MIke:
You missed the point of the original post. LOwering is not the aim;
handling is. These people weren't bragging about how close they got to
the parking lot while standing still, but how fast they were able to go
around the course. Therefore, I don't care if there are a thousand
lowering kits out there. I'm looking for handling which was Gary's intent
when he designed the Hotchkis system. Lowering was used to augment the
handling but it was not the goal.
It's kinda like when you blow away a BMW. By rights, a truck shouldn't be
able to do this but we all know that Daks regularly do. By the same
token, Daks shouldn't outhandle sports cars in the twisties. With the
Hotchkis system, they do. That's the point. Scraping pavement is not the
point. Hell, I can let the air out of my tires to do that.
Richard in San Antonio
On Sun, 14 May 2000 21:53:38 -0400 "mike d." <miggitymike@juno.com>
writes:
> >>Richard, I'll have to chime in with you on this one. There is a
> tremendous
> amount of interest in the pre '97 Dak trucks. I'm sure you've seen
> the
> June
> issue of Sport Truck magazine, which had a very nice feature of pre
> '97
> Daks<<
>
> I'm gonna side with Hotchkis on this one..
> there are at least 4 companies out there that already make kits to
> lower
> pre-97 trucks via Spindles, Control arms, springs, monoleafs,
> shackles,
> hangers, blocks... and they also allow a much lower drop. Sure, they
> don't handle like a hotchkis kit, but they get the job done and
> handle
> great if you get the right kit.
> I like Hotchkis, and they make a great product... but I want more
> drop
> than Hotchkis offers...
> I just don't think they would sell enough kits to warrant the cost
> of
> R&D...
> and if they go with a spindle-type drop, there are different
> spindles for
> 97-90 and 91-96 so that's even more R&D costs that would have to
> come to
> the consumer... =(
>
> -mike d.
>
> -----> clubless in Yorktown, Virginia
> PROJECT 13's!! 88 Dakota that's slammed and gettin' a 360 Magnum!
>
> miggitymike@juno.com
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