Reverse perch, am i the first?

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In the research I did before buying my Raptor and then again when I was debating about mid perch I found a couple of articles (one I thought somewhere on the FRF forum) that said when the engineers designed and tested the prototyped Raptors that it was all done at mid perch, all steering, shock, and suspension engineered around it. When they went for final Dot the headlights were too high and they had No other choice but to drop it to the low perch setting. That's why most Raptor owners love their mid perch setting with stock shock as the is the way it was designed to be ran. Now when you go to aftermarket shocks I'm guessing the shock company's do there own engineering/testing and have their rideheigth set up for what works best for them...

Hard to believe that the engineering and testing was all done at mid perch, only to be undone at the 11th hour because of a DOT regulation. The whole department would have been fired for such an oversight. No way they would have designed and then done all thier tests on a set up that was not compliant with DOT.

This all said, someone please find this DOT regulation. I don't think you will find it, I have read that there are no such DOT regs for light trucks.

No mid perch for me until I do the back, or simply upgrade the front shocks and the back as well

 

[Humvee21]

Hard to believe that the engineering and testing was all done at mid perch, only to be undone at the 11th hour because of a DOT regulation. The whole department would have been fired for such an oversight. No way they would have designed and then done all thier tests on a set up that was not compliant with DOT.

This all said, someone please find this DOT regulation. I don't think you will find it, I have read that there are no such DOT regs for light trucks.

No mid perch for me until I do the back, or simply upgrade the front shocks and the back as well

You are right. The DOT regulation explanation is false. And so is the claim that SVT tested the Raptor on mid perch. This was all answered in an open interview with Jamal Hameedi that was documented by a member of this forum. I believe it was GMcmanus or Yukon Joe.

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[cups]

Oh, well if Jamal said..... It must be true.

 

[Gsteve]

I'm at mp and am either buying springs or going back to bp

 

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Oh, well if Jamal said..... It must be true.

Jamal would not have a job if he allowed his team to waste time and money testing a set up that was not DOT compliant to begin with. But tell me cups, why would the engineers test a non DOT compliant set up on this truck

Oh, and i will fedex you you ten Oz of silver if you can find the fabled 'mid perch killing' DOT regulation which forced the regulatory challenged SVT design team to switch the truck from mid purch to low purch

 

[Yukon Joe]

One of the things Jamal did say when answering that question was "I don't understand why people would want to limit the shocks travel by changing the perch setting"

They showed us quite a few charts and data plots from shock mounted instrumentation that indicated that the Ford team did a lot of in-depth testing and tweaks.

Yukon Joe
www.RUNRAPTORRUN.com

 

[cups]

Just a statement of faith.

 

[DieselD]

One of the things Jamal did say when answering that question was "I don't understand why people would want to limit the shocks travel by changing the perch setting"


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Which I found to be exactly right when I changed my perch. It was a noticeable loss of down travel which is one of the major reasons I went back to stock.

 

[Gsteve]

Mid p is just a bandaid as far as I'm concerned. If you need the height or increased off road performance buy springs. The longer I ride around on mid the more I hate it.

 

[6cuda6]

So if I read this correctly one should upgrade springs and shocks if they want to improve handling, increase or level the truck but maintain ride quality?