CitrusBronco build review from Windrock park

[CitrusBronco]

This is a review on how my build performed at Windrock.

Headed to Windrock with our local host @Valhalla who guided us on Saturday.
Saturday was a great introduction with every level of trail; green, blue and black diamond according to the Windrock park map. Valhalla was a good match for my driving style, fast-paced dashes, water holes, mud and rocky trails with some exploring of seldom taken county roads. The rain even showed up when we were winching up an already slick hill. Meetup was at 8:15 am and rolled back into the parking lot at 7pm. It was a great day.

Left to our own on Sunday we ran across @twendel44 when we were airing down so we teamed up for the day. Two rigs are better than one. Sunday another great day although slower pace. Trails at 10am and wrapped up at 5pm. We started on trial 2, turned on g1/p1 east and joined g50 and took the first right on 89 and left onto 51 out to panther rock. Mostly a blue trail day.

My Bronco is an Everglades with hoss3.0 Fox, a Zone 2.5 lift, 37” Kelly MT. Max clearance kit and 1.5” wheel spaces up front.
The Zone 2.5 adventure lift for hoss3.0 worked great, with the max clearance kit and 1.2” wheel spacer on the front I had no rubbing and a great ride on and off highway.
The Fox 3.0 preformed excellent with the lift, they absorbed everything the trails had to offer, smoothed out the bumps and controlled over the big stuff. I have run them hard and faster before the Zone lift, this confirmed the Zone lift did not diminish their offroad performance in my opinion. They made the trails very comfortable in every condition.

The Kelly Safari MT in 37/12.5/17. The trip required 1200 miles interstate driving, I ran 40 psi (warm temp) they drive great, in no way did they diminish the Broncos highway handling up to or above my cruising speed of 70 mph, this was getting me 17 mpg any faster it started dropping. (premium octane fuel) How loud are they? Very quiet for an aggressive mud tire. They were no louder than the Territory MT at 24k in my opinion, I could not hear the tires over the wind noise. After 15k or 20k maybe different but as of now they are quite in my opinion. On the trail tire psi was set to 23 & 18. We had dry dusty roads, gravel, water holes, muddy hill climbs, wet and dry rocks, ledges, you name it. The traction was flawless; tires appear to have no damage to the trends. I was apprehensive going in with no reviews on these tires, I would buy them again without question.

I am very pleased with my selection of mods and the results, my Bronco as it stands now is such an incredible machine. The unmodified i4 2.3 has a monster load of power in such a tiny package. Until I had a chance to experience it in the hills of TN and making some climbs, I underappreciated its ability.

What’s next in mods for me, I am not sure, it is performing pretty amazing as is.

Special thanks to Valhalla and his man J, some good country boys that I hope to have the pleasure to ride with again.

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[CitrusBronco]

A couple short video clips,, or not they don’t seem to work.

 

[contented]

Nice. Glad you had a good time..

 

[ReactiveD]

We are in Citrus County as well. We have been on the lookout for fellow Bronco owners. When is the next meetup?

 

[contented]

I just posted this pic in another thread. It’s from Citrus WMA. I’m in for a meetup. And I know another Bronco owner who would be too.

 

[CitrusBronco]

We are in Citrus County as well. We have been on the lookout for fellow Bronco owners. When is the next meetup?

A meet sounds good, I’ll add you to a group discussion a few of us have and we will see what we can do.

 

[MadMan4BamaNATL]

@CitrusBronco that looked like a real good time! That pic of the big rut with the narrow bypass would have had me stuck thinking for a bit.

That's good wheelin!

 

[vrtical]

Good stuff wish I could get out more, but we have Super Cel coming up so that should help. Getting out to Panther Rock is always fun.

 

[CitrusBronco]

@CitrusBronco that looked like a real good time! That pic of the big rut with the narrow bypass would have had me stuck thinking for a bit.

That's good wheelin!

That narrow bypass started wide and went down to what seemed just under the track width of the Bronco at the bottom, with a tree on one side and a drop off into the rut on the other. The rut had less likelihood of failure so we took the rut.
Pics as usual don’t present the scale or steepness of the obstacles.

 

[MadMan4BamaNATL]

That narrow bypass started wide and went down to what seemed just under the track width of the Bronco at the bottom, with a tree on one side and a drop off into the rut on the other. The rut had less likelihood of failure so we took the rut.
Pics as usual don’t present the scale or steepness of the obstacles.

Ohh it looks plenty steep.

At one point, guess in the bottom, looks very off camber. Last fall a buddy and I had to take on a similar obstacle over in Alabama in Talladega national forest, called Lower Skyway Motorway. Rains had dug a good v notch rut with high walls just like that.

Not sure how we didn't rub the doors, but my frame mounted rock rails helped a bit.

Plenty fun! Gotta head up that way this summer to hit Windrock.

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