Austin's Supercharged Mid Travel Build

Oh gotcha, I thought you meant you actually had the mounts from MCM at one point. Are you running wheel spacers by chance?

 

I am, I need to with stock wheels and 35’s haha so I do get that it is dependent on wheel and tire setup too.

 

Approximately how many miles were you able to get out of the lower shock heims> Any deformation or wear issues with the misalignment spacers?

 

I got about 20k miles out of my heims but I probably should've replaced them sooner than that, they had a lot of play in them. The misalignment spacers still fit snug. I do have fairly new lower shock bolts so that probably helped keep the misalignments in good condition.

 

Interesting. @turbodb has reported unusual wear on his misalignment spacers but there was quite a bit of runout on the shock bolts. I think he said the heims that came with his ADSs lasted about 20K as well.

Are you running 650 lbs coils too?

 

I actually thought my misalignments were wearing at first because they had some play between them and the heims, but it was the inner race of the heims that actually wore down, not the misalignments. Once I put my misalignments in the new heims, they fit nice and snug.

Running 650 lbs coils.

 

I am thinking my next COs will be ADSs. Are you happy with the default valving? Or will you be changing that up when you rebuild them?

 

you'll need to change it. You're too heavy.

 

This might be true but I am more interested in what his experience has been. Plus, his setup is with the compression clickers so he can adjust where others like you and Dan cannot.

 

I’ve been very happy with them. My truck weighs 4200 lbs and the valving is really close out of the box. However, I do get a much nicer ride when I have more weight on the truck, but I think it’s because I’m either a little over spring with 650 springs or because I’m running about 2.5 - 3” of lift. The on road performance isn’t plush by any means, but certainly better than my 5100’s were. I really like the fact that you can ditch the sway bar and still be able to take corners at normal speeds. I haven’t ran a sway bar since getting them and I don’t see any need to put it back on. In fact, most of the time I drive quite a bit over the speed limit and I never feel like the truck has too much body roll or is too uncontrolled without the sway bar. The off-road performance is where they really shine. I had the biggest grin on my face the first time I took them off-road. They glide across washboard and handle mid size hits well. Really my only complaint with them is that they don’t seem to have a top-out pad inside the shock, so when they do top-out it’s very loud. For this reason, and for the insurance of having them, I would highly recommend getting some limit straps.

 

Thanks.

Do you use your compression clickers to make adjustments or fine tune things?

 

I typically don’t adjust them for different terrain. My rear shock valving was a little off out of the box so it was nice to have the clickers to dial it in a little better than if I I didn’t have the clickers. I use the clickers mostly for when I have my canopy and rtt which allows me to get the shocks to make the truck handle like it does when it’s unloaded.

 

You’ve got a sweet rig, are those the stock length solo arms? How do you like them, I’ve been looking at those for awhile now.

 

Yes, I have no complaints so far. The main reason I got them was to eliminate tire rub with my 33's which is exactly what they did. If you don't already know, they push the wheels forward an inch. I also really like the LCA bushing design because of how much easier it is to service compared to the stock arm bushings.

 

Nice, I just picked up some SPC uca to replace my total chaos since I’ve burnt through 2 sets of uniballs this last year.

you’ve got an auto with 4.88 right? I’d love to see how she rides, with all my extra weight my stock supercharger doesn’t do a damn thing for me anymore. How’s that stage 2 working out for you.

 

Jeez, idk how you went through uniballs so fast. Most of the time I take my truck offroad is to go as fast as possible and even doing that my uniballs lasted me two years. They weren't even in bad condition when I swapped them, I just figured it was time to do. Seems like going to a SPC uca would kinda be a downgrade from the TC uca. I would imagine if you're going through uniballs quickly, you're going to go through the ball joint on the spc uca even faster.

I'm auto with 4:56 and a 2.2 pulley on the SC. I'm very pleased with the amount of power the truck has.

Not sure what you mean by stage 2...

 

Received my sliders back from the powder coater and got them bolted up. So far I'm loving the hybrid mounts. They no longer rattle like my old bolt on setup. I also pitched these up to 20 degrees of tilt (old ones were 10) which hugs the body tighter and looks a little cleaner IMO.

 

The photos looked like the snow performance stage 2 meth kit.

 

Probably the best "bolt on" slider solution that i've seen that doesn't clamp the frame in some sort of way.
Don't imagine that you'll be doing any rock crawling or really bouncing off of those sliders, but i'd be curious on how those bolts and threads in the plate hold up to some abuse.


Also, i'm curious about the solo stock length lowers. They state that they loose the functionality of the factory steering stops. So what is there to prevent you from oversteering the wheels? Does the rack and pinion have an internal stop?

Looks great man!

 

I know the threads aren't super deep, but the bolts aren't taking any impact and that load is distributed over 16 large bolts, I think that should actually hold up to some serious abuse... As long as the bolts don't back out, that's a solid setup IMO. Curious for sure.