My question to L8 was in regards to a true coil over suspension that could potentially yeild MORE travel than either system.
To L8, If coil swaps are not in the L8 build plan that is cool with me. Just asking. Lets end the coil/EAS debate end here so as to not turn your thread into a 100 page monster with us all arguing.
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The coil over idea is not a bad one. But I think it will be cost prohibitive. Let's say for the sake of argument.
A cheep coil over is around $400 each $1200
Then some sort of adapter brackets to make it work. $450. "Using the RTE D1 shock conversion kit for a price guess"
And then we still need a computer override harness. Lets go with $500.
That brings us to $2150.
And all of those prices are probably way too low.
The next issue I see with the coil over system is the CV joint angles. With more flex your going to have harsher angles plus you run the risk of pulling the shaft right out of the CV.
To do it right I think we are lacking a few pieces in the coil over puzzle. First would be extended upper and lower control arms to accommodate the increased lift / articulation. For the new arms to work properly we would more than likely need increased length CV halfshafts.
The reason I went through all this is so you know we did not just pooh-pooh the idea of switching over to springs/ coil overs. The way we looked at it was these trucks are getting close to 9 years old and most of the air systems are working flawlessly. Combine that with the very effective terrain response system it is hard to justify abandoning the air system
