Big block vs 6.0 ls torque

[Suicidal racing]

i aint been off roading up here since i was 7 or 8..been many many yrs ago now..but i do know alot of the 4x4 guys in the north and stuff run 46s an such claws or big ass super swampers..

What would be the down fall of it for being a trail truck besides the leaf..i would do coil over more then likely if i build one.

[bottledbird68]

Originally Posted by Suicidal racing

i aint been off roading up here since i was 7 or 8..been many many yrs ago now..but i do know alot of the 4x4 guys in the north and stuff run 46s an such claws or big ass super swampers..

What would be the down fall of it for being a trail truck besides the leaf..i would do coil over more then likely if i build one.

Way up north maybe but anywhere within an hour or two there's no need to go that big. It would actually be way too big for 90% of the trails around here.
Realistically 38's is about as big as you'd need to go for the majority of the terrain here and 35's would probably do just as well and still allow you to get away with actually driving to the trails without getting your balls busted. Hell, our jeep is only on 33's and it's been just fine for almost everything around here.
I agree that a 46" tired, rockwelled monster would be bad ass but it would be useless for almost ANY trail I've been on around here. Assuming of course you're looking for a useful trail truck and not a mud bog competition beast. If that's the goal then by all means have at it

[c4boom]

you lock up a truck on 38's and it will go just about any where as long as you dont high center any thing

[Suicidal racing]

what is the limits for trucks up here..max tire size,bumper height and such..been trying to figure that out..

florida you can run 52" tires if you want..just got to get the bumper heights right and that gos by the weight of the trucks really..2.5,4 and 5 tons all have different rules so you can go get your truck retitled and go up if you want..

An yeah i would want to do trail and mudding with my shit..like a all around beast..

[bottledbird68]

Heh, welcome to Massachusetts where lift laws really suck and there's no cheats around them.
Here it's not bumper/light height. Here they measure rocker panel height. There's two different laws on the books, one says no more than two inches up or down. But the one that most people follow is a registry formula. It's wheelbase and track width and some other arbitrary number.
Basically our tj on 33's is about 2" over the legal limit but for the most part no one notices.
On a full size truck as long as you don go crazy on lift height you can get away with 35's. Anything after that you're pushing it. There's a reason you don't see many huge trucks around here.
I've known two people who regularly drove trucks on 38's. One got lucky and got away with it. The other got his balls busted so bad he sold the truck to a friend who then got his balls busted so bad he took lift out and ran it on 35's and never got bothered again.

[Batman]

come to NY, technically changing ride height at all is illegal here, up or down. But they don't enforce it

[Suicidal racing]

oh man wtf..this state hates car guys..why the fuck are car laws so fucked up,up here..shit is b.s..i really like how if i have a rust hole in my front fender wheel well i cant pass inspection..its like ummm how is that hurting anyone..shit is size of nickle.

Im not even trying to keep the mustang semi street legal seeing i know i couldnt go 1 mile with out getting impounded..


I guess something like this is fucking way out of question then..



I can see a loop hole in the law..seeing you could get away with a extra 2" or so if you bought your truck off the show room floor and it already had a 4" or what ever factory lift kit on it..then it came like that from stock so you could go up and get that extra 2"s or so


I noticed there aint huge trucks up here have seen a couple nice lifted ones..shit you can clear 44"s on a chevy with 4" lift an beating the shit out of the fenders..Ill be on some 38s..i guess..shit blows

ill try some 6" springs and some 38"s maybe..either that or im stuck building a off road mud truck and towing every where..

[bottledbird68]

Yup pretty much. Any of those would get yanked in a heartbeat around here. Not ony are they way too tall if your tires stick out past the fenders at all they like to bust your balls too. We get hell for it in the jeep from time to time but I hate the look of really wide flares on tj's and it's only an inch or so past, not too obnoxious.

[bottledbird68]

It gets more involved but heres the basics. If you want more detailed info let me know and I'll get the whole thing:

[Suicidal racing]

thanks..found a loop hole maybe..that says 4 wheel drive vehicles so there for if im not wrong if you convert a 2 wheel drive to 4 wheel then none of that could apply do to the exact wording of it...Car would still have a 2wd title and reg as that..unless the same applys for 2wd crap..


Also i like the fact how they say for tire size no more then the max tire that came on it or was optional for particular motor vehicle..So if 33 where a option then you could do 35 or 36's..Im def going to try and find a back door to it..guess you could alway use a semi frame