customcruiser

i have my rear 3-link almost finished and am gonna buy my coilovers on Wed. as soon as my $$ hits the bank.

anybody got any reasons i shouldnt buy a certain coilover: FOX, KING, Bilstein or SAW??

i am going with Dual Rate 2.5" tube with atleast 16" of travel

i am putting this on a 94 4Runner that i am chopping off the back does anybody have an idea what two spring rates i should start with?? i dont have anyway to measure the weight per corner

thanks

Flygtenstein

I have Sway-Away, supposed to have a little better coating then the rest. I have Fox shocks, non-coilover, up front. King and more spendy, Bilstein are just not as common.

Rate and valving depend on a lot of things. Angularity for one, weight for two.

The 2.5" coilovers are more expensive, use more expensive components like springs, and are overkill for just about anything sub 6k pounds with less than 60's and 40's. Also, usually overkill for rock crawling. I use 2" reservoirs on a full bodied truck with custom housings and 37's.

Plan on a tender if you are using 16's. That is a real bugger.

Plan on having spring choice limited and biased towards heavy. That is a serious coilover.

customcruiser

what do you mean by "tender"

i am gonna "copy" ORS..... cutting the frame and tubing it.... angle will be as close to 90 degrees as possible.

thanks for your input on 2.5 vs 2.0..... that will save me alot of $$

as for your spring rates what did you chose?? i know, atleast i think your truck hasnt made it on the road yet

its looking like my $$ will not be in until monday now...... why do they put such a long hold on BIG checks??

thanks

Flygtenstein

I am nervous that you don't know about tenders if you are throwing coils on a truck. A tender coil is a short coil with effectively no spring rate that keeps the other longer coils from banging around and damaging the threads on the body of the coilover.

My coils are a 200 lb 9" coil over a 250 lb 16" coil. These are on a 12" travel coilover. Usually people use a bottom spring that is more than the length of travel of the coilover and a top spring that makes up the rest.

Again, mine are pretty near vertical mounted outboard of the frame on a wide axle. The other guy here who has posted pics of his links has something in the 600 range because he is extremely angled.

dfoxengr

i call those helper springs but whatever, lol...