Neither of those Expo's are stock designed suspension either though. Our own Dan Turner has a linked rear end, same as the black and copper ones. The fronts are almost always beams, cheap to build and get massive travel from. The white one is a mezzanine arm setup, which is a completely badass setup just not done much.
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Swamprat
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toyota FTW! haha maybe one day my 4runnner would be built enough to survive in the desert
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when it comes to hauling the mail in the desert our toyota race truck is hands down over my xj, but my xj is a dd that i can(do) jump and that's pretty damn fun too.
shortbussrydah
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that mezzanine arm setup is wicked. i cant wrap my mind around how it works, it looks like a damn transformer.
It mounts the c/o behind the housing. You can also engineer some rising ratios into the shock travel. In other words, you can have less shock travel (less damping, lighter spring rate) when the wheels are drooped, and have more damping and more spring as the system compresses. It is basically just a shock mounted to an arm, but it is all behind the housing instead of in front. It also lets them tuck the shock package back into the rear corner so you don't lose interior space.
The other thing that is does is load the chassis differently when the rear suspension is compressing. You build it right and you can actually have it pulling weight off the front end as the rear compresses... think about how that affects handling through the rough.
Go search "mezzanine" over at RDC and you will see some really trick stuff. Even one where they run the shocks down parallel to the frame so they can keep everything out of the bed of the truck.
TJDualsport
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those exploders can move pretty well out there. heres my friends old one he just sold.
Swamprat
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i seriously im considering staying in cali when i go there next summer
Ryan93
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I really really really want an I-Beamed something! they are so bad ass
61scout80
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how fast do you think that white expo is going in that video? think looks smoother on dirt than a caddy on the road. crazy!
that's kinda what i did when we drove out from Pa, only i don't like a lot of the california politics so i backed up one state.
Pa has a strict vehicle code. when i came out here and seen what was street legal i felt as if the heavens opened and the light of god shone directly on my sole. seriously. i giggled for the first few months and called my automotive loving friends back home daily to tell them what i seen going down the road.
that's kinda what i did when we drove out from Pa, only i don't like a lot of the california politics so i backed up one state.
Pa has a strict vehicle code. when i came out here and seen what was street legal i felt as if the heavens opened and the light of god shone directly on my sole. seriously. i giggled for the first few months and called my automotive loving friends back home daily to tell them what i seen going down the road.
Swamprat
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well when im out there on my vacation im scouting colleges and cheap living, possible jobs all that good stuff.
