Howdy pirate folk.
I recently purchased an 03 ZR2. On the zr2 boards there seemed to be a lot of happy people with the BDS 5" sus. lift. (bds-suspension.com). I had ORU (offroadunlimited.com) scheduled to do the installation. About half way through the front end they called me and said that due to the standards of the shop, they couldn't in good conscience install the kit as in their opinon, it was not a top-notch kit. They were also wary about the only other available zr2 kit, 6" from Trailmaster because they said that Trailmaster had bought BDS (I haven't verified that myself) and since they hadn't made any improvements on the BDS kit, they doubted the Trailmaster 6" was of any better design. Then they told me they could do a SFA conversion and were going to put together a few numbers. My main question in the meantime; Are any of you familiar with ORU's work? I had some of the zr2 boards reccommend coming over here for opinons because ORU does alot of high-end modifications and some of you guys might have some experience with their rigs or at least how they engineer their setups. My main concern is that their approach is going to have (insert all the jargon here about degree's angles n'stuff) designed properly. This is my only truck, it's new, it's my daily driver, and I plan to take it out on trips and put it through the paces on cross country endeavors here in the expansive southwest region. I'm not going to anything like compete with it, nor specifically take it out rock crawling or finding the hardest trail possible, rubicon, etc. I really just want to get it off the ground a bit and not be concerned about grounding out anywhere. SFA sounds great, I know the advantages/disadvantages on/off road and I had a built up fj40 a while back. but on the zr2 it also voids some warranty and if it isn't done right and the things in the shop every weekend, I'm going to feel really burned with no way to get back to what it was if it doesn't work out. I know ORU has great looking stuff, and some of the pics on ther site and articles they get certainly attest to the durability and operational capability, but like I said, I don't want to be 60miles out somewhere by myself and have something go wrong because it was overlooked. Simutaneously, I don't want to have something fly off the underside at 70mph (exaggeration of course) cruising down the highway at the beginning of a 4 day excursion because of (insert more mathmatical jargon here).
Sooooo, if any one has any opinons of IFA/SFA, BDS/ORU, I would really appreciate it. I'm on a fact finding mission and I thank anyone who shares their .02¢ in advance. Please, keep it to experience if you can. Conjecture will only cloud my already swirling head.
Much oblige,
Shawn
I recently purchased an 03 ZR2. On the zr2 boards there seemed to be a lot of happy people with the BDS 5" sus. lift. (bds-suspension.com). I had ORU (offroadunlimited.com) scheduled to do the installation. About half way through the front end they called me and said that due to the standards of the shop, they couldn't in good conscience install the kit as in their opinon, it was not a top-notch kit. They were also wary about the only other available zr2 kit, 6" from Trailmaster because they said that Trailmaster had bought BDS (I haven't verified that myself) and since they hadn't made any improvements on the BDS kit, they doubted the Trailmaster 6" was of any better design. Then they told me they could do a SFA conversion and were going to put together a few numbers. My main question in the meantime; Are any of you familiar with ORU's work? I had some of the zr2 boards reccommend coming over here for opinons because ORU does alot of high-end modifications and some of you guys might have some experience with their rigs or at least how they engineer their setups. My main concern is that their approach is going to have (insert all the jargon here about degree's angles n'stuff) designed properly. This is my only truck, it's new, it's my daily driver, and I plan to take it out on trips and put it through the paces on cross country endeavors here in the expansive southwest region. I'm not going to anything like compete with it, nor specifically take it out rock crawling or finding the hardest trail possible, rubicon, etc. I really just want to get it off the ground a bit and not be concerned about grounding out anywhere. SFA sounds great, I know the advantages/disadvantages on/off road and I had a built up fj40 a while back. but on the zr2 it also voids some warranty and if it isn't done right and the things in the shop every weekend, I'm going to feel really burned with no way to get back to what it was if it doesn't work out. I know ORU has great looking stuff, and some of the pics on ther site and articles they get certainly attest to the durability and operational capability, but like I said, I don't want to be 60miles out somewhere by myself and have something go wrong because it was overlooked. Simutaneously, I don't want to have something fly off the underside at 70mph (exaggeration of course) cruising down the highway at the beginning of a 4 day excursion because of (insert more mathmatical jargon here).
Sooooo, if any one has any opinons of IFA/SFA, BDS/ORU, I would really appreciate it. I'm on a fact finding mission and I thank anyone who shares their .02¢ in advance. Please, keep it to experience if you can. Conjecture will only cloud my already swirling head.
Much oblige,
Shawn
