Hey whats Joel's username on here? i wanna see if Bilstein is gonna be worth it for my build. And do you work all week Jer? i need to grab up that headliner! Joel Ward Off Road/ Motorsports Technical Supervisor ThyssenKrupp Bilstein of America, Inc. 14102 Stowe Drive Poway, CA 92064 Office: +1 858-...

Hammers bound this morning, tuning starts in a few hours, see you all there.

tcm glx wrote:Great stuff Joel!!
Rumor has it you will have coffee too!! Hope to see you out there if I can make it out!

Yup, 1200+ cups of Dunkin Donuts coffee!

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1038446

Bilstein trailer is being packed and should be on the lakebed Sunday 1/29 through 2/11 tuning shocks.

Happy to work on bronco shocks as time permits between KOH race vehicles.

See you there!

philofab wrote:Need an extra set of hands? I'm thinking about heading out there for my first KOH, but I'm not much for standing around.

I certainly could use a hand. Probably going to work on 30-40 vehicles in 12 days...

hobbyturnedobsession wrote:I do but I have swayaways. (I bought them before I was on this site) Could you still help me?

If you have bypass i can help adjust them, if you have smooth body or coilover you would need to have shims for your shocks since i dont stock those. But yes as long as time permits I can help out.

Who is going to King of the Hammers 2012? If you havent yet attended it is a must see event and there is plenty of room to run a stable of Broncos around. Also if you need some shock tuning to dial in the "red cup ride" I should be out on the lakebed for about 2 weeks leading up to the race and am h...

The Bilstein tuning trailer will be conducting suspension tuning at the Soggy Dry Lake in Lucerne Valley on Friday 9/30/2011 through Saturday 10/1/2011. Please contact the Off Road/ Motorsports Technical Supervisor Joel Ward at 858-386-5900 or email joel.ward@bilsteinUS.com to confirm your team/ veh...

Well I finished my pivots today. I think they turned out pretty good. Also have a change in plans. I decided to go ahead and order up a set of FOA 2.5X14" smooth bodies with reservoirs. After doing some thinking I decided the doing 2 2" shocks would end up costing just as much, and would just mean ...

Andy Jones wrote:Princes & Jelly look good!! When's Princes getting her Face lift!!!

At KOH I affectionately named Keifers Bronco "The Librarian", since it looks plain but does naughty things.

I will be headed to KOH strait from Parker for a week of tuning followed by the race. Stop by the bilstein trailer to say hi.

I run the Nissan bumps on the rear of Patch. Thanks Chris for the suggestion years ago. I'm about to install a set on the front as Patch does have the room though the height is a bit of a concern. No, Patch is not a Bronco. I've only ever seen what this page shows, but these might be interesting - ...

Joel here, if I read correctly the question is which 7100 valving would be good for a Bronco. One little known secret of the 7100 is that it can be custom ordered with a valving not found on the chart. So if you were looking for a 7110sb you would order the 7110sb99 (the 99 indicates a custom valvin...

I have a pair of (scratch n' dent) 17" x 60mm smoothies in a custom short length sitting on the shelf. 25" col 42" ext. Thats only 1/2" longer than the 14" King 2.5" race length. Customer got a few bits of mig splatter on the tubes after plating and swapped out for bypasses. $500 for the pair. > Joe...

A note on easy-outs. If the broken bolt isn't turning then you need to stop cranking on the easy-out before it breaks. Drill it out to a larger size and keep doing this until it relieves the tension between the bolt and whatever it's threaded in. Yeah, I know, too little too late, but maybe it'll h...

BDKW1 wrote:How long is the box? It it's short enough you could turn it sideways on the front of a flat bed trailer and have a nice camper/toy hauler..........

I saw some like that at KOH. Also many slide in campers on flat bed trailers.

Camped with the KAL Off Road class 3 team for the weekend. Congrats on the win!

Great to see the Bronco's out in force at this race!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Bilstein trailer to say hi.

shockseals.com wrote:...
I know King purchased an EMA so we may see some real numbers from them soon.

Nice, I hope it is the 6k! ... 8 m/s

http://www.roehrigengineering.com/Produ ... 20page.htm

SteveG wrote:Joel, if you email the pdf file to gofastbroncos (at) gmail.com I can upload it to the site Google Documents page and post the link.

Thanks for posting the chart.

For reference a full size bronco rear bypass valving would start at...
30 -10 rebound
30 -6 compression

Usually when shafts bend it's for something else failing or poor setup. If everything is set-up correctly, 3/4" is plenty large enough for anything. 5/8" is good enough for 75% of the stuff out there. To revisit shaft bending a bit more... the bending comes from some kind of bind or side loading. T...