Hey guys....
Hey, my name is Rusty. I am brand new on here. I actually just signed up so that I could reply to this thread.
Here is my idea, and some of you may think it's extremely stupid, but again, it's just an idea I've had in my head for a long time, but never seen it put into form.
So, my idea is to run a fully independent suspension, independent front and rear suspension with portal hubs on each wheel. Of course, being that it would be IFS & IRS, upper and lower a-arms on each corner with shocks maybe running in front of and behind the axles inside of the a-arms mounted to a shock hoop in each fender well. As far as the shocks go, I would like to see this done for some of the reasons you guys were talking about. So, to begin with, it is a big reservoir shock, with coil over option. The coil overs would be split up, a big 3/4 length spring for big heavy drops and then a harder one to eat up the bumps in high speed. Then, on top of the shock, between the top of the coils and the shock hoop, an independently controlled airbag on each shock.
I have just had this idea in my head, like I said, but have never seen it in person or been able to sketch it out correctly to get a good visual of it, so if it turns out being really ignorant, just tell me, it won't hurt my feelings.
The airbags could be emptied and filled depending on which side is crawling up a big rock, to lift the body away from a rock or something, like with a solid axle setup, then leveled again when normal driving on flat surface. This way, you could get lower gearing with the portal hubs, the IFS & IRS handling on the road, like sports cars have, and the airbags over coil overs to give a leveling kind of solid axle support.
Does this sound ridiculous?? I get that it would be extremely expensive and need some serious work to put together, but I just think, theoretically, that it would work better than any solid axle or IFS setup currently out there.
Let me know what you think guys!!
Thanks.