Kbee coilovers

[Hpimichael02]

http://classifieds.trailvoy.com/showproduct.php?product=4265&cat=4

Granted these are lowering coil overs maybe any ideas ? Since they already have the base product I wonder if the could make longer ones for us off road guys ?

[The Roadie]

Years ago I emailed KBEE three times and asked a US distributor to help. They declined. And their normal springs were WAY too soft to be useful. And I concluded if the spring choices were limited that their shock body would be also too wussy.

One SS parts distributor and I got into it big time on the OS when he started proposing KBEE REAR lifting coilover shocks to be mounted to the SHOCK mounting brackets of our platform. As if the shock brackets could accept the force we slam onto the axle tubes using the normal spring perches. I declared the shock brackets to be a totally unacceptable place to apply constant spring force PLUS the dynamic force of shock activity PLUS the abuse we give them offroading. Compared to his normal customers, who steer carefully around those scary 2" speed bumps, our needs were different and he continued to push the product. Nothing came of it.

You can actually get 1" of lift out of those units if you crank the adjuster up:

http://www.tbssowners.com/store/index.p ... oductId=16

But I still have no respect for the spring rate. The going price for offroad-worthy coilovers from almost any offroad vendor is gong to be $1000-1200 a pair, not $600 like these.

But you could buy them and install stiffer springs, and then see if the shock travel is good enough.