Check this out
Im in no way related to this guy, just wanted to pass this along to all of us looking to improve our rides. Looks like a quality built kit.
Anyone running this or know someone who is?

 

That's not really a new way.....but I've never seen that particular brand of wideners. Looks basically like making your a-arm mounts longer, which could be done at home, fairly easily.


I think this would also have a negative effect on your camber....but I don't know. I just don't see how the shock isn't moved.....or lengthened.

 

thats really not a bad idea.

 

You're right it's not. It's a horrible idea.

These kits have been on ebay for about 6 months +, not a new idea as bradracer already stated. But a new outlet for them. The most common auction before featured a red 400ex with the kit which I believe had yellow plates.

It was covered then about the havoc that this design would unleash upon handling.

 

camber looks good, how would it affect handling? Shocks are also moved outward, dont see how it would affect anything

 

It affects your camber.......they might have changed it in the pic......but I gaurentee it is not right. To have bigger a-arms you need long travel shocks.......which they do not have.

 

Can you say bumpsteer. the reason frames are so narrow in the front now is to reduce bumpsteer. They wouldnt track very good in the bumps.

 

Of course all of this talk of handling ignores the possibility that the first time your front end plows the face of a whoop the whole front end could bend backwards... Let alone actual jumping or a tree clip.

 

Thats what Im thinking, the plates are 1/4in thick but that would still bend with a decent hit. I still dont see how it would affect bump steer, maybe Im seeing things wrong but it looks like the same thing as getting +X a-arms.

 

Bumpsteer is caused by the diffrence in the arc of the a-arm in relation to the arc of the tie rod. the wider the frame pivot points in relation to a narrower pivot point of the tie rod causes the tires to toe in and out ie bumpsteer.
Banshees and warriors have a lot of bumpsteer compaired to a Raptor or YFZ because of this.
Wider a-arms do not cause any more bumpsteer than stock a-arms because you have not changed the pivot points.
These change the pivot points out causing more bumpsteer, it is simple physics.