A few X's from socalcustoms.com show coverage

[racinjason68]

Air bags....

Well for anyone how has air ride I give a high five to. I have air ride and if you have ever tried to put air on your X you would realise that it is more than just bolting a bracket up. It takes alot of testing and time to "bag" a X. Trust me... As for just for show, well I am doing alot of work to mine and it is my daily driver with 20's and lowered on air. Check out my X and see what u think. As for the camber part notta prob, possibly a hair more tire wear and alot when all the air is out, but that is not how you are supposed to drive it. See you set the air pressure to a specific amount and have it alligned then when you are ready to drive down the highway air it up to that amount and cruise away with minimal tire wear, and a better ride than a hard drop. Hard drop I mean blocks and I beams or TT and blocks. Think about it your riding on air with shocks.. Trust me look at my pic mine has been both ways. A step ahead maybe not, but kudos for havin put forth the effort, definately. This is my opinion and I used to be all about 4x4's.... Till I gave it a shot and realized that there is alot to "air ride"...

http://www.cardomain.com/member_pag...brand_query=model=Explorer&tree=Ford Explorer
Later RJ68

 

[X24]

Your truck looks pretty nice. Nice job. I like the shiny paint.

 

[Jesse]

Apart from the fugly rims on the first two, definitely some nice custom work here!

 

[expo5.0]

bags are a lot of work and tons of props to anyone who does them themselves! and even more props to anyone who designs them themselves and does it in such a way that they are durable, ride better than stock, and actually improve the vehicle.

but 98x24 is right, i'd take my truck anyday over one of those. it looks almost as good (but would look better if you could just picture my hellions as 22s or something -but that would not be functional so what would the point be?) and it actually drives. i really don't get those kind of vehicles, they appear they've never even been driven. i mean i emulate (or set depending on how you look at it) the style of those trucks, and i love to look at them. however, in another way i really don't get it. why wouldn't the person with that much money build a truck like rocket5759 is trying to build, all smoothed out with 20s, tvs and a 347. he's gonna be tight as hell and far functionally superior to a stock explorer and infinitely more functional than one of those. or why wouldn't they just buy a nice car like an m5 or amg benz or something? i know that if i ever get the kind of bucks to build a truck that just sits around and is completely non functional i never will. thats not to say i won't modify my vehicles, just that i would never modify them in a way that makes them unusable. its too bad that when you go to a show people don't look at the functioinality of the vehicles. its also too bad that in this day in age it takes ripping your truck apart and actually ruining its functionality (handling, towing, space in the back (for a "wall" of subs), visibility, etc. etc.) in order to make a statement loud enough that your truck gets any visibility at all. flipping through old issues of trucking circa 96 or 98 or so i see the kinds of vehicles i wish were still on the cutting edge today. there are suv's on 17s with mild drops and supercharged v8s with almost stock interiors and stealthy system installs and chevy trucks with dubs (oh my god their huge) but with functional drops and real engine mods. today the same vehicle would barely make it into their readers rides section. and it takes a truck you would never actually drive to make it into the magazine. I hope more and more enthusiasts will give props to the functional vehicles and the balance will swing back in that direction! we should be promoting lowdpipes mountie, 98x24s truck etc. those vehicles and others like it are the street modified vehicles that i want to see more of. if you read all of this i'm impressed, and i hope you feel whre i'm coming from and aren't offended or anything. i'm not trying to single anyone out and say i don't like their truck, just that i don't like the direction things are going in.

 

[X24]

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[expo5.0]

you agree but we're both stupid for thinking that. right?

 

[X24]

Apparently the little guy seem to think you are the stupid one.

 

[jasonf83]

Why does everyone think that you cant use a bagged truck the only thing you cant do that expo listed is towing. I will bagg my explorer and still handel if want it to if you run fb air ride you can still use your sway bars. I truly think yall are just scaird to cut! If you know what you are doing and do it rite you have nothing to worry about. I am not hating but yall arent true minni truckers. You have to have a love for it and i guarintee if you are around it for a weak and dont think negetive about it you would grow to love it. i dont want my explorer to handle so i will remove my sway bars and run a fbss 10 switch box.

Jason

 

[expo5.0]

or maybe i'm stupid because its a lost 'cause. as a mature 19 year old i'm too old to get the new styles i'm too conservative and stuck in my ways so why did i just write a fing essay about it?

 

[expo5.0]

jason- i just saw your post not true, i'm very interested in bagging my truck. in fact i've been doing tons of research into how i can do it and retain my towing ability as well. i'm not saying bags are bad, just that those trucks pictured back there with bags that are done just for show and just cookie cutter mods other than that are dumb and i wish things weren't going in that direction.

 

[jasonf83]

Why bag it and not lay frame??????
You have to cut an assload to lay frame!!!
+ new gasstank and rear interior.
How do you know they arn't daly drivers?
I wouldent trust towing annything with a monster notch in the frame.

 

[expo5.0]

exactly, if you really wanted it to perform properly you would bag it so that it was adjustable from the lowest you can go without compromising the ridgidity of the frame and everything that goes with doing that to a one or two inch drop at the other end. that would be what i would want to do with bags.

 

[expo5.0]

i didn't say they weren't driven daily. i said they weren't daily drivers.

 

[racinjason68]

Ok first off I am not agree'n or dis agree'n with anyone. Mine is a first gen X with I-beam not a easy bag situation. Mine is for show a bit but I am the same as 5.0expo it is my daily driver so how I do things must stay safe and usefull. Also mine is not built to tow, I dont feel that the tranny in my body style was built for towing. Hince the reason my X does not lay frame and it prob never will. But it is fixing to go lower than it is now. I agree that it seems like you have to spend @ least 10g's or better to even get in most mags or noticed at shows. Keep it real and keep it usefull. Later RJ68

 

[james t]

well....get ready....... here's my $0.02.......actually worth $0.01.......... i think what drew is trying to say, is its not really so much the bags that make the thing useless, its the bags/laying frame/22-24" wheels/225/30/22 tires. its the COMBINATION of these, not just the bags. i can only briefly comment on bags, as i have only had seat time in 2 bagged trucks.
the first was my cousin's chevy fullsize, and it was bagged BECAUSE he towed. he builds street rods, and used this as his tow rig. but, it only had a 5/7 drop on it all the way down, and it had 17" wheels with super tall 50 series tires (that was meant to be sarcastic). the thing road great, towed even better, and was C-notched. the other was this kid around here with a Nissan truck with 20"s and 30 series rubber, and it has a mild body drop. it just rides like ass.

basically, i have nothing against bags. but, like expo and 98ford, i just wouldnt even dream of living with the harshness of 30 series rubber and a B-drop.

 

[jasonf83]

i dont have a problem with a bad ride and i am not going to body drop either

 

[jbhill]

ok my ranger is bagged and it rides good as hell. bags can realiable only if installed correctly. ive done 4 rangers. 2 control arms and 2 ibeam ones. tehy r pretty much the same as the ranger. i htink soem guy on www.rangerpowersports.com is tryin to ge a guy to make drop control arms for the edge(same as 95 up torsion bar X)