Suspension Travel/Droop, W/WO Lift Info - Post Yours Here

[Bluebaru]

Post your info here.
1. What model do you have
2. Stock or lifted?
3. If lifted, what kind of lift do you have and how much? (spacer, springs, coilovers)
4. How much droop do you have, with the front end completely of the ground vs on the ground?
5. How much with one front wheel off the ground?

Measurement to be from top of tire to bottom of front wheel arch.

The reason I'm posting this. Does a lift affect your suspension travel and/or how and another member here told me he has substantially less droop, than me, on his Badlands, with a spacer lift.

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[Bluebaru]

Post your info here.
1. What model do you have
2. Stock or lifted?
3. If lifted, what kind of lift do you have and how much? (spacer, springs, coilovers)
4. How much droop do you have, with the front end completely of the ground?
5. How much with one front wheel off the ground?

Measurement to be from top of tire to bottom of front wheel arch.

The reason I'm posting this. Does a lift affect your suspension travel and/or how?

1. 22, Badlands
2. Lifted
3. Flatout coilovers with a 2" lift and 14", 212lbs front springs
4. an average of 4.25" slightly diff left to right.
5. not measured yet

The reason I posted my spring rate is, I'm pretty sure that will affect both spring compression and suspension droop.

 

[jhnvan]

22 OBX
Lifted
Flatout 2 inch lift, HRG rear shock extenders, Ford ranger lift rear subframe 1 inch spacer kit
droop at front is same as before,
Droop on back hasn't been measured but with the shock extenders I have the same or more as before.

The lack of shock extenders is the reason people have less droop on the back. The shock tops out sooner due to the lift. The front isn't effected by it as it doesn't change the strut compression height.

 

[Ksnau]

1. 2023 bronco sport heritage
2. Universal air air suspension
3. I can can slam it all the way down or bring The front I think an inch and 3/4 IIRC and the rear goes I think an inch and a quarter higher than stock So basically when I measure the lowest points on the exhaust it used to be 8.6 in now it's 10 in from the ground at the highest extension or at 100 PSI which is high as I make them go.
4.Dame as stock I believe
5. Same as stock I believe
Xtra. I also have I believe 21 different settings from soft to hard on the dampers I usually have it sitting at 11 clicks towards hard unless I have my trailer attached then I turn it up to 15 clicks towards hard from zero or softest setting.

it basically sits at 18 in from the center of the hub to the top of the wheel Arch in the front and 19 in the rear which is what I measured stock and a very nice gentleman on the forums also verified as well as my coworker who has a 23 Badlands to make sure I had it at the stock heights.

It's super fun and I love it and I've had it for almost a year now and the only issues that I've had so far are with the front right tire the switch on the manual controller. I have the the seven switch controller the front right one on the old controller. The up switch on the front right tire would stopped working so I bought a new one when they were on sale. Same model and it worked fine for about a month and now sometimes the down setting on the front right tire sometimes doesn't work and so now I'm starting to think it actually wasn't the controller but actually the valve manifold because I just have a acuare V4 clone. Eventually I need to replace it with a real AcuW4 and also replace it with a real AccuWeather controller with heights and sensors so I can have presets and it'll automatically adjust itself as well as having manual buns. But it only cost me 900 bucks to do the manual setup with tank and everything. And just to upgrade to the accuair automated controller with height sensors is going to cost me about 1,700 bucks. So if someone else wanted to do this and do it with an accuair valve controller and software, you'd probably looking about five grand versus the 3700 that I paid. Plus I put about $200 into it, replacing the controller and some other stuff. If you possibly want to do it, I recommend talking to switch suspension in Mesa, Arizona. They're the only ones that offer it for the bronco sport right now. Mine was based off the Maverick kit but they had to alter something with the rear mounts, but they do have a bronco sport specific one now.

The only thing that I would change on it is I wish they used slightly bigger bags because these bags I believe only inflate up to 6 and 1/2 in and the sport I believe has 7 and 1/4 in of articulation in the front and 8 in in the rear at least on the Badlands and so I can't actually control the full amount. But as long as you set it up correctly in the beginning you'll still get the full amount of articulation off-roading if that makes sense. Because basically it can come off the bag a little bit in the rear to drop down more if it needs to in the front. I don't think I can do that. And the problem is that the bags. If I remember right they're like five and 1/4 in wide and to get the longer bags that have like 8 in of travel. They're like 5 and 1/2 in wide and so I don't know if the metal part that seals the bag at the top and bottom would be able to seal that extra quarter of an inch. But if the bags ever break I'm going to try. Sorry, I know this is way more information than you asked for. You can just ignore it for the parts that don't answer your question.

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