NYCO's '06 Boosted Blue Betty

No doubt if you got a killer deal it was worth it either way. I swear my King's had 5 winters of salt and 0 rust what a disappointment in these shocks..

 

kings would have been nice...

curious to see how these ride compared to OME

 

I know that n0rth loves how much better his ORI's ride than his OME's, but I have yet to really see a comparison of ORI's to good C/O's like Kings and Icons.

 

Those ORIs sound like a pain in the ass to dial in completely!

 

Bobs truck wears condoms? huh?

 

if the truck makes it back to the dirty east coast i may have to

 

I haven't had a chance to play with mine yet. My resi's and fill kit are in the mail now I hope so maybe next week. The nice thing is I don't have to mess with a spring compressor and completely tear the shock apart to tune them. I just put some nitrogen in or take some out. I'd guess what makes them hard is the fact that you have basically an infinite range to tune across while shocks have only a few different thicknesses of shims to choose from.

 

I never thought to ask about that. They worked well the second time I got them back, so never thought anything else about it. Sorry!

 

ah bummer man, but no worries! I'm gonna revalve my fronts too cuz I switched to 700 pounders... my rebound needs some work for sure after going from 600's to 700's. Nothing crazy just minor adjustments.

 

you going to do it yourself?

 

Does not want to let the truck catch any east coast disease.

 

nope...can't let that happen

 

when i had mine rebuilt in dec 2010, i got teh IVD coating. after 3 years and pretty much only one snow storm here in virginia and driving in salt one day, there are rust spots on a few spots and they arent small

 

well shit

 

it looked good until about a year ago

 

I think I will Bob if I can get some good advice on what valving to run. It's enough of a pain to get the coils off to do the revalve that I want/need to get it right the first time... Currently my valving is: (i'm pretty sure) That is stock king valving mind you not icon... (also I re-valved my rears last weekend so I know I can do it )

Compression
.012x1.75
.012x1.60
.010x1.0
.020x1.45
.020x1.30
.020x1.15
.020x1.0

Rebound
.015x1.75
.015x1.60
.015x1.45
.012x1.30
.012x1.15
.012x1.0

 

Not hard to spray some clear coat on them... Mine are spray painted black where ever there's exposed metal. But I will say that my drivers side rear shock appears to be shot after +/- 50k miles. When I installed my b110s the old fox remote resi shock has no rebound to it. It just stays where you compress it.

 

Yea Im impressed with the rear Icon resi shocks they still look spankin new. So I'm goona order me up a set here maybe this w/e for the fronts. I can say I will be going with a heavier lb spring this time.

 

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