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Why I never had much confidence in Kenny Brown parts
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<blockquote data-quote="thomas_moran" data-source="post: 3251013" data-attributes="member: 23694"><p>Hey Bruce! Man that's lame... As someone who's broken 2 KB rear upper control arms I can relate to what your felling. When we were dealing with Kenny Brown we had very positive experiences. When the first control arm broke (we were one of the first to run them is what they told us) we contacted them and they made new upper arms for us out of Chrome Moly. The first ones were mild steel and broke after about 3 events or so. </p><p></p><p>The second arm broke the first time we went to CMP 3 years ago... It turned out that when they made the new arms for us out of Chrome Moly the piece of metal tubing that the bushing sits in was ERW tubing... Huge screw up on their part... The cool thing was that when we got home from CMP there was a message from Brad at Kenny Brown on our machine telling us that they heard through the grape vine about what happened to us and that a new part was already being shipped to us and it was all free. Brad was the only guy we ever dealt with so I can't speak for the whole company but that guy knew how to take care of customers...</p><p></p><p>On the topic of the KB IRS as a whole I think it works pretty good once you get it all sorted out. IMO the IRS in the cobra was a compromised design to begin with and Kenny did his best to make it work. Kenny seemed to be the only one to really work with the IRS and get it right. Everyone else in the market place seems to think it sucks so much they didn't want to spend time developing parts and tell people to put a stick axle in their car. Its cool to see guys like Mark and Tone proving that an IRS can and will work really well if its sorted right.</p><p></p><p> Keep in mind that as much as we all love to pound around the track in our mustangs they aren't purpose built race cars and stuff is going to break no matter whats on them. </p><p></p><p>Now that Kenny seems to be out of business we're in the same boat as you if anything breaks. Our plan if a control arm snaps is to build new ones ourselves using the old one as a template and making it stronger. Luckily our cage builder is good friends with a guy who used to design suspensions for British touring cars so we should be in good hands if anything ever breaks.</p><p></p><p>Maybe we should consider starting a support group for people with KB IRS <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p>Just my 2 cents...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thomas_moran, post: 3251013, member: 23694"] Hey Bruce! Man that's lame... As someone who's broken 2 KB rear upper control arms I can relate to what your felling. When we were dealing with Kenny Brown we had very positive experiences. When the first control arm broke (we were one of the first to run them is what they told us) we contacted them and they made new upper arms for us out of Chrome Moly. The first ones were mild steel and broke after about 3 events or so. The second arm broke the first time we went to CMP 3 years ago... It turned out that when they made the new arms for us out of Chrome Moly the piece of metal tubing that the bushing sits in was ERW tubing... Huge screw up on their part... The cool thing was that when we got home from CMP there was a message from Brad at Kenny Brown on our machine telling us that they heard through the grape vine about what happened to us and that a new part was already being shipped to us and it was all free. Brad was the only guy we ever dealt with so I can't speak for the whole company but that guy knew how to take care of customers... On the topic of the KB IRS as a whole I think it works pretty good once you get it all sorted out. IMO the IRS in the cobra was a compromised design to begin with and Kenny did his best to make it work. Kenny seemed to be the only one to really work with the IRS and get it right. Everyone else in the market place seems to think it sucks so much they didn't want to spend time developing parts and tell people to put a stick axle in their car. Its cool to see guys like Mark and Tone proving that an IRS can and will work really well if its sorted right. Keep in mind that as much as we all love to pound around the track in our mustangs they aren't purpose built race cars and stuff is going to break no matter whats on them. Now that Kenny seems to be out of business we're in the same boat as you if anything breaks. Our plan if a control arm snaps is to build new ones ourselves using the old one as a template and making it stronger. Luckily our cage builder is good friends with a guy who used to design suspensions for British touring cars so we should be in good hands if anything ever breaks. Maybe we should consider starting a support group for people with KB IRS :D Just my 2 cents... [/QUOTE]
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