I can confab with Dennis Olthoff and others who have forgotten more than I ever knew. There is a support network out there, people just need to use it. The GT40 web Wiki was a good idea that didn't receive enough support to continue and I will take some of the blame for not contributing and promoting it as I should have. Having a source with pictures and repair/improvement/modifications as well as the instructions is a great idea. Perhaps we can revive it..........
Lynn's wiki concept is
exactly what should be done, but the "factory" needs to actively drive it. And I understand the idea of there being a passive and informal support network but that's simply not enough for a complex 6-figure product that exists in the hundreds distributed across the US and Europe
All owners and shops (including local post-build maintenance shops) need ready access to
all the technical information, and if there is a concern about proprietary information or product image the factory, the dealers, we owners and the independent shops need a private place to post information and conduct technical conversations. That would make discussions like the recent shock-mount issue go much more smoothly and with far less product image damage.
There are bits and pieces of this all over the place but someone needs to drive pulling it all together, and the logical, and probably only practical, choice is Superformance itself. They already have a website and they even have a "support" link that directs owners to SCOF (for reasons that I guess are historical) but SCOF is entirely inadequate for the GT40 for a variety of reasons. Superformance has the information. They have the financial motivation. And any number of us technically-inclined owners would be delighted to contribute as we do here.
Such a centralized and controlled-access portal would not be hard to set up, would save owners, dealers, installers and post-install shops a tremendous amount of time, would get the information out in a proactive rather than "call every month or listen to rumors" fashion, could serve as a profitable sales portal for upgrade and fix-it kits, and overall would result in happier owners who would go on to serve as product champions that would result in increased sales of the technically-superior Superformance GT40 against it's equal and lower-cost competitors. It just calls for a little initiative on the part of Superformance, the prime information holder. Leaving this in the hands of SCOF, Lynn Miner, GT40s.com, etc. is crazy. Superformance needs to control it's post-sales image, owner-experience and destiny.
This is a slam dunk.