ISLAMATRON wrote:blobslosak wrote:How can you tell how reliable a car will be by looking at it?
That is what makes a good engineer... if the suspension parts are paper thin and being heat blasted by the exhaust than it's fragility becomes more appareent but the further one goes into one's engineering career you start to recognize more and different modes of failure. And thus can see much less evident fragility.
The short answer to your question is experience.
Do you get the super 3d x-ray photos then? Because, engineer or not, unless you understand the core design philosophy, you are completely ingorant of the function of any part that you see in a picture. Maybe it looks fragile because it is a pull-rod instead of a push-rod? You cannot know this unless you were part of the design team at RBT, or have quoted statements from the people that were.
Experience would tell you that a picture is not the complete machine, and making educated hypotheses from these pictures will not always give you the right answer.
Please, don't try to pass off your speculations based upon your experience as the final word on the subject. Some of us prefer to think and read for ourselves.
And PS: What happens if those "suspension parts are paper thin and being heat blasted by the exhaust than it's fragility becomes more appareent" parts are specifically designed to guide that hot exhaust to the tyre to speed the heating process? You cannot know these things because you were not there, and neither were we.
