I'm sorry you had so much frustration with our instructions or lack thereof. Thanks @rtaylor for the assist. I believe this may have been a packaging mistake of not including the separate instructions that are specific to the sway bar relocation kit, which was a late addition to all of our coilover kits for Stages 3 through 8. I'll ask our packaging guys to take a look at it and try to remedy that for future customers.
Hello there. I would suggest taking a look at our spacer lift kit HERE. If your primary need is only for fitting larger tires, I think that would be a better fit for you, not to mention much lower cost, than the complete coilover kits being discussed here. An upgrade over the spacer kit with better shock performance would be our EXP coilover shocks in THIS THREAD. In either case I would suggest adding a pair of our tubular Upper Control Arms to help maintain proper front end geometry after the suspension lift.
No, unfortunately I have nothing new to report on that.
To be honest, any of our stages 3 and up would be an improvement over most types of terrain. The travel, shock design and valving is the same on all of them though, so the reasons for stepping up at each stage will depend on your wants more so than needs. For example, if you want to be able to sustain shock performance over rough terrain at moderate speed for longer periods, any of the stages with remote reservois (stages 4 and up) will be important. If you want the ability to adjust the shock damping for whatever terrain you'll be running, our CDCV adjustable shocks come in at stage 6. If you want the computer to do that for you, adjusting to changes in terrain and speed on the fly, the CDEV system that comes in Stage 8 might be right for you.
What was the RTI score? Curious to see how it competes to stock numbers.Here are a couple shots from the RTI ramp at Bronco Super Cel this year. The ICON 4-door is running our Stage 8 kit with 37's and the up-travel limiters.
Great, thanks for the info Dusty. I had the same mindset as you and I'm glad you solidified it. Really wanted the remote reservoirs but I doubt I'll ever need to adjust the shocks as I'm manly just getting out their to overnland basically anywhere.
I just did some quick math and the price difference between the CDEV system and the standard remote res coilovers comes to $1,994.95 ($1,480 price difference for the 4 shocks plus $525 for the IIC module). That's a lot of cabbage but for some reason in my mind I thought it would be more than that. Perhaps because I always think of the CDEV system in conjunction with Stage 8 which tops out at over $10K. But Stage 8 comes with a lot of other stuff you may or may not need depending on your goals.
I don't remember the actual numbers but I know we beat the stock Sasquatch-equipped rigs and a King-equipped 4-door handily. This was at Bronco Super Cel in Colorado last year. Of course all the Early Broncos wiped the floor with all of the 6G's on the ramp LOL. If I can find a pic of how the stock ones were doing on the same ramp I'll throw it in here.
