travel. I think this comes down to an issue of strength, more than anything else. The Agent47 says it is lighter and weight being an important part of an all-out racecar, this can be an advantage. The "closest competitor" (Griggs is the only other maker a commercially marketed SLA of which I am aware) is by inferrence the heavier of the two. It has been my experience, that Griggs will not only look to design, but build the **** out of something to avoid it failing. Lighter is nice, but if a part fails and you are out of a race or crash, that is of little comfort in a heap of metal on the side of the track
Often referred to as "paying for a name", one pays for the reputation of a company/product and a big reason why Griggs is more expensive.
Does it mean that Agent47 will win more races because it is lighter... :no
Does it mean that Griggs will lose more races because it is heavier... :no
The difficulty in making a comparison falls to a rate of success/failure, in most cases. There are SOO many subtle differences in the set-up of a race car, no one item can ever be 100% attributed to a given win. For me, this came down to a complete system of parts that are all designed to work together. Could the Agent47 SLA be made to work with the rest of the Griggs front end...? :yes It would take no more than a little fabricating of some subtle design differences. Just take a look at Ernesto Rocco's car to see this first hand. In my mind it is all about the set-up for a given set of conditions and they change with every single race and over the course of the day.
Jazzer
