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Offline bioniconion

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which is better?
« on: November 03, 2004, 08:58:42 AM »
or should i say which is easier to install and run with

the rocky road 2.5inch suspension lift?
or the calmini 3inch suspension lift?
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2004, 09:03:59 AM »
IMHO

Better, Calmini

Easier, Rocky Road
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2004, 09:17:03 AM »
My god. Do a serch. This has been brought up alot. It all depends what you think you need. I wheeled the snot out of my emu kitt. never broke a thing.
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2004, 10:10:10 AM »
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My god. Do a serch. This has been brought up alot. It all depends what you think you need. I wheeled the snot out of my emu kitt. never broke a thing.


well that's rather cruel considering i searched for it over the past 500 days *search time* and came up with about 600 different ones..ur telling me u'd look through them all? jeeze cut me some slack im just asking for peoples personal opinions  :'(
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2004, 10:29:49 AM »
Even though I'm having some issues with mine currently, get the Calmini kit... The new control arms make it worth it, IMO.
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2004, 12:26:17 PM »
Bah. No need for the control arms.  Sorry about the search thing man :P. It just seems to be a catching thing around here. heres a reveiw of the Emu kitt. It's realy worth the read.http://www.off-road.com/suzuki/reviews/rromex90.htmMy reason for not buying the calmini kitt is, If i happen to bust up ont of those pretty control arms i dont want to have to buy a new one. You can get stock tracker arms dirt cheap, same with the rear link's.
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2004, 01:51:26 PM »
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Bah. No need for the control arms.  Sorry about the search thing man :P. It just seems to be a catching thing around here. heres a reveiw of the Emu kitt. It's realy worth the read.http://www.off-road.com/suzuki/reviews/rromex90.htmMy reason for not buying the calmini kitt is, If i happen to bust up ont of those pretty control arms i dont want to have to buy a new one. You can get stock tracker arms dirt cheap, same with the rear link's.

Have you ever seen one of the Calmini A-arms? I doubt anyone's gonna ever break one while properly installed... I mean look at what Hagen does with his rig :o ;D It's honestly my favorite part of the kit.
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2004, 02:23:48 PM »
I see what Mike does. My thought is, If i hit somthing hard enuff that the stock arm is going to give on and it's not there to give :-/. Im not into busting up frame's.
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2004, 02:39:11 PM »
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I see what Mike does. My thought is, If i hit somthing hard enuff that the stock arm is going to give on and it's not there to give :-/. Im not into busting up frame's.

But you mentioned breaking the control arm in the previous post... :P

Yeah, there've been cases of the frame bending around the arm posted here before ;D
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2004, 02:40:44 PM »
My vehicle is mostly street...I hummed and hawed for a long time over the Calmini 2", Calmini 3" and the RRO 2.5"...I eventually settled on the RRO kit and so far I am very happy with it. The on road ride is firm with very little body lean, but still absorbs the bumps fairly well...sharp bumps will still jar your teeth though if the tires are up around the 30# mark ;). I can't say much about its off-road performance as I've done very little wheeling since the kit was intalled...without the body lift I do still get a slight bit of rubbing with my BFG 235/75/15s.  Also, you will have to get camber correction bolts if you get the RRO kit...but those are cheap.

If I were to build up a Track/Kick more oriented for off-road I likely would go for the Calmini 3+3...even better would be the elusive Calmini SAS or RRO Rockfather SAS.
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2004, 02:43:51 PM »
I thought the Rockfather was a diffdrop?
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2004, 03:03:53 PM »
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I thought the Rockfather was a diffdrop?


That very well could be, I was under the impression that it was SAS ???
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2004, 03:05:35 PM »
I remember reading over at Pirate4x4 that it was a diff drop kit...
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2004, 07:03:23 PM »
Mr Calmini thinkt hat you wont break the control arms ,

I have heard people breaking stock ones a fair bit but not Calmini.

I run the calmini setup pushed to its limits and all seems well fingers crossed and touching wood :-)
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Re: which is better?
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2004, 10:20:58 PM »
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Mr Calmini thinkt hat you wont break the control arms ,

I have heard people breaking stock ones a fair bit but not Calmini.

I run the calmini setup pushed to its limits and all seems well fingers crossed and touching wood :-)

lol... that made me laugh for some reason ;D. You're not American, are ya? :P
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