Savvy off-road sold? (the unofficial Savvy customer support and Savvy rant thread)
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If I needed to find out, then I would fully cycle the suspension without springs installed.
Then I would need to figure out something else, if what is there is not enough.
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idunno. I only understand what probably should be happening. I am going to trust that the piles and piles of guys who have built these over the years have figured out those little details.
I'm not claiming to know or trying to be a dick. Just genuinely trying to see if I'm correct or not. I'm intrigued by why Savvy is using the narrow JJ on one end. We know even just looking at the photos I uploaded that the RK joint will have to rotate both along the axis going through the bolt, and along the vertical axis. When you say 14° of rotation, is that full articulation with the frame end joint sitting under no articulation, or is there some on that joint due to the axle end joint hitting the mounting bracket?
In this picture, the axle is about 14° relative to the bumper at full articulation.
The point of that statement is that my front 12" shocks are longer than most and that this is less than half of the misalignment capacity of one single Johnny Joint. 14ish degrees is not some special number to focus on other than to demonstrate that any claims of providing extra misalignment by changing a control arm joint is silly marketing.
Beyond that, I do not know why Savvy is doing the things they are doing.
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"DAMN"Is what I said
Way too much for Me either way considering the original price....Fluxoffroad ftw!
There are very few onroad uses for it. Every application I can think of is in the dirt. Large farm equipment, dozers, tanks, military trucks, etc. all get stuck and need something to pull them out.
My other thought would be to make my own short arms. With companies likes summit machine I could get the links made and then source my own Johny joints. The only hard part would be making the front upper axle bracket end.
https://summitmachine.com/
https://summitmachine.com/
I just didn’t know Savvy had a niche in that off-road market.
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Others companies like Branik motorsports,Busted knuckle offroad,TMR customs,WOD (Wide open Design) Innovative machining,Hammer down enterprises
IIRC I think summit and hammerdown enterprises was one of the cheaper options back when i checked.As of now from what I'm seeing on Summits website you can only call in a quote....it's not configurable no more to where you can add diameter&length,thread selections etc
Just to put these companies I've window shopped before here's some more names!
Others companies like Branik motorsports,Busted knuckle offroad,TMR customs,WOD (Wide open Design) Innovative machining,Hammer down enterprises
IIRC I think summit and hammerdown enterprises was one of the cheaper options back when i checked.As of now from what I'm seeing on Summits website you can only call in a quote....it's not configurable no more to where you can add diameter&length,thread selections etc
Getting the aluminum bars and drilling and tapping them is not really the expensive part. Johnny Joints are the expensive part.
Ordered just the front uppers with the plan to make my lowers from summit machine links. Ordered and then 2 hours later changed to shipped. At least that part is good.
You’ve not priced 7075 aluminum in 2” diameter then. 130 buck an arm for 2” johnny Joints (last time I bought them, anyway). A Quick Look puts material at 84 bucks a foot, plus shipping and machine time
Midweststeelsupply.com has 2" 7075 T6 bar for $68/foot, plus they give discounts for larger quantities and lengths. To be honest I'm not sure on machining costs, but around here there's plenty of people who can do it for not much. Doesn't take long to drill aluminum.
To clarify, the cost of 4 2' bars was cheaper than 8 2" JJ, and the shipping was half from MWSS vs RockJock.
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