Long travel long bed

Hey all, I’ve learned a lot through Tacoma world so I decided to create an account to try and find some people in a similar situation to me. I have a 21 long bed Tacoma (4x4) and looking into long travel. Curious if any others have built a long travel truck with the long bed and how it has done. Trying to decide if it’s worth building or if it would be better to turn around and get a short bed. I appreciate the feedback, thanks

 

call dirt king ……

 

Beautiful truck man. How do you like it? Dirt king kit is the plan. Sorry I’m still trying to figure out how to reply to your post so your tagged

 

Do you mean ACLB or DCLB? Short or long wheel base? I would think the wheel base would be more important than the bed length, but maybe only marginally so.

 

I agree it is the wheelbase that matters. Its a dual cab so wheelbase is pretty long at about 140”

 

I would think that longer wheel base may help in high speed stability.

 

Not that this is 100% applicable, but a tiny bit of research suggests the ultimate high speed desert racing trucks (trophy trucks) have a relatively short wheel base of about 120”-125”. That aligns with the short wheel bases of king of the mountains vehicles, dirt bikes, and SXS’s. Long wheel base is relegated to high speed hill climbers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=typ...base&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

Despite that, I don’t think there are any suspension part incompatibilities with a DCLB.

Disclaimer: I do not want you to think that your Tacoma has any chance whatsoever of being anything approximating a trophy truck.

 

If you are always going in a straight line perhaps.

 

I’ve seen the ideal length to be about 120” and don’t expect my truck to be a trophy truck by any means (although that would be rad) but just trying to justify those 20 extra inches. I appreciate all the responses guys and idk if I quoted this message currently. New to this

 

Also looking for some personal preference if anyone out here has a DCLB long travel build

 

Yes please this stock heffer would love the same build. How much we talking actually $$

 

20-30k