Idaho BS thread in the PNW

Technical license is pretty easy to get. General is a bit harder though.

Just start reading man. WAY better then CBs. Sounds better, can broadcast MUCH further, use repeaters, Talk to the ISS, all sorts of crazy shit. Pretty cool stuff actually.

 

There's actually a HAM radio club in my town... Interesting....

 

It's pretty cool. You should check it out.

 

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http://www.motherlindas.com/crisco.htm

 

I watched a wedding show the other day and the bride had a bacon bar at her wedding. I might do that

 

what go to a bacon bar?? at one point in time i had like 20LB of bacon but becuse there was no room in the freezer for other foods i ate it.

 

One thing that seems somewhat iffy about that video to me is that it appears as though they can control ride height with those shocks given the jump at the end and over the bumps the car with the Bose system was lifted giving it more up travel and smoothing out the bumps just by the fact that it isn't hitting the bumps like the conventional car likely does. I can hit speed bumps pretty smoothly in my Tacoma with all the up travel I have.

The other catch I see with the whole on the fly tunable shocks is a lack of market possibly. I haven't actually raced in any rigs, but it would seem that conventional shocks do just fine for racers in say KOH and Baja. You just need a light rebound and a compression fine tuned to what you weigh and you are basically good for high speed offroading. Valving doesn't matter in the rocks really. Spring rate is the equivalent of valving in rocks. So you can already kind of double tune KOH rigs for speed and rocks just by getting the valving and spring rates right. Trophy trucks are basically only going to care about valving for the high speed stuff and they typically do just fine with a one size fits all bumps valving once they figure out what that valving is. When it comes to different sized whoops it basically just comes down to having enough travel and finding the right speed to even them out, which is usually just fast. haha

One advantage I guess could be the fact that you could throw them on a new rig and just revalve them on the fly to find that sweet spot much faster. Or for rigs that do hucking events and such. They could stiffen up the valving for hucking and then soften it back down for race events. I do see this being an advantage to guys who DD their rigs. LT typically rides pretty rough on the street due to the more aggressive valving. My ass end rides like a tank and I will be tearing my ORI's apart at some point to jump the compression up in them as well and I imagine they will ride pretty rough on street too. Logan has said his rides pretty rough on the street as well, but you get our rigs offroad and get your speed up and they feel like they just float across the terrain. Well it would be nice to be able to soften it up on the fly for when you get on the street and then bump it back up for offroading, but if they cost a lot more, most won't shell out the money and if sales are low, the tech may never come down in cost because it will just be lost possibly.

It would be cool to have some sort of a way to tie it into the steering of a sports car though so the car will kind of pitch itself into corners against centrifugal force

 

Rancho made this..
http://www.gorancho.com/press_relea...e-for-any-rancho-outfitted-jeep-or-truck.html

 

who wants that? I like to know what im driving over..


would be cool though to have a multi mode controller for street DDing, go fast street, trails, go fast trails, slow crawling with just a turn dial switch.

 

Sounds like you have something to use your enigineering degree on when you finish.....

 

fuck that. I want to control it. No system will adapt fast enough to know "oh..we are crawling over rocks..now doing go fast on a really whoopy trail...no wait..just flat road..or maybe a mild trail..hmm.."

Sure, let it make slight adjustments within preset parameters of my choosing, like..road high speed, town DDing, High speed whoops...ect.

 

God help us all..

 

I kind of assumed these are just shocks, and would still have a spring associated with them since I don't know the specifics and we were talking about just valving. Valving in shocks is somewhat variable when driving anyway. Bigger bumps are going to try to move the shock faster and it will resist even harder. Granted I see your point with being able to independent adjust the valving as well, but I kind of have a hard idea of believing a system that could automatically predict the terrain and adjust for it on the fly could be made and not for cheap enough for the normal user to buy it, nor reliable enough for a race crew to want to run it; and I kind of doubt that a driver in say the Baja 1000 would have time to turn a knob every so often for changing terrain.

One thing I find somewhat interesting here is that like Monte mentioned on the last page about Fox coming out with the dual adjusters on the resis. MT guys eat that shit up and the LT guys just kind of laugh at them for it. You don't see that on any custom type shocks. Only on model specific shocks. There are triple bypasses that allow you to adjust the valving for specific areas of the shock travel, but LT guys get them set and then don't really touch them. This kind of leads me to believe one of two things. Either those adjusters have a very minimal effect on the actual performance of the shock but the consumer will believe it rides different just like people think their rig feels faster from adding a throttle body spacer; or if they do actually do some noticeable good that it is more of luxury item to make the ride a bit smoother when switching between offroading and pavement, so more for comfort rather than actual performance.

 

This is exactly what I want to do with my ORI's. haha I want to 4 link the rear and run ORI's back there and then an onboard nitrogen bottle and have a switch with a few presets to adjust them on the fly for different driving styles.

 

the dual rate foxes i believe work in a way that if the shock articulates very quickly, it ends up using the "high speed" compression setup, if it goes slower it uses the low speed. Im not totally sure how they work but for a bolt in CO or rear shock its great for guy that DD their rig and like to go semi fast on whoops and such.

You just said yourself that your low LT rides stiff as hell on the road...

these...won't have that issue...in theory..No idea how well they will work either.

 

so not worth it. You'd go through so much nitrogen. Be so expensive.

 

a bunch of complication if you ask me..

 

So it kind of sounds like it might be similar to a double bypass maybe?

My 8" ORI's use hardly any nitrogen. I've filled them up from 0 to 800 psi probably 15 times each now and the pressure in my bottle has just barely moved off of 2000psi. The longer ones will take more I'm sure, although with a linked setup I shouldn't need as much pressure in them as IFS needs so it may use even less nitrogen. And if I am adjusting it on the fly it won't be going from 0 each time. Probably from like 600 or so.

 

Sure a computer can think faster then me blah blah blah. But the more things you throw at it the more delay time you add. Simple computer stuff and how they work. Only one thing at a time. While yes we are talking mirco and mili seconds..that shit matters for stuff like this obviously.

BUT

I am saying if you could tell the computer what more to expect it would make it faster and take a lot of load off the computer. If you made it so depending on where your switch or whatever was at, it would know to expect certain things therefore react even faster.

No way in hell am i gonna keep my hand on a switch and change it every 5 seconds..don't be an idiot ben haha However, i sure as hell will change it from when i get off the trail and on the interstate..or back home to slower DD speeds.

Its like traction control on a fast car basically what your talking about. Which is nothing new. But you adding in offroading scenrios which alone has SO many more variables then street stuff..

 

Yes, but roads are pretty smooth typically. What about when the whole truck is constantly being jarred all over and vibrating like crazy from being fully caged front to rear. You could attempt to add in filters and such to try to noise cancel the vibrations, but I still don't think you would have a system good enough to add much if any advantage to the offroad race world. Maybe there is some application to the pavement scene, but costs must come down first.