SVT Boss goes on record About Raptor frame dammage

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nice find.

so deavers eliminate the jounce bumper ?
 

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Nice Read and find for that matter. Wish the engineer would have gone a little deeper as to details on testing and force it would actually take to have this happen rather than just saying beyond its limits. You know they have the data and probably had this happen at some point in testing to truely find the limits of this vehicle. Nice to see they are watching the forums. Hope they have their big boots on if reading the Z, shit gets pretty deep and stupid over there!
 

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This has been posted in the "bent frame" thread for a while but, it's cool. Yes, the Deavers eliminate the stock lift block/bump stop shelf.
 

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I've been saying it from the start and this just further proves my point. I agree 100% with what Jamal Hameedi said, the trucks are just being pushed to hard to certain sections. That was the first time I've seen actually video of the famous "kicker" that rocked everyone's world......holy shit ya'll are lucky a slightly bent frame is all it did.

I think for some people to understand you need to take this situation and put it in a real world situation that everyone can relate to.....most of baja, prerunning, offroad racing is about 85% smooth-ish roads covered in sand/gravel, its how you handle the remain 15% of dips, kickers, jumps, holes, etc that will make or break your truck. Picture traveling down the highway at about 80-85MPH and with your foot still on the gas running over a 1.5ft to 2ft brick wall......same result you get with a "kicker"
 

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That video is a joke and anyone that believes that little kicker had anything to do with the frame bending has no business in the dezert. The truck didn't buck at all it was a smooth landing, no kick, nothing. I honestly can't believe that people are claiming that was the culprit of this cluster phuc of bad press, I've seen a near stock Frontier hit that thing at 70 and never even phase it.

video of the famous "kicker" that rocked everyone's world......holy shit ya'll are lucky a slightly bent frame is all it did.

I think for some people to understand you need to take this situation and put it in a real world situation that everyone can relate to.....most of baja, prerunning, offroad racing is about 85% smooth-ish roads covered in sand/gravel, its how you handle the remain 15% of dips, kickers, jumps, holes, etc that will make or break your truck.



Have you ever been to a Score, BITD, Snore, MORE, or MDR race? I can tell you that your so far off on your assessment of race course's that its really not funny. What your talking about is no more than a fire road(aka as a freeway) that is graded road that is used to get to race course's.
 
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