Long Travel BS Thread

Is it even worth getting smoothies for the front or just stick to bypasses? Just curious

 

More shock can help, but in that case not quite as much as a bypass of course. You can do a lot with a smoothie in there doing secondary work. A bypass helps the most because of it's fine tuning, especially when you know what you are doing.

 

edit: nvm

 

could you lead me to a place to start? i need to learn this stuff fast.

 

that definitely goes for smoothies as well,

I thought about using the coilover strictly as a coil carrier and having the smoothie do all the work but thats old tech... why not have two shocks split the work? Do they even split the work 50/50? damn shock theorys..hahaha something to think about on those boring nights

 

Basically tune ability and what was said above fine tuning for the front end but a well valved smoothie would do just as good, just might as well get a bypass though

 

The 4wds used to come with a tortion setup but he converted it to king coilovers as you can see. A lot of guys still run tortion setups with just front bypasses. You can still pull decent travel but I say a coilover will def be a big upgrade.

 

I bought his bedsides a while back

 

http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/coilovers/Part_1/

http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/coilovers/Part_2/

 

Pretty far drive huh?

 

Not bad I was on my way home from Camp Pendleton

 

I defenitly noticed a big diffrence with throwing bypasses on not ride quality but could smash the front end and not even bottom out the bumps if anything I just feel more comfortable not having to check up on g-outs etc.. I would say its well worth getting bypasses for the front

 

more dampening.. I think that's what he was getting at.
If you have the resources, why not both?

 

i think its magic

 

I politely disagree. The additional dampening over large hits alone is worth the secondary not to mention the ability to tune your front end to the terrain/conditions on the fly with a bypass.

even a smooth body up front will ride better than just a coilover. Is a bypass a better option, of course but almost always the rule of 2>1 applies except in extremely rare cases and if your ballin on a budget a smooth body is a viable option. Think of it this way, would you rather run a 2.0 or a 2.5" coilover? Why?

 

a secondary would provide that extra dampening on a big hit all the way through the travel not just the last few inches right?