Originally Posted by highoctane

What's the difference between the Teraflex Prerunner kit and the Teraflex LCG longarm system like I have. The only difference I can see is the foam in a can speed bumps. The shocks look to be the same 9550 shocks unless you upgrade to Fox or Elkas. The arms look to be the same. Everything looks the same.

Originally Posted by jcole

To clarify, I was running a 3.5" short arm lift in the past. The Jeep is now at stock height.

I don't want to build a full-on pre-runner, I mainly just want a quick fun vehicle that can go fast offroad, similar to the raptor. The reason I posted it, I don't see a reason for the long arms either. At 3", you aren't gaining suspension flex with long arms, as a stock location shock is the limiting factor in flex. Also at 3" the control arms are not very far from parallel to the ground.

I think I will call teraflex and get them to piece together a kit using everything in the prerunner kit minus the long arms and test it out.

Originally Posted by TeraFlex

The LCG is the first generation of TeraFlex weld on long arm kits with standard bumpstops. The PreRunner system use straight rear lowers, and 3" SpeedBumps front and rear, limiting straps, cam bolt washer kit and a trackbar gusset. Either kit can run the standard TeraFlex/ELKA/Fox shocks, but the Fox shocks that TeraFlex uses were tuned specifically for the PreRunner.

Originally Posted by mrmike

It really comes down to how you drive and how much you want to spend. I pushed my 3" kit to its limit in the desert. I could easily use more suspension but then again I will probably beat the car apart no matter what is on it. Even the Raptor's suspension can easily be over driven.

Evo can set it up for high speed. Their Double Throwdown is specifically made for high speed (80mph+). They know what is required to make one of these go fast.

As to the bump stops, I agree that a Teraflex bump may work ok but its no where near what a gas filled fox or king bump stop will do. My front end has 3" stroke fox stops. Worth their weight in gold if you are driving fast AND have LIMITED Travel. TF kit will have no more than 9" of travel so they really come in handy. With 12" of travel you have 3-4" more stroke to absorb the impact. It can eat up the same obstacle without ever coming near bottom. And as was pointed out earlier you have two springs on the shock allowing you to have control of the spring rates for both ride height and different types of terrain. In addition you can adjust your own ride height w/o changing springs.

THE BAD NEWS...after writing all this I want to throw away the springs on my kit and go spend money on the new coilover kit from EVO! I only have 1500 miles on it so I'm going to cry myself to sleep every night waiting to get it installed.

Originally Posted by highoctane

What advantage is there with the straight lowers in the rear? I saw just the rear lower straight long arms on your site.