Long Travel BS Thread

Thanks bud i definitely feel honored

it is..just came out. they only do 1 magazine a year for whatever reasons, its a pretty entertaining mag. trucks,boobies and pranks make it pretty hard to go wrong

 

what do you guys think about this? 4inch 500 over 16inch 650 10inch coilover.

DSM steered me away from a 6 inch tender spring.

 

3" stands for the diameter of the coil so 3" would fit a 2.5 shock etc

 

I ran a 18" when I had 8s

 

my 8s had 18s with a flat retainer. when i got the tapered retainer my springs wouldnt fit on without compressing the spring. so 16 with the taperd.

 

yup. 16" came with my shocks originally. when i dropped spring rate i got new lower retainers and 18" springs

old


current

 

x2 I ran a 18" 700lb spring with my 8s.

Now im running the same spring with a 6" 500lb over it on my 12s

 

In ten minuted rob mac leads off the line
https://www.race-dezert.com/home/2012-bitd-vegas-to-reno-live-coverage

 

eric probably had a rod spacer too

 

Newb question, is there a benefit to the 18" coil over the 16"?

 

idk they just didnt fit unless there was preload on them haha

rod spacer?? pics? mine were exactly as pictured^^

 

you have to take into account the block height of the springs and how much travel your shock has. If you're running a 16" 500lb spring and need to crank it a bunch, the spring will bottom out before your shocks. if you run a 18" 500lb spring it will have more travel, so you have more wiggle room with preload

 

rod spacer and longer rod ends are different:

 

i didnt have either of those haha

 

https://www.race-dezert.com/home/201...-live-coverage

is the live coverage not working for anyone else?

 

not for me either

 

ahh okay its probably just not up and running yet. if it starts working for me ill let you guys know.

 

rod spacers are there to push the spring assembly higher up on the shock to clear axles and shit. It's a cheap alternative to getting longer rod ends which push up the entire shock assembly as opposed to just the spring assembly.

Different size rod ends do not effect what length springs you can run. Rod spacers do.

Think of longer rod ends as a spacer lift that goes on the bottom of the shock.