It's nice stuff, but I'd be really surprised if it kept up with any of the long travels through the bigger stuff. One can make up for less travel with tuning and overall damping capacity to a point, but all things being equal, more travel is better. Short course style laps of course are going to demand different tuning and suspension capabilities than 2 to 3 foot whoops as far as the eye can see. Not trying to take away from the obviously quality engineering and build here, just saying your stage 5 front end is going to be a more apples to apples comparison with the lt kits already on the market.
A longer arm will in fact travel more, I will not argue your point there. In theory a longer kit with more travel should work better. I've just got a few things we'd like to point about our kit and it's purpose. After the raptor run in March we talked with our potential customers and told them what Rogue Racing had in the plans for suspension. From stage 3 to five, or however you would like to label it. Stock width, versus longer arms. Most complained that current kits had "limited steering with a bypass" or poor road manners" a heavy steering wheel" most raptor owners wanted a few things, great road manners, 37 inch tires, a sway bar, full turning radius with a bypass shock, a quick easy install that a local shop could do without a welder, and the ability to push their truck to their driving limits without it breaking or being knocked out of alignment. Initially we wanted to build a bigger, wider, longer travel kit, but there are some factors most don't know. In the rear your up travel is limited by your frame. And your front is limited by the stock core support/inner fender well area. Most people for want to cut the entire front structure for more up travel. So stock with or plus 2 up travel is limited in the same place. So all the "extra travel" is at full droop unless you raise the ride height for a little more up and most customers don't want there trucks taller. I'd like to talk about the way bypass shocks work, they are stages so they are softer at full droop all the way down then they are at bump, bottomed out. They progressively get more stiff as they bottom out. We have tuned a lot of vehicles and what I'm getting out is if one truck has a plus 2 inch kit, and one has a stock kit. And they both have the same amount of up travel from ride height even the most experienced driver won't notice an additional 2 inches of down travel as the shocks are very soft at full extension.
We have a long travel kit in the works and it will have all of the features our current kit has listed above that no other kit offers at the time. We're confident others will start to include some features we showcased as standard at the SEMA show. But in our opinion after having both, this is the kit most raptor owners want.
-No welding, No waiting. Install and perform, no excuses or variables. A perfected, tuned, stock width kit. Your raptor is already 92 inches wide that's trophy truck width.
On the short course note, look at a pro lite they have 12 inches of travel and look at the beating they take, or a pro 2 that only has 18 front 20 in the rear. You can do a lot with a little. Tuning a short course truck is similar. A desert truck has the tendency to be loose and sloppy providing to much roll. A short course truck has to take huge landings, corner with stability and have good driving manners to battle side by side with 20 other trucks. We've spent a lot of time with both desert and short course trucks and there are things learned from both that go into our kit.
, I meant no offense that your kit was too expensive. I was referring to jumping straight to stage 4, that is a leap.
