If anything this will benefit us the customer.

Outsourcing is a part of the business. My Deaver spring steel was manufactured in Pa. shipped to a spring plant in Pa. formed into leafs and then assembled and tested in Santa Ana Ca. Even Calmini gets their leaf spring matterial from someone somewhere. No one expects them to bang out set afgter set of Full Traction or Calmini leaf springs. .

Many SLR products , even if they are manufacturered by an outside vendor, are proprietary. Even if you knew who made the 300m SLR torsion bars they would not sell them to you. They are his products by his design made to his specs by a company that specializes in torsion bars and axle shafts made with 300M material.

But outsourcing to specialists is the best way to unsure that you are recieving the best product for your vehicle made by those that specialize in that product.

Let me clarify "living in someone elses shop."

Porter has a huge shop. They had an entire wing ( seperate doors and lift)that they weren't using for anything but storage. So SLR is subletting the space along with hiring new fabricators. They have their own machine shop, fabricators and engineers that SLR has access to and (I've witnessed first hand) SLR is sharing their tools with them as well.

SLR is a seperate independant business than PRC though. Although at various times they are free to assit each other and they do. It is a great working relationship in a very large, very busy off-road racing shop.

Porter is a first class operation that has build winning race cars and the very high profile Pfleuger race truck has doe a lot to bring them attention on a large scale. They are able to hire the best fabricators and engineers. With SLR having a close working relationship and this new access to tools, experience and man power, it not only means that more and better products will be made in-house but the quality of future products can only continue to improve.