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I bet your a big deal over at Dezertrangers!!!!!!!!!!!
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I bet your a big deal over at Dezertrangers!!!!!!!!!!!
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Haha he's only a mod lol...
i don't see how that makes a difference.
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thats a cool settup for the rear, send me the plans, PM me for my adress...
really though, how do you like the FOA's?
i ordered a set of 2.5 non rezi's for the front of my 150, and am kinda curious as to how good they hold up.
Motochris (the owner) is on shoptalkforums (for volkswagens) a lot, so that was kinda the main reason for me ordering, and of course price...
really though, how do you like the FOA's?
i ordered a set of 2.5 non rezi's for the front of my 150, and am kinda curious as to how good they hold up.
Motochris (the owner) is on shoptalkforums (for volkswagens) a lot, so that was kinda the main reason for me ordering, and of course price...
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i been thinking of running coilover cantilever to maximize my bedspace in the back and to maximize underhood space in the front in case i want more then one turbo. cantilevering just the shocks many have suggested...but not what i want to do with regular type shocks
why the fawk anyone would need your exact setup is past me, but not sharing it is also past me
. even for a cost....based on what i been doing the past 20 years...if i do run a cantilever setup...somebody will buy it off me and i will be back on leafs again till i build another one unless it turned out i didnt like it. then i will be happy to have sold it...
i am not bagging on ya here, but at a place like this i dont see it being a hard core data grab from the average shlub hoping to bank millions on others designs.
i do really appreciate the work though. it is a very impressive setup.
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It's not his own homebuilt kit, there is a guy that stands to make money off this, as part of his business. The cantilever setup that Mac has allows him to have a full bed, while still pulling 15" of travel. His setup will run very similar to mine, similar travel and similar spring setups, except he has a full bed and only had to get 10" shocks. Compare that to my set up which is pulling 16", with 16" shocks, but I have very limited bed space. I basically have room for two coolers in my bed and nothing else. I like Mac's setup, but I also like not being asked to help people move their cr*p 
thats a cool settup for the rear, send me the plans, PM me for my adress...
really though, how do you like the FOA's?
i ordered a set of 2.5 non rezi's for the front of my 150, and am kinda curious as to how good they hold up.
Motochris (the owner) is on shoptalkforums (for volkswagens) a lot, so that was kinda the main reason for me ordering, and of course price...
they used to sponsor dezertrangers so i had seen a lot of the good and the bad about them there. but for the price they're great. mine have no leaks, and when i took them apart to re-valve there were no metal shavings or any debris inside like some people had found previously. i've had them for long enough now that i think any problems would have shown up, but nothing yet.
i've seen a set up in the front like you're referring to. it was pretty cool, but then again it was just a 'lift kit' so i don't know how well it performed.
also like robby said above me, this kit is built by a shop and my truck is just the guinea pig. i didn't design the kit myself and have him build it since i don't have the tools. i probably didn't make it clear enough in my first post.
I'd love this setup on my truck, as I use every bit of bed space when I go camping (I don't travel light, I travel prepared ).
Yet it would be great to be able to haul a$$ down a dirt road and go off some mild jumps....with my current setup I need 14" travel shocks for down travel but 12" travel shocks for uptravel. My 14" travel Bilsteins are a tadge long, so I worry about blowing them up when going real fast on crappy dirt roads or coming off a ledge at anything over about 15mph.
Let us know when it is in production and for sale, until then keep up the good work
).Yet it would be great to be able to haul a$$ down a dirt road and go off some mild jumps....with my current setup I need 14" travel shocks for down travel but 12" travel shocks for uptravel. My 14" travel Bilsteins are a tadge long, so I worry about blowing them up when going real fast on crappy dirt roads or coming off a ledge at anything over about 15mph.
Let us know when it is in production and for sale, until then keep up the good work
it is availible. contact brandon @ www.btf-fabrication.com. your best bet is to give him a call, he doesn't have internet set up at his shop/house yet
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