King 2.5 OEM installed

[astro_fusion]

Slapped this kit on last night, have seen it on a few local gen14's, but not much talk of it. Claims +25% wheel travel, looks like all the eye to eye vs stroke lengths are more efficient. Sits .5" higher than my leveling puck setup, see if the springs settle. 275/70-18 tire for ref. I'm pretty good with tuning these shocks, will report back after some miles if science needs to happen.

Feel free to post up pics or opinions if you've ran this kit.

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[Fox146]

Interesting on the routing of the line for the reservoir compared to the Fox .I had considered these but I can’t remember why off hand I decided on the Fox 2.5s ?. I caught a sale on them I think that was it ??‍

 

[antho]

Looks great. Any plans for upper control arm and rear leaf setup?

 

[astro_fusion]

Looks great. Any plans for upper control arm and rear leaf setup?

Hey thanks! An upper arm or some way to add caster to the front is on the list. Probably wont get too wild beyond that, just needs to be able to extract my B2 if need be.

 

[mxwrk]

Interesting on the routing of the line for the reservoir compared to the Fox .I had considered these but I can’t remember why off hand I decided on the Fox 2.5s ?. I caught a sale on them I think that was it ??‍

I considered these as well but instead just ordered the Fox 2.5 Elites. The reservoir hose coming out through the top hat would have interfered with the high voltage wiring on my PB on the passenger side. I still prefer fox but King makes an excellent product and are down the street from me as well.

 

[Fox146]

I considered these as well but instead just ordered the Fox 2.5 Elites. The reservoir hose coming out through the top hat would have interfered with the high voltage wiring on my PB on the passenger side. I still prefer fox but King makes an excellent product and are down the street from me as well.

Right, it would have on mine as well and now looking at their install instructions it looked like more work to install the reservoirs. Still a nice looking kit though. I had also considered the Elka 2.5s

 

[zx6roclet]

Waiting for my rears to come in and then I’m tackling install as well. Worth every penny and look great!

 

[powerboatr]

Slapped this kit on last night, have seen it on a few local gen14's, but not much talk of it. Claims +25% wheel travel, looks like all the eye to eye vs stroke lengths are more efficient. Sits .5" higher than my leveling puck setup, see if the springs settle. 275/70-18 tire for ref. I'm pretty good with tuning these shocks, will report back after some miles if science needs to happen.

Feel free to post up pics or opinions if you've ran this kit.

Outstanding
Love the remark....slapped it on last night?
You work good in a pinch.??

 

[Suns_PSD]

Love it. How much lift over stock is it?

 

[9663mu]

Those are some sweet shocks mate. Very nice and fantastic stuff on the handy work. I’m always jealous of guys like you and always keep the wife away from guys like you. lol ?
Any chance you can do a fender measurement? Thanks

 

[astro_fusion]

I considered these as well but instead just ordered the Fox 2.5 Elites. The reservoir hose coming out through the top hat would have interfered with the high voltage wiring on my PB on the passenger side. I still prefer fox but King makes an excellent product and are down the street from me as well.

Yeah if your extra powerboost parts are on the passenger side it would be pretty difficult without displacing those parts and a gamble if they would fit back in their factory places, once the resi line is in, it doesn't take up much real estate though.

 

[astro_fusion]

Those are some sweet shocks mate. Very nice and fantastic stuff on the handy work. I’m always jealous of guys like you and always keep the wife away from guys like you. lol ?
Any chance you can do a fender measurement? Thanks

It's 40" to the center of the wheel arch right now

 

[astro_fusion]

Love it. How much lift over stock is it?

I'd guess 2.5" over stock with my configuration. I'm going to drop it to 2" if the springs don't settle.

 

[honda250xtitan]

Slapped this kit on last night, have seen it on a few local gen14's, but not much talk of it. Claims +25% wheel travel, looks like all the eye to eye vs stroke lengths are more efficient. Sits .5" higher than my leveling puck setup, see if the springs settle. 275/70-18 tire for ref. I'm pretty good with tuning these shocks, will report back after some miles if science needs to happen.

Feel free to post up pics or opinions if you've ran this kit.

Sits nice. The set on my wife's minivan (4runner) are plush.... maybe too plush actually for fast desert. Even with the clickers set to full stiff we tend to blow through the travel, hydraulic bump stops was an easy solution lol. I did one rebuild on them and took the internal spacer out of the coilovers for "extended" travel lol. But we've had them for about 5 years now and honestly theyre great shocks. IMHO they can use more compression valving.

 

[astro_fusion]

Sits nice. The set on my wife's minivan (4runner) are plush.... maybe too plush actually for fast desert. Even with the clickers set to full stiff we tend to blow through the travel, hydraulic bump stops was an easy solution lol. I did one rebuild on them and took the internal spacer out of the coilovers for "extended" travel lol. But we've had them for about 5 years now and honestly theyre great shocks. IMHO they can use more compression valving.

Sounds like a solid mini van setup! good on you keepin the wife happy hah! Definitely a buy once cry once item. But once you've felt what real shocks can do it's hard to live without.

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