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looks like you get a sticker too! https://forum.ih8mud.com/goto/post?id=14411373
100 Series long travel kit
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I’ll run them proudly on my Delta VS front suspension kit when it’s available!
Bretts seem to be jerks on this forum.
Bretts seem to be jerks on this forum.
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It’s been done.
A company called Killer Off Road produced these LCA’s about 4 years ago. Not a long travel kit, but gets rid of the notorious torsion bars. I’m pretty sure they only made 10-12 pairs and stopped because there just wasn’t enough demand. The arms look very similar to Total Chaos’s. I’m sure that was their inspiration.
Better than it did with the torsion bars. However, you lose the front sway bar as the bump stops take up the space where it attached. Slightly more droop but being as the shock is your limiter it’s negligible.
I have to ask…
Is it possible that the King shocks are more responsible for the improvement in ride, than changing the style of spring from a straight torsion bar to a coil?
Is it possible that any improvement in articulation has more to do with the loss of a(n) (anti)swaybar, than the format of the spring?
Agreed, but what from what I remember of the now deleted KOR coil over kit thread:
Travel - Not much over what I’m seeing with extended shocks and torsion bars.
Ride height - recommended less than typical lift.
Additional clearance - none.
Additional shock options - maybe.
Well, that, and the price. I’d love to have played with the KOR kit, and I’m not afraid to spend a little money on suspension, but for me, it has to be more than just changing the format of the spring. To me, the KOR kit seemed rather expensive, for what seemed to be an incremental increase in performance.
(Yes, I do realize that a coil over does open up spring rate options that are unavailable in the limited torsion bar options available)
While the coil over conversion was pricey, I think it’s worth the benefits. I debated the SAS swap, but because of the limited up travel because of the 100 series frame design I decided that this was the best compromise. If you want a straight axle up front buy an 80 and put an LS in it.
Although it seems that KOR is “gone”, probably making this question irrelevant, unless Delta VS does something similar, not having driven a KOR kitted 100 series, what exactly are those benefits?
Are those benefits from the shape of the spring, or the King shocks, hydraulic bump stops, and loss of a swaybar?
I had a 94 80 series 1994-2004. I’ve owned a Corvette with a LS. I’m not sure that I’d really want to combine the two. While the 80 series is a monster off-road, the 100 series was a huge improvement on-road.
IIRC it was effectively no increase in travel. Sucks that thread got deleted, I wonder why.
I'm a glutton for dumb purchases, so I'd def think hard about getting a LT kit if one was available. Preferably one where I could choose my own shocks, as I'd rather have Kings or Radflos.
But I doubt I'd spent 3-4k (I think that was the cost of the KOR kit - and that was 2018ish prices) with the only real upside being I can more effectively mate the correct spring rate to the vehicle. Very small returns for the money spent.
Still, would be very cool to see Delta VS do something, I'd love a LT kit option for these trucks.
Edit: Looks like @rb4638 has the KOR kit on his truck - sorry, I missed that first time reading the thread.
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