ORI struts... How do you like to run them?

blacksheep10 said:

I can give you a starting point but that is all it would ever be. You're pretty much doing the lower chamber pressure by feel while driving. If it is Way stable and stiff as hell, lower it, if you have too much body roll, up it. In bad situations you're heavy enough or have bad enough geometry to require a lot of lower chamber pressure to fix your roll to the point it is stiff no matter what.
With lots of uptravel, if you have relatively flat links (nice high roll centers, not a bunch of torque induced lean) and aren't crazy heavy, I bet you can start in the 80 range. Go drive it.

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Awesome. I have 90 in there now. It seems stable but haven't wheeled it yet. My geometry is good. At 9inches I sit about 19 at the belly with flat lowers and downhill uppers.

I run 100 in lowers on front with about 6" of shaft showing .
Rear has about 90 with about 7-8 " of shaft showing
Truck weighs about 6k 14" ORI'S for what it's worth I love them only problem I ever had is a O ring on one of the dampener screws leaked!
I'm in the process of building buggy now and I'm going to run ORI'S on it also but I'm not hill killing ether!

I run around 120ish lower and whatever to get ride hight. Not everyone is "hill killin or bouncing" even then they aren't bad. I know my rig is just as capable as any other at any park I go to... If ya like 2 winches, sway Bars, bump stops, and swapping springs 11 times and tryin to get **** tuned right then grab some coilovers, be right up your alley.. Or If you drive like Adam lee. I don't think ori's would make it with him. But to say the are air shocks tells me you may try to chew on your shoulder often.

Here's a example of how bad they suck. Quite a few more videos on my channel if you want to see how bad they really suck..
http://youtu.be/xPHROk30FeU

how heavy is your rig kush

Here's a vid from a local competition a few weeks ago. My buddy ran the same course with airshocks and it beat the **** out of him, his wife had red marks on her neck from her neck brace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EokuFrmAnJI

My buddy has a 5-6K pound chopped K5 on STX's with resi's and that thing rides smoother than you'd ever imagine. I wish I would've remembered to put my gopro on his rig.

A little new tech coming from ORI

Game Changing Performance
The new reservoir can be ordered with 1, 2, 3 or more stages, depending on reservoir length and how crazy a build you want.
Equipped with an adjustment knob for compression damping control. Both the strut and the reservoir have thin, deep fins for cooling. ( shown unfinished )
The current STX strut already has two stages internally with the compression valve and bump stop.
This new 5 stage compression dampening takes these ORI Struts to a whole new level!!!

That will be cool. Someday I will try em

SBJeepn said:

how heavy is your rig kush

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No clue. I had someone that had built a jeep similar and they said 4500ish. .. Dam I think that's wat they said. Memory loss. I don't think it's super heavy. Ding don't could guess close I betcha! :****: (Adam lee being ding dong)

Fawk me that's about as pretty as can get. I want Em.

SBJeepn said:

That will be cool. Someday I will try em

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Sbjeep they work man .. Another video of them doing work. Also the day that I realized that señior Adam Lee is the best dam spotter I have ever seen. That fool had me on some **** that I would still be on without him helping. And that's no ****. Dam we was in the same page!! I remember being on still hill thinkin "please god let him know all I can see is him and not where I'm going." Haha.
Now I'm not going to lie if something ****s up on them , it kind of sucks. But it is rare And I have made improvements and upgrades Since the Seal issue. But at the same time they turn around I'm getting it fixed is very quick. And you couldn't ask for a better company to deal with... Maybe it's the fact that there 30 minutes away from me Haha. I've actually met all of them and they're really good people, that kinda **** goes along way with me. Plain and simple for Rockfount thing probably go with coil overs... If you're like me and like to go ride and not destroy your **** , they are absolutely 100% perfect :.. And the farthest thing from airshock I have ever seen. And if you want to say why Adam Lee does not run them .. Look up "Adam Lee on pick your poison" after u watch the video I posted. I think u can see just a tiny bit of difference in our driving .. Haha.
http://youtu.be/Eav4GhV8gpc

I wheeled my buggy last night for the first time. And it was nuts. I could fly on the whoops and hit ledges at speed and the stability for side hills and hill climbs was incredible. I ran 90 lowers and whatever upper to give me 8 in of up travel! Couldn't be happier

SBJeepn said:

I wheeled my buggy last night for the first time. And it was nuts. I could fly on the whoops and hit ledges at speed and the stability for side hills and hill climbs was incredible. I ran 90 lowers and whatever upper to give me 8 in of up travel! Couldn't be happier

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Good to hear!

A couple weeks ago I rode in Jerod Yankey's Bobmshell buggy the has ORI's on it. WOW loved it more than words can describe. We were doing hot laps around Chocco and that sumbitch rides like my buick.

I have ridden in tons and tons of buggy's. This was by far the smoothest buggy I have ever ridden in.

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the problem i had numerous times was the shock leaking out or by passing inside the shock , in the pic the left rear has no air, 7 hour drive to clayton ok and 3 hours trail rideing , shock decided to take a dump, you have to carry spare shocks,
with kings or any other shock the spring is holding up the rig, ORIs you depending on a o-ring inside the shock to hold air in top and bottom of the shock to hold your rig up. the seal goes bad,, your down for a month or more until it gets fixed,, or carry a spare.
i no linger have ORIs and have fox shocks WAY better, handles better rides as good, and they never sag on me,
if you have good luck with them , keep them ,, no one we know uses them any more for the same reason as above

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I've been running ORI's for 3 years and haven't had a single issue with them. I have never used CO's so I can't say if they're better or not.

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