Who runs kings?

[Brendo310]

The only difference I've really heard is within the spring rate.

King runs a higher spring rate up front like 675 while fox runs 525. I've heard the kings are a little harsher on road due to the higher spring rate.

Oohhh and fox is the only company running IBP coilovers upfront as they patented the tech a few years back.

Love both companies and run both their products.

 

[SwampKing]

This is the setup Imma be going with in the near future. Which vender has the greatest prices on kings is the question?

 

[Westside Offroad Group]

Both are great shocks but it's a very large stretch to say one is night and day over the other. I could send you a King right now that is set up completely wrong and handle worse than a Rancho 5000. The same be said of the Fox. The real question is how do you use your truck? What kind of driver are you, and do you have someone to tune your shocks for what you like, not what others like. The King is a speed sensitive shock with compression adjustment. This means you can adjust firmness but no matter what the shock is still damping based off shaft speed. To properly set up a speed sensitive shock for the dirt, you will sacrifice daily driving ability.

The Fox is an Internal By-Pass set up meaning it's both speed and position sensitive offering much more versitile shock for both daily driving and the dirt. By-pass technology allows you to fine tune the truck for both small washboard type of stuff and big whoops all while using the same shock.

Moral of the story, both are great shocks. The real question is who is tuning them for you and which shock can give you the best results YOU are looking for, not what you have heard.

Here is an older post from RPG back when the forum produced useful information. Note this is from a vendor, and thus take it with whatever bias you'd like, but the information is correct.

This is one of the posts that helped me decide on which 3.0s I decided to run on my personal truck, which serves double duty street daily driver and offroad toy.

 

[skyscraper]

Good find JB, thanks! I didn't come across that info in my search. I guess the real determining factor is how they are going to be valved. My coworkers brother owns a shop and builds trucks, I was going to have him adjust them for me. He mostly deals with king and I figure he could probably find the sweet spot as far as tuning them

 

[SwampKing]

Good find JB, thanks! I didn't come across that info in my search. I guess the real determining factor is how they are going to be valved. My coworkers brother owns a shop and builds trucks, I was going to have him adjust them for me. He mostly deals with king and I figure he could probably find the sweet spot as far as tuning them

Can u keep us updated on your findingsas far as fine tuning goes....? Are you running these in an scab or screw?
I'm totally understanding the difference between fox, king, and icon as I been keeping up to date throughout the past 2-3 years. Tomorrow, I might change my mind. Lol. I have buddies that's had the fox's and are running kings now.....they really liking them but run a lot Offroad. They soak up some chit and never been rebuilt. They rolling on 58k miles with the kings and rides very good on road. Then again, I know a lot of guys running the icons and fox and neither of us had any complaints= WE JUST TOO SPOILED with options these days, LOL!

 

[skyscraper]

Scab. There's an offroad swap meet near Palm Springs in about 6 months, I'm hoping to find a good deal there.

 

[SwampKing]

Sorry, just edited my previous post as you replied, lol. Imma go ahead and order kings and get them to custom make them in Race Red and Black colors
Or so I'm tempted after seeing these pictures!

I'm wondering when fox is going to have their DSC's available to ship.......
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[skyscraper]

Those red ones look badass!

 

[justvettn]

I bought a set of King shocks from a member who was having them replaced by some long travel Fox. I was expecting the company that was installing the New Fox shocks to rebuild and tune the Kings since they were the supposed experts in tuning shocks for the Raptor. To my surprise they were sent to King by that shop to be rebuilt and set up for the Raptor.
I called over at King to see how things were going and asked if I should have them tuned by that company and they said hell no do not let them touch your shocks they will only F$%k them up.
I ended up selling those shocks and going with something else and the friend that bought them loves them. I road in his truck many times and they run great on the road with no harshness.

 

[A.I.I.Raciing]

I called over at King to see how things were going and asked if I should have them tuned by that company and they said hell no do not let them touch your shocks they will only F$%k them up.
I ended up selling those shocks and going with something else and the friend that bought them loves them. I road in his truck many times and they run great on the road with no harshness.

Of course they said that, there's a LOT $ in dialing shocks in and said shop is taking that $ away from the shock company

It doesn't matter what shock you go with, pick a color you like and re valve them to your driving style