I made some adjustments
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79 K5 Prerunner "Lucy"
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Cuz she’s too fast!
Hahahaha!! One day though...
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Nice . Looks like you need to play with the rear rebound. I think The "Anti Prius might be able to do that jump. If the big one is that one in the background No way my frame would survive . Again Nice . We need to hook up I need to test my sniper setup
I think you could do it no prob, it’s really smooth landing.
I agree the rear packs up a lot.. I’m gonna see what I can do to get some shims on their way.. I need to remove some from the front also..
Shoot In oct our s10 brothers are doing a meet I think either in Barstow or ocotillo. I’ll find out. Maybe you can cruise out to that.
Awesome Steve! Good to see it back out. 
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Cool, Not that it matters, I prefer Ocotillo, Barstow kinda sucks . Its the land of Rocks ans Ruts.
Thanks!! One of these days I’ll get the jetting straight.. went to lean on the secondary side now.. gotta go back the other wayAwesome Steve! Good to see it back out.
I agree... hopefully they change the venue.. maybe JV again.. but closer to the sandy areas..
Barstow main is where all the cool guys go though.
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It may be, but not having a true whoop based go fast suspension it sucks.
Completely agree, I won't even bother going unless it's to test the 10 car.
This x10...
Saw a video on insta of Lucy getting some serious air time. How has it been running?
Actually having some issues with spark breaking up on the top end. I went through the plugs wires and distributor but I haven’t driven it since I did that. Hope it’s resolved.
I also have jumped into modding my rear springs.. because I don’t have the time or money to link it now I am doing the best I can to add more wheel travel.
So me and a buddy started this yesterday,
I added 5 inches of arch to my deaver springs, I only need this to work for a trip or two, I have a big trip in October and I won’t care if the arch stays or not but it’s not working now so I had to do something about adding whatever I could.
Man this was a pita, you can’t just add the arch through the whole spring like I thought. There was about 3 hours of trial and error before I realized that I couldn’t have 17 inches of arch because it messed up my pinion angles and added tons of plunge, then I put the front half back the way it was from deaver and added arch behind the center pin, I had a jeepspeed spring here for reference and went off that. Mine has a lot more arch in the back now, it measured out to around 15 total and it was 10ish before. It still bolts in with my 7 inch shackle and is 56 inches wide free and the same 64-5/8 inches flat. So now I know I can keep my driveline, I don’t have tons of plunge and it’s just enough to allow the cantilever to get used and tested. I’ll also prob add a spring or two from that Jeep speed pack to hold it up higher at ride height.
I am raising it up 3 inches total for more uptravel and hopefully this and some bypass adjustments or revavle it’ll be able to roost at least reasonable whoops. The rebound is too slow to do that consistently without bucking now..
Are you manually bending the springs or what are you doing to "add the arch"?
Wheres the airtime video?
Wheres the airtime video?
We’re using my press to cold arch them, I am doing this in 3 inch increments 2/8ths at a time, 3/8ths deforms them. I’m am well aware they will not last like this but that’s ok. It was less of a concern vs redoing everything so I could go spring over.. I want to test this cantilever..
The video is here
