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Originally Posted by calstyl2
He would of sold a dozen or more of his bumpers it he had given that a go...............but again he lost that chance
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It would have been a lot more than a dozen. I helped design that bumper, and you may notice I'm not running one
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Again, and I have inside details, the investment capital wasn't there to bring it to market. Metal Tech is about to bring the first tube bumper to mass production for the 80, and as both of us know, it will sell.
I support FOR because I am in heavy favor of non-traditional designs. I don't like everything being framed around OME, I don't think every 80 is a classic "add a ton of weight" expedition design, and I'd like to see a market designed specifically for rock crawlers.
FOR is tuned in that direction, and I think this could be built upon. Just imagine the 4.5" lift designed for 37's with a progressive rate coil that delivers outstanding road performance paired with 12" travel high end Fox or Bilstein 7100's, all centered around a suspension design premised on weight reduction (or at least mitigation) rather than huge increases. I think that would sell like crazy, but it's nowhere in sight as an off the shelf kit. Twenty or thirty of us just doesn't justify the R&D. Hell, I just need the coils and I could build the rest myself.
I'm not sure the 80 yet supports that market and I'm not sure it ever will - the money is more in "outfitting" than in a mass market suspension design. And so we wait...