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Originally Posted by Solid_Ride
In a frontal crash, the engine drops down, the hood crumples up and the front longitudanal rails rear up and back. It takes quite a bit of energy to do those things. The Frame Locks are part of the equation of course, but the relative stiffness that it adds is comparitively very small as we assert. If you look at the photo of the dimunitive part, we think it is obvious, but perhaps it is not mechanically intuitive to everyone. You may be right. We are mechanically inclined engineers and perhaps we take that for granted.
Actually stiffer bumper attachments is nothing new. The Corvette has a very nice attachment as well as many high end European cars. The Civic is simply not in that price range for the manufacturer to consider spending more money to do this.
We did not test for crash because it does not merit that kind of testing in our opinion. We did however test for false air bag deployment and drove over pot holes and measured responses with and without the Frame Locks installed. We stand behind the data in part due to ethical and moral reasons, but also for financial reasons. Product liability is very serious business. Our disclaimers are consistent with that of the industry.
Thank you for your opinion. Most after market companies do not take their products to car club website dialogue for fear of negative postings whether they are founded or not. I can understand why they avoid this now. Consultants actally discouraged us from doing this. We are attempting to make a direct connection with our customers and have been open to whatever that may bring. Perhaps this is not the best way to market a product. Conventional marketing is advertising, exposure and publicity.
David Lawson
Korbach Performance
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thank you for all your responses and ability to field questions and doubts of others, this has been very informative and i think that people will begin to understand the capabiliities that there is in your system as soon as there are more of them out there and being used.
if you need a test dummy give me a call, i would be glad to do so
Thank you,
Eric