yurtle
09-13-2002, 08:30 PM
This pic is just to illustrate, chosen at semi-random.
My 'Con trips date back to the early '80's and have gotten fewer and farther between since. Anyhow, The thing that keeps me wondering about Exos is how much the added weight up high contributes to rolling, or at least excess body roll.
My earliest trips were in an FJ40 that was fairly stock. Body mods actually came before lift, and eventually I had a relatively low-slung rig with lots of diamond plate and rockers trimmed rght up to the floorpan. Worked great until the big coffin-sized boulders started showing up in the little sluice, but that is another story.
As I recall, getting a steady girl resulted in runs with the hardtop on and much more body lean. Getting engaged resulted in runs with the hardtop and a roofrack full of crap, and getting married meant runing the trail with more shizzit than a cruiser should be expected to carry. I can still here the rain gutters bouncing off of
the trees just below big sluice.
Bottome line is that the pucker factor increased substantially due to an FJ40 hardtop, then a Con-ferr rack, than a lot of crap in the rack. 100 lbs. that high up is a lot.
So maybe, just maybe, this post has to do with a large quantity of Herradura Anejo. I'll give you that. Anyway, it seems like a reallllly heavy Exo is some form of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=842640
My 'Con trips date back to the early '80's and have gotten fewer and farther between since. Anyhow, The thing that keeps me wondering about Exos is how much the added weight up high contributes to rolling, or at least excess body roll.
My earliest trips were in an FJ40 that was fairly stock. Body mods actually came before lift, and eventually I had a relatively low-slung rig with lots of diamond plate and rockers trimmed rght up to the floorpan. Worked great until the big coffin-sized boulders started showing up in the little sluice, but that is another story.
As I recall, getting a steady girl resulted in runs with the hardtop on and much more body lean. Getting engaged resulted in runs with the hardtop and a roofrack full of crap, and getting married meant runing the trail with more shizzit than a cruiser should be expected to carry. I can still here the rain gutters bouncing off of
the trees just below big sluice.
Bottome line is that the pucker factor increased substantially due to an FJ40 hardtop, then a Con-ferr rack, than a lot of crap in the rack. 100 lbs. that high up is a lot.
So maybe, just maybe, this post has to do with a large quantity of Herradura Anejo. I'll give you that. Anyway, it seems like a reallllly heavy Exo is some form of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=842640