Home
What's new
Latest activity
Authors
Store
Latest reviews
Search products
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New listings
New products
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
Cart
Cart
Loading…
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Search titles only
By:
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Change style
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
Lightning Forums
2nd Generation
Suspension guys... are shocks worth it?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="oilwell1415" data-source="post: 9607219" data-attributes="member: 58424"><p>To be honest, if that is too much body roll for you, I doubt there is a set of streetable mods that will make you happy. Compared to stock that is a massive improvement and is better than a lot of the cars on the track.</p><p></p><p>The Panhard bar doesn't really have anything to do with the sways, all it does is keep the rear axle centered. When I first started hitting the track you could see that the leaf springs were flexing and allowing the rear end to move to the inside of the frame on corners. That really isn't a problem until you lose traction in the rear. When the tires break loose the energy in the springs snaps the axle to the other side of the truck and you spin out. The Panhard bar fixes that.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't spend money on a steering stabilizer. Those are to dampen the steering when running bigger tires that have more of a tendency to yank the wheel out of your hands while driving, in other words they are needed on offroad trucks. On the street they don't have much use.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what the spring rate is on the Hotchkis springs, but I know they are a lot softer than the RUSlow springs. I have the old style leafs that are stiffer than the new style by a good margin. You can still pick up the RUSlow parts used from time to time and they are worth the wait. I don't know of any other alternatives.</p><p></p><p>The best thing about the Hotchkis system is that it is supposed to be engineered to work together. The worst thing is that Hotchkis doesn't do a very good job of telling you what you're getting as far as spring rates and other tech info. That makes it difficult to tune the truck if needed and makes it impossible to directly compare their products to others.</p><p></p><p>Stan (RUSlow) did some testing on frame flex and found that the places where the frame flexes are not stiffened by the available braces. I believe that information is in a thread on NLOC, but I'm not sure. It might have been something he told me over dinner sometime.</p><p></p><p>Metcos will not help with body roll at all, they are simply to reduce wheel hop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oilwell1415, post: 9607219, member: 58424"] To be honest, if that is too much body roll for you, I doubt there is a set of streetable mods that will make you happy. Compared to stock that is a massive improvement and is better than a lot of the cars on the track. The Panhard bar doesn't really have anything to do with the sways, all it does is keep the rear axle centered. When I first started hitting the track you could see that the leaf springs were flexing and allowing the rear end to move to the inside of the frame on corners. That really isn't a problem until you lose traction in the rear. When the tires break loose the energy in the springs snaps the axle to the other side of the truck and you spin out. The Panhard bar fixes that. I wouldn't spend money on a steering stabilizer. Those are to dampen the steering when running bigger tires that have more of a tendency to yank the wheel out of your hands while driving, in other words they are needed on offroad trucks. On the street they don't have much use. I don't know what the spring rate is on the Hotchkis springs, but I know they are a lot softer than the RUSlow springs. I have the old style leafs that are stiffer than the new style by a good margin. You can still pick up the RUSlow parts used from time to time and they are worth the wait. I don't know of any other alternatives. The best thing about the Hotchkis system is that it is supposed to be engineered to work together. The worst thing is that Hotchkis doesn't do a very good job of telling you what you're getting as far as spring rates and other tech info. That makes it difficult to tune the truck if needed and makes it impossible to directly compare their products to others. Stan (RUSlow) did some testing on frame flex and found that the places where the frame flexes are not stiffened by the available braces. I believe that information is in a thread on NLOC, but I'm not sure. It might have been something he told me over dinner sometime. Metcos will not help with body roll at all, they are simply to reduce wheel hop. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Lightning Forums
2nd Generation
Suspension guys... are shocks worth it?
Top