Hey all, I am relatively new here, and I have done more lurking than posting. I have really appreciated everything that everyone has contributed and the knowledge everyone has shared has helped me make the decisions on the few mods I have done to my truck.
When I was searching for a suspension, I was reading everyone's reviews and I was looking at the Kings which came very highly recommended, and the Fox Suspension as well, which also came highly recommended. I also had a chance to try out the ICON Stage 4 on a friend's truck and having had an Icon setup on my last truck, I knew they were excellent as well. So I was facing a tough choice. I reached out to a few people to get some advice and to see if there were any options I missed. Someone recommended ADS Racing. I was not entirely familiar with them but I decided to do a little research and actually started a dialogue with the company and I wanted to share the info with everyone here.
First, I have no affiliation with ADS outside of the current work they are doing on my truck, so this is not a shill, just wanted to let everyone know what was going on. As the process moves forward, if there are folks interested in seeing more, I will post the updates they send me for anyone who wishes to follow along.
Upon checking the ADS website, I was having trouble finding the Gen 2 suspension offering. I contacted ADS and a gentleman named Tyler e-mailed me back the following morning. He informed me that they did not have an offering but were interested in the development of one. I noticed they were in Arizona as well, but they are in Tucson and I am in Tempe, so it is about a 2 hour drive. Through some correspondence, I offered to loan them my truck to begin the development of the suspension.
I made the drive down today with a buddy and picked up a loaner car and went to check out the ADS operation and loan them my truck.
It was a great experience overall. I met with Tyler who gave me a tour of their facilities and introduced me to a few members of their crew. They had some incredible suspensions on the shelves. We discussed his vision for the Gen 2 Raptor suspension and gave him my input on what I was looking for and some of the feedback I had read from members of this site. It was great, a very collaborative experience.
I snapped off a couple pics when I was there. I felt odd roaming around and snapping photos but I will share a few with you guys.
There was also a garage in the building across the street and all of the laser cutting machines and lathes and machinery were in the back. I did not photograph those, but the facility was quite impressive, and the staff was wonderful.
I dropped the truck off around 2:00 today. In our talks over the past couple weeks, they told me they would not get a chance to look at it until tomorrow, so I was quite surprised to open my email when I arrive home 2 hours later to find this e-mail and photo waiting for me.
As I said, I will add information as I get for anyone who is interested. I am pretty excited to see how this turns out. Thanks for reading and if anyone has info they would like to share, I would love to hear it. Thanks guys!
When I was searching for a suspension, I was reading everyone's reviews and I was looking at the Kings which came very highly recommended, and the Fox Suspension as well, which also came highly recommended. I also had a chance to try out the ICON Stage 4 on a friend's truck and having had an Icon setup on my last truck, I knew they were excellent as well. So I was facing a tough choice. I reached out to a few people to get some advice and to see if there were any options I missed. Someone recommended ADS Racing. I was not entirely familiar with them but I decided to do a little research and actually started a dialogue with the company and I wanted to share the info with everyone here.
First, I have no affiliation with ADS outside of the current work they are doing on my truck, so this is not a shill, just wanted to let everyone know what was going on. As the process moves forward, if there are folks interested in seeing more, I will post the updates they send me for anyone who wishes to follow along.
Upon checking the ADS website, I was having trouble finding the Gen 2 suspension offering. I contacted ADS and a gentleman named Tyler e-mailed me back the following morning. He informed me that they did not have an offering but were interested in the development of one. I noticed they were in Arizona as well, but they are in Tucson and I am in Tempe, so it is about a 2 hour drive. Through some correspondence, I offered to loan them my truck to begin the development of the suspension.
I made the drive down today with a buddy and picked up a loaner car and went to check out the ADS operation and loan them my truck.
It was a great experience overall. I met with Tyler who gave me a tour of their facilities and introduced me to a few members of their crew. They had some incredible suspensions on the shelves. We discussed his vision for the Gen 2 Raptor suspension and gave him my input on what I was looking for and some of the feedback I had read from members of this site. It was great, a very collaborative experience.
I snapped off a couple pics when I was there. I felt odd roaming around and snapping photos but I will share a few with you guys.
There was also a garage in the building across the street and all of the laser cutting machines and lathes and machinery were in the back. I did not photograph those, but the facility was quite impressive, and the staff was wonderful.
I dropped the truck off around 2:00 today. In our talks over the past couple weeks, they told me they would not get a chance to look at it until tomorrow, so I was quite surprised to open my email when I arrive home 2 hours later to find this e-mail and photo waiting for me.
As I said, I will add information as I get for anyone who is interested. I am pretty excited to see how this turns out. Thanks for reading and if anyone has info they would like to share, I would love to hear it. Thanks guys!
