I can only speak from personal experience......
Great post. Thank you.. I do not agree with much of it though but I enjoyed reading it!!.
Please post more.You and I are basically the same, equipped to analyze only by trial&error (hereinafter "TE". I have no engineering training (thank the car Gods for that). Theory presumes a identical starting point. Morgan don't have one.
I have what I read, what I have experienced and the 100s (1000s?) of Morgans I have been asked to help sort in the last few decades. That doesn't say anything. One can use the same non-ideal choice over and over again and think it is carved in stone for no reason other than they have been using it forever.
The MMC even fell into that trap in the front for a lifetime! Professionals fall victim to that more than amateurs as theory can be restrictive and inapplicable. It is a good question on who changes the world more, theory or T&E. Einstein or Edison.
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In these areas you address the trad Morgans' astounding lack of weight and its flexing frame, each one different from other trads let alone normal autombile fare. cars. T&E is smarter method, trad by trad..like you and I have done. I have tried everything, including Biltsteins. Unlike most people, if a new component isn't better than the one on the car, I toss it. I try most things with as little time as possible beyond my last ride with something else. I only know a few others who are/were like that. Most owners keep on anything they opted and have paid for. My wife is my harshest judge. She knows she is going to be spending weeks at a time on her side of the car.
BUT there is an ultimate Law for T&E that I learned from Luddite almost a quarter of century ago.
Namely, if you want to analyze any component and learn anything about it, you can only change one component at a time. and see if that improves anything or degrades it. If not, toss it unless you choose to try it again later with another original starting point. More than one component from a specific datum does not prove or teach anything. One falls into the trap of a factorial multiplication of possibilities which mean nothing. I learned that one 22 years ago from Luddite.
For example, if you change 4 components affecting the same area simultaneously, the possibility of what right or wrong is 4x3x2x1 is 24. Nothing learnedt teaches nothing. Too vague. A happy result means you blame EVERYTHING that was on it before and laud everything that you put it on it after. But that conclusion is anything but empirical.
For example, in this case, the very best dampers will do little for lousy leaf springs.
Keep on investigating. The trad community very much needs more like at this point in time
I "Let's break it down separating the front from the rear"
Great idea. I will address your post in two parts. FRONT and REAR
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