swynx
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not necessarily ifs as in ttb, but true ifs. the entire industry is going to ifs. alot of the winning rigs at koh are ifs vehicles.
ive been toying around with a few different oddball front suspension setups (ttb 44/50 ring gear/ 35 spline rcv/ 60 hubs) to name one, so i thought this might be a good discussion.
what mainly brings this up, is wheeling with toyota guys. we have quite a few locals that are pretty hard into there ifs setups. not long travel, but arb lockers, 37's, thrash them pretty good. occasionally break something. but they still snow wheel all season. drive to moab in the thing, wheel stuff like pritchet, and drive the thing back. when pictures get posted all the ifs hater solid axle guys come out of the wood works, and say stuff like " you have no flex" or if the picture is from the right angle, theyll say "an ifs rig couldnt do that" when in fact it was an ifs rig.
so i started browsing around, i find that rcv offers a setup for the tacoma that will hold 40's, obviously that tiny 7.5 diff or whatever they have would blow up first. but then you look at an f150 raptor rcv setup, and its good for 47" tires, obviously the 8.8 diff would blow up first.
the trend is pretty interesting to me, seeing as how not to long ago flex was everything. now its just lockers with as big a tire as you can chop to fit.
ive been toying around with a few different oddball front suspension setups (ttb 44/50 ring gear/ 35 spline rcv/ 60 hubs) to name one, so i thought this might be a good discussion.
what mainly brings this up, is wheeling with toyota guys. we have quite a few locals that are pretty hard into there ifs setups. not long travel, but arb lockers, 37's, thrash them pretty good. occasionally break something. but they still snow wheel all season. drive to moab in the thing, wheel stuff like pritchet, and drive the thing back. when pictures get posted all the ifs hater solid axle guys come out of the wood works, and say stuff like " you have no flex" or if the picture is from the right angle, theyll say "an ifs rig couldnt do that" when in fact it was an ifs rig.
so i started browsing around, i find that rcv offers a setup for the tacoma that will hold 40's, obviously that tiny 7.5 diff or whatever they have would blow up first. but then you look at an f150 raptor rcv setup, and its good for 47" tires, obviously the 8.8 diff would blow up first.
the trend is pretty interesting to me, seeing as how not to long ago flex was everything. now its just lockers with as big a tire as you can chop to fit.