enlighten o wise one

 

wait...so your saying a stock jk doesnt have to be stock? my mind has been blown...

 

Karl covered the "upgrade" part of your statement. If you are buying a kit based on that fact the marketing team at Rock Krawler gets another win.

You are making a decision based totally on hearsay and are regurtating that on to others without any actual knowledge of use of any of the products you speak of. Knowing about suspension comonents and how they interact with each other and the steering will go a long way to chooseing a suspension. Not just comparing kits.

My brothers cousin's wife's friend knows a guy that read on a forum somewhere where someone said rock krawler is the bestest kit out there that flexes like mad and the great thing about it is that it is upgradeable.

 

I'm jonesing for a 2.5" aev kit just don't want to spend the money they cost new.

 

Thats what I thought. You still havent provided insight into anything your just bashing what I said. BTW, never said RK was the best or flexes the most, said after MY research it's pretty much more complete than the AEV and certainly you can grow out the kit, understand you need to be in range from on set. i.e. 2.5" lift you can add more 2.5" components to make the kit more complete. Sure you can do this with various parts and manufacturers but why not just deal with one company?

My brothers cousin's wife's friend knows a guy that likes to make himself feel good on the interwebs by bashing others.

Put some effort into your responses and help us uneducated folk understand your infinite wisdom regarding suspensions. Not saying you dont know your stuff but you sure havent displayed it here.

 

Much of the knowledge he and others have takes a lot of time to answer the 9.7 million similar questions each day that have been answered probably 108.7 million times (fyi being sarcastic here with my numbers).. For most people even if he goes in detail it will be argued,over there head or just re-asked in a day or so. And also as said below this is all beside the point he made an entire stickied thread to try and stop alot of these questions.

 

Might want to check out his sticky. Looks like he may have put a little "effort" into it.

 

Just some first hand experience. I just installed my second Rock Krawler with Bilstien 5100's (first was a TJ, then i got JK) and both kits are a great upgrade from stock.

First kit was a 3.5" Flex for the TJ - It was stiffer than stock, but not jarring and handled great on the freeway.

Second kit is the 2.5" X-Factor for the 2DR JK - I've had it one for a few thousand clicks now and its much softer than the older 3.5" flex. It handles better than stock and I don't feel body roll or like I'm in a monster truck ever.


I have been in a MC 2.5" 2DR and i find it even nicer than the RK rides, but i've never been offroad in it. If your a pavement queen then MC are definitely very nice.


The Biggest difference between all the kits are the types of joints from what i can tell. I believe MC is onto something with the new Joint they have, but its too soon to be called tried and true. I want to see how they last, but so far they look like the Johnny Joint killer.


Space

 

There is a link at the bottom of my signature, please feel free to read it as it will explain some things about suspensions. It is also listed as a sticky as well as others that will give you an education about your jeep. I have put together that thread as well as some others on other forums to try and educate people on their suspensions so I would not have to rehash the same info every day on the same questions. No bashing here but the RK kit you refer to is very incomplete with just coils, track bar, bracket, and sway bar links, so I can not see where you are stating about how much more complete a kit it is over AEV. BTW the op did not even ask about RK but you seem to want to chime in about it with no actual first hand experience with the kit.

The RK and AEV kits are really targeted to two different uses and if you are actually comparing the two lifts then you really don't know what you want or need. Comparing metal cloak to rock krawler would be more of a apple to apple comparison as they use the same type of set ups.

 

From the very little I have read, your "research" seems to be a bunch of regurgitated marketing malarkey.

Bring some specific questions. You and whomever might get more traction.