Offroad Racing a VX? Some part suggestions...

[RamAirZ]

rear lift $400? what all is included in that price?

[REDLYNER]

rear lift $400? what all is included in that price?

It was the OME lift on Rocky Road's website. What am I missing? How much should it cost? I'm still researching....

[Ascinder]

I talked to the guy that is selling one by me and he said the check engine light is on due to something wrong with over filling the gas tank? Dealership quoted him $300 to fix. Anyone every heard of that?

Sounds like the charcoal canister in the evap system got saturated from the overfill and it's throwing a code. I think it mentions this somewhere in the workshop manual. Probably just replace the canister, or if you're offroading it only, then don't worry about it. BTW like your racelines, are the rims pretty light? I am on the fence between those and some heavier Hutchinson double locks.

[Ascinder]

Quote:Originally Posted by RamAirZ
rear lift $400? what all is included in that price?

It was the OME lift on Rocky Road's website. What am I missing? How much should it cost? I'm still researching....

HERE you go. The cheapest lift you can do is $60 and it's damn near impossible to break and adjustable to boot. You will need some coil spring compressors for the spring bucket route. I used harbor freight cheapies. I recommend lubing the threads of the spring jacks or they'll be non-adjustable in no time. They work great though. I was running 4-1/2" of lift and that was only because I ran out of adjustment on the torsion bars up front. You may want to look into differential drop brackets too to lessen the wear on your CV's from lifting too. The search function here is your friend.

[REDLYNER]

BTW like your racelines, are the rims pretty light? I am on the fence between those and some heavier Hutchinson double locks.

I absolutely love the Racelines. Super light for a beadlock, but solid as a rock on the trail. I run 6 psi on the rocks and 20 psi on the street- no burping air that low and no vibrations at 20 psi.


It looks like if I went with the OME 912s and a torsion lift, I could squeeze in some heavy duty tie rods.

[SlowPro48]

[*]Emulsion Shocks: $450.00

It's none of my business really, but I'm gonna run my mouth anyway. Hey - you asked!

For your intended application why in the world would you want to downgrade from the stock reservoir shocks to emulsion shocks? Or has someone already done away with the OEM Kayabas on "the rig in question"? For intense use such as racing I would think you'd be better off with reservoir shocks, not emulsion shocks. Emulsion would be OK for street or plodding along (rock crawling, etc.) but offroad racing's different. The suspension will be swinging from topped out to bottomed out continuously - every second for the entire race - lots of heat to dissipate! I'm betting emulsions would suffer major fade w/in 15 minutes.

If you wanted an upgrade from the stock piggybacks you could go to a remote reservoir but a lot of them have externally adjustable damping which would not be within the rules. The stock KYBs you have to take apart and play with the shim stack to adjust damping so they meet the rules.

"You gotta keep em separated."
The Offspring

[Ascinder]

Originally Posted by REDLYNER [*]Emulsion Shocks: $450.00

It's none of my business really, but I'm gonna run my mouth anyway. Hey - you asked!

For your intended application why in the world would you want to downgrade from the stock reservoir shocks to emulsion shocks? Or has someone already done away with the OEM Kayabas on "the rig in question"? For intense use such as racing I would think you'd be better off with reservoir shocks, not emulsion shocks. Emulsion would be OK for street or plodding along (rock crawling, etc.) but offroad racing's different. The suspension will be swinging from topped out to bottomed out continuously - every second for the entire race - lots of heat to dissipate! I'm betting emulsions would suffer major fade w/in 15 minutes.

If you wanted an upgrade from the stock piggybacks you could go to a remote reservoir but a lot of them have externally adjustable damping which would not be within the rules. The stock KYBs you have to take apart and play with the shim stack to adjust damping so they meet the rules.

X2 to that. For some quality cheap reservoir shocks you might try FOA shocks too. Their shocks are built to race and priced very reasonably. The only thing to worry about is that you'd have to convert the front mounts on the VX from a post mount to an eye mount, which is extremely easy.

2.0" Remote reservoir shock
2.5" Remote reservoir shock

[REDLYNER]

Annnnnnnd oops. The whole time I was meaning res shocks, but kept saying emulsion. I was looking at Walker Evans racing shocks (emulsion) earlier, but the Fox 2.0's w/res is what I had in mind.

For price reasons, I was looking at the 2.0's vs the 2.5's.






You never see VX's, but tonight, ironically enough I was waiting in the parking lot for my wife while she was grocery shopping and a VX parked right in front of me.