Pic from photoshoot

[SOCOMech]

In my dealings with Rigid Ind. lighting, I was lucky enough to be given a spot in an article and photoshoot for the upcoming innagural edition of 'Offroad Illustrated'. The photoshoot was at the new Lucas Oil offroad track at Firebird Raceway. I just upgraded to an Addictive Desert Design front bumper w/ a 40" Rigid Ind. led lightbar. My previous set up was a 20" and 4 of their "dually" lights and this one 40" is insane. Here's one of the pics that was sent to me.

Whats great about the Raptor is being able to do about 6 of these, then drive home with the steering wheel straight and no pulling:-D

 

[cobrakidz]

Great pic........

 

[GOTSVT?]

Nice! Love the white too!

 

[VRM III]

Sweet pic bro

:beer:

 

[sunburned]

Damn, I'd love to have a bigass LED bar like that on my Jeep, but they cost more than my entire 3-link front suspension lol.

Truck looks sick, congrats on the pics.


BTW, how hard are the landings on something like that. I know the suspension is designed for it, but it still can't be all that soft. Does the truck ever bounce back up off the ground when it hits or do you ever feel out of control during a landing?

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

damn that looks like fun

 

[SOCOMech]

Damn, I'd love to have a bigass LED bar like that on my Jeep, but they cost more than my entire 3-link front suspension lol.

Truck looks sick, congrats on the pics.


BTW, how hard are the landings on something like that. I know the suspension is designed for it, but it still can't be all that soft. Does the truck ever bounce back up off the ground when it hits or do you ever feel out of control during a landing?

Thanks guys! The landings really depend on how high you are, obviously. For the most part, you can feel the suspension doing it's job but you can also still tell that it's 6k lbs. you're hucking through the air. This particular pic wasn't the highest I got.....on one jump, one of the guys taking pics said the bottom of my tires were a good 4 ft. off the ground. On a bigger jump like that, you get one decent bounce after you land but then it settles pretty quickly and goes. You never feel out of control though and the landings aren't hard enough to physically hurt. Jumping it is fun and all but, I really taking it through woop sections....it's AMAZING in that aspect. Here's a vid of me in a woop section in Glamis not too long ago......
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijohgQZ7cd4"]YouTube - Raptor at Glamis[/nomedia]

 

[fuelonempty]

Awesome pic and vid... you done a perch adjustment as well??

The black bumper looks great with the Method wheels

 

[sunburned]

Thanks guys! The landings really depend on how high you are, obviously. For the most part, you can feel the suspension doing it's job but you can also still tell that it's 6k lbs. you're hucking through the air. This particular pic wasn't the highest I got.....on one jump, one of the guys taking pics said the bottom of my tires were a good 4 ft. off the ground. On a bigger jump like that, you get one decent bounce after you land but then it settles pretty quickly and goes. You never feel out of control though and the landings aren't hard enough to physically hurt. Jumping it is fun and all but, I really taking it through woop sections....it's AMAZING in that aspect. Here's a vid of me in a woop section in Glamis not too long ago......
YouTube - Raptor at Glamis

Good lord, I'm sold. Starting my search for a used Raptor in about a year.

 

[kidlightning5]

That is a awesome pic

 

[SOCOMech]

Awesome pic and vid... you done a perch adjustment as well??

The black bumper looks great with the Method wheels

No perch adjustment, still on the stock setting. With alot of people doing that now, I kinda like how mine has that hunkered down look in the front, especially with the Method's, it just looks like it's mean.

 

[yuke175]

video of the suspension is impressive

 

[SID297]

Sweet.

 

[justthebest]

Sweet picture. Congrats on the article too!

 

[justthebest]

When's the first issue coming out?

 

[SOCOMech]

When's the first issue coming out?

First part of January from what I was told.

 

[Gus00SVTL]

Great picture! Do you have the light bar hooked up to one of the aux switches?

 

[SOCOMech]

Great picture! Do you have the light bar hooked up to one of the aux switches?

Yep, aux 1. A very nice wiring harness is included when you purchase a light from them and it's super easy to install.

 

[Gus00SVTL]

Oh thats awesome. Gonna put this on the wish list! hahaha

 

[SOCOMech]

Oh thats awesome. Gonna put this on the wish list! hahaha

If the 40" is more than you want, they have a 20" that fits perfectly in the stock lower grill opening. Also, if you haven't seen, you can check out svtoffroad.com and fordraptorforum.com as well.