TMCP #428: Blake Foster, SpeedTech Performance USA; “Big Front Tire” Pro-Touring Suspension from the Ground Up!

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Robert Kibbe

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week our guest was Blake Foster, President of SpeedTech Performance USA. Speedtech is known for many things, but as of late I've noticed a LOT of their product in the field, at SEMA, and at the track. The common denominator: BIG front tires are included in the suspension packaging, even on cars where there is often no practical way to do so (such as an A-Body GM car like a Chevelle or GTO). Blake's mottos is, "why make great suspension just to run a 245 tire?" With that said...I needed to know more!

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 428. This week, our guest is Blake Foster
0:05.9	from SpeedTech. As you know, the pro touring segment of the muscle car world is probably close
0:10.9	to my favorite, if not totally my favorite. For the past few years, I have noticed the chassis
0:16.5	systems that SpeedTech has been bringing to events, and I will admit, I thought they were probably
0:21.7	too much race car, not enough street car for me. I assumed they couldn't put huge front tire
0:27.0	packaging in a muscle car, so it's out some big trade-off, but it turns out that trade-off
0:31.4	isn't in comfort and driveability like I thought it was. And you're going to hear that here,
0:36.6	but make no mistake when they
0:38.3	started down this road, they started with one thing in mind. One of the mandates was the geometry's
0:44.0	got to be good, and it's got to fit a big tire. Why are we building good suspension to run a
0:49.0	245 or a 255 on the front.
0:59.4	This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast.
1:02.1	Brought to you by National Parks Depot.
1:08.2	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:12.7	Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them,
1:20.4	this is the place for you. Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, fun interview here with Blake from
1:24.9	Speed Tech coming up. I've been wanting to talk to these guys for some time.
1:28.3	I've seen a lot of people running their equipment. I'm totally going to admit up front. I assume I said this in the interview, but they're putting a lot of big front tire on A-body cars. And that's something I'm interested in learning about as well as everything they do. So hopefully you are as well. You're going to learn the whole shebang. Either way,
1:51.9	so that'll be fun. A few things for you here. This coronavirus pandemic is not only a bummer to our world right now, but our industry. And I'm not going to lie to you. Things are quiet. I have
1:57.6	really been able to catch up on every project I can think of as of late.
2:03.1	I even lined my new toolbox drawers.
2:06.2	It's getting crazy.
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