Trooper long travel kit

[flatbed]

I have seen the new long travel kit that buggy world in san diego is going to be offering. It looks very nice and will bolt up to the stock mounts. It will have new front a arms and new rear swing arms. It also will come with a set of fox shocks. I do not know how much travel it will have, the car did not have the axles in it, they were getting the axles made. They were using the stock cv joints. Looking at it it was very nice, BUT to get the most out of it you would want to move the upper front shock tower and it looked like moving the rear diff. The car looked like it was probably around 8" wider, I know the guys that are building these for buggy world as they do some flame cutting for me at work. This is not a sales pitch and they do not know i am doing this. It looks like it would work pretty good for using stock mounts and if someone change there mounts it would work very well. The front and rear arms are built very well, and out of good steel.

I look at the forum once in a while to see how you guy and gals are doing, I have been very busy as i am now crew chiefing a pro 2 truck in the lucus off road series. My son has the trooper in Arizona, he uses it to hunt and take my new grandson out for cruzing. Hope every one is doing fine.

Lenny, i hope you are running a waste gate on your engine, you might also try taking some material out of the head in the combustion chamber, maybe take your lathe and cut some material out of the center of the piston also. Do not forget to check ring gaps as a turbo will make your rings and piston alittle warmer and close the gaps causing broken rings or scored cylinder walls. (i see you are the nutty one of this group, they do have a fearless leader.)

[Guest Lenny]

Hi flatbed, wow it was good to hear from you. Thanks for the comments and input. I know about ring gap but glad you mentioned it. It has been a long time since I had an engine apart and I completely forgot about it. I'll pull it down again and check it. Not too bad because I only have to remove the head, no cams in yet, and the pan which I can do without removing the engine. Congratulations on your crew cheif position. Some people get all the fun jobs, well I have to admit that I had a lot of fun too building some of the stuff I did when I was working for a living. Now I get to be worthless all the time. Hope we hear from you more often and good luck on your race series.

Lenny