Making The Smoothest Riding Street VX - Tire & Shock Advice...

[rowhard]

The Rancho 9000's will soften the ride over the OEM's, but being a short wheelbase, it will still and always be an uncomfortable ride compared to a long wheel base vehicle. I found with 9000's, when run soft, had a lot of nose dive under braking.

[etlsport]

i drove a vx with gabriel shocks and it rode really smooth.. also as pbkid mentioned there was lots of body roll so it didnt handle sharp turns nearly as well as my stock shocked VX... dont know what model they were.. just that they were gabriel shocks

here is the only listing for them ive found on this site.. so might be these

Trooper listing
Ultra Premium SUV
P/N
Frnt G63707
Rear G63708

[nfpgasmask]

Mmmm, if you go with smaller rims, I would get a nice set of 16" American Racing Teflon Mojaves. I keep waiting to see a Proton with those rims. Maybe someday I will have to buy a Proton and do it myself.

Bart

[TheGanzman]

Mmmm, if you go with smaller rims, I would get a nice set of 16" American Racing Teflon Mojaves. I keep waiting to see a Proton with those rims. Maybe someday I will have to buy a Proton and do it myself.

Bart

Actually, I'd go with some American Racing Torq Thrust D's in 16" (Old School, doncha know...) - I'd just have to figger out how to go from 6 lugs down to 5 (custom spacers) and work out all the offset math...

[rowhard]

Actually, I'd go with some American Racing Torq Thrust D's in 16" (Old School, doncha know...) - I'd just have to figger out how to go from 6 lugs down to 5 (custom spacers) and work out all the offset math...

You might have even more of a problem with the center bore, you need at least 100mm, almost 4 inches

[PHO2GR4]

AR Teflon Mojave OR Teflon Chambers. They'd look great with a Proton paint job.

And you can use them to cook eggs in Moab!

Oh, and the Rancho shocks give a much smoother ride, with less-tight handling. There will always be a comfort vs. performance trade-off.

[TheGanzman]

AR Teflon Mojave OR Teflon Chambers. They'd look great with a Proton paint job.

And you can use them to cook eggs in Moab!

Oh, and the Rancho shocks give a much smoother ride, with less-tight handling. There will always be a comfort vs. performance trade-off.

Thanks for the response! Assuming you have the Ranchos, what have you found setting-wise is the best all around compromise in terms of handling/comfort?