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2bbs 2021 bronco build

All the clearance

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2big bronco said:
70-80 mph for 450 miles with a rubicon trip in the middle.

Gearing is 100× better then pre portals. It wasn't a problem before but being slightly lower off road is huge as well as being able to use all 7 gears on the highway. I'm at 2600 rpms at 75 in 7th which is right at the sweet spot where it will accelerate without down shifting if I need to.

Also slammed/drug 80% less on the con then before which makes for a much nicer ride.

Not sure if it's the added scrub radius or what but it seems like I can now turn full lock and actually skid the front end around sideways around/through obsticals now a lot easier instead of the austin powers turns.


Anyhow the portals seem to be everything I hoped they would have been. Still a stupid amount of money but oh well.



Oh and larger steering motor might as well be like adding hydro assist. Not problems turning on the rocks with the front locked now.

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Went into the Rubicon the weekend before ya! Beer tree for the win.
 
Got to crawl around it and check it out. The ground clearance is deceiving and cool. It doesn’t look tall or wide but the ground clearance under it compared to another one also with 37’s is pretty cool.

I have a bronco with front portals no rear portals. When looking at the back of mine all you can see is axle. 2big’s when following it down the highway looks like it doesn’t have a rear axle housing.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Maybe they don't want to mention towing because that subject tends to attract a lot of the attention from the "hurr durr you can't do that" retards. :flipoff2:
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Can you or cant you, according to the manufacturer? That might be another reason not to broadcast 2BBs bronco.
 
Beat95yj said:
I know a few people that have them. I have seen all kinds of interesting methods of retaining vehicles after their crush date. One of my favorites was the OEM was handed an envelope with two stamped vin plates in it and that was “the car”

Oddly import manufacturer seem to be less aware of where their vehicles are. I had a 300 Z (350?) in my old company warehouse for two years because Nissan forgot we had it, we were done doing research on it and it just sat and sat and sat until we called them up and said do you want this thing or what? In the meantime, we had borrowed tons of trucks and SUVs from them.
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A lot of production-based racecars are built from "$1 cars"

YotaAtieToo said:
You're wrong, more gearing down stream takes stress off anything before it. it's 22% easier for the everything before. This isn't marketing gimmicks, it's been proven for decades with portals and planetary hubs. This is how moon buggies are able to but 8" Toyota 3rds through absolute hell with 42" stickies filled with water. Those are ~2:1 portals vs 1.22:1, but the concept is the same.

Yes, it lowers the gearing...... That's the benift?



I'm not here to say portals are better in every single situation. That would be ridiculous. I just think you are painting with an extremely wide brush, based on a very limited experience.

How much with a 3" wider long travel kit run?



You lost all credibility mentioning bronc buster, that's the worst built bronco to date with a terrible driver. I've seen him explode his pos on a line a bone stock bronco and Rubicon walked right through :lmao:



4wp coil overs? :barf:
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The marketing shit I hate with portals is the "keep stock suspension geometry" you see advertised. Since almost all suspension geometry has to do with the contact patch, almost none of it is kept. "Optimized scrub" is another not-at-all-true statement. :flipoff2:

Since you're keeping the stock suspension, you have all the lift, none of the travel that you'd get with a regular lift. At full stuff, your tire will be as far away from actually stuffed as the portals gave you in lift. Only way to solve this would be to move the upper shock mount up, or lower shock mount down, then get a longer shock (assuming nothing else gets fucked).

As for stress, I think he meant the net stress is the same as stock since they're going from 33s or whatever to 38s. Running 38s without portals vs with would definitely be a net reduction in driveline stress. Ball joints, chassis mounts and suspension links will be waay more pissed off with portals than without though. :flipoff2:
 
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