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yeah they said they are getting rid of that motor, i hope they put a yota motor in it and not some 350 or something.
extreme 4x4's is ghey...
350's are ghey...toy motors are for real men
personally i like 360's better, but to each his own
Ok, so did anybody watch today? That guy is either a complete mindless fool or feels like he has to say everything they build is great. They put a 6" lift on a new f150 for prerunning and went out and beat on it a little. He kept saying how great the ride was, how it never bottomed out and felt like he was riding in a hovercraft...BS! Anybody watching that show or them driving it could see that the front had too light of compression valving and too much rebound. There was no progression to the front suspension, it would instantly dive down and bottom out hard, even though he kept saying it wasn't bottoming. The rear was too stiff and had too much rebound also, cause when the front end was diving around the rear was pogoing all over the place. I just wish they could actually be objective instead of being forced to say how good everything is when it clearly is not, cause that only makes them look worse. They even had the pro comp rep there watching them drive it, and if I were him I would have had to make the call for some more r&d to get it evened out better, but then again I guess that doesn't matter for mall crawlin.
The '91 is actually part of a two truck build show where we are going to put together two matching toyotas, one with a solid axle swap and exo cage, built for trail rides and crawling, and the other with Total Chaos long travel set up and fiberglass bedsides, as well as front end. I think right now they will both keep there Toyota engines unless the V6 is too far gone, then it might get a Vortec, we have one laying around.....
Who would put 10 grand into a new body for a tow rig? I really didn't pay atention after i new how much that damn body cost. the Gorilla is gonne be stupid. Why would they do a coil spring swap on it also? All they have to do is get better springs and be done with it. but nope.
saw that and went WTF ?! whats with the extremely short arms? its gonna blow monkey spunk with them at that steep of an angle. hope you redid that using longer links.. because those thangs were almost straight up n down ! that would ride like hell.. atleast run a long arm kit if yer gonna use crappy dodge geometry.
Wow, a bit harsh but thats fine. Was that truck great yes it was, considering I pre-ran the course we took it on with Robby Gordon's old trophy truck (now the pro comp corr truck) and it did work great!!Was the back end a bouncing, sure it was, but what would you expect from a bolt on suspension system out of a box, would a full on custom link setup with coil overs and bypasses have worked better of course it would. The '91 is actually part of a two truck build show where we are going to put together two matching toyotas, one with a solid axle swap and exo cage, built for trail rides and crawling, and the other with Total Chaos long travel set up and fiberglass bedsides, as well as front end. I think right now they will both keep there Toyota engines unless the V6 is too far gone, then it might get a Vortec, we have one laying around.....
wait until you see the F-Toy build
Yoiu ever drive a solid axle truck from one ocean to another? Plus the leaf springs on the full size GM's play havok with your approach angle, just have a look at Colorado K5, a coil spring swap is becoming a more popular conversion.10K for a new body on the tow rig? Did you see the body we started with? If you could walk out of the truck without opening the door would you not want to get a body job? That body rocks!!!! It sets in the warehouse beside a Hemi Cuda and more people ask about it than the Muscle Car.
Already saw it, nice rear shackle angle! And where were all the Marlin parts?
I was worried about that as well to be honest, but it ended up being very similar geometry to Linker's rig, and as I saw always. Before you stand in a corner and judge something, watch how it works first you may end up being wrong. It really works well!!!! Marlin was not involved in that build for some "reasons" that don't need to be discussed, but we are going to be using his parts on the "twin Toy" build up later this season with the matchin 91's.10K in the big picture really was not that much money for that body considering it looks as good as a 150K Hummer. The real point of this truck is to prove that if you spend your time and money building a rig like this, you get more than if you just go out and buy an H1
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