Best Supplier of Overriders?

[D02G]

I'm ready to purchase front and rear overriders? Ay recommendations on where to buy them? Also, what accessories do you recommend for them?

Thanks

Brian

[edwardb]

The ones from Factory Five are nice and the spacing fits our cars. Polished stainless. I've used them on two builds and like them a lot. ********** sells them too. They're chrome over brass and from I understand slightly different spacing.

[Papa]

+1 for the FFR parts. Very nice quality and much heavier than I expected.

[D02G]

Do the FFR ones come with the grommets and all parts needed for install?

[Papa]

Do the FFR ones come with the grommets and all parts needed for install?

They don't come with grommets and they attach to the bolts that came with the car that support and attach the body to the chassis. The grommets are available from ********** and when Jeff Kleiner painted my car, he used larger 3/4" (I think) stainless steel tubing instead of what came with the kit. You can kind of see the setup in this picture Jeff sent me as he was assembling my car after paint.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=116203&d=1571431282

[D02G]

They don't come with grommets and they attach to the bolts that came with the car that support and attach the body to the chassis. The grommets are available from ********** and when Jeff Kleiner painted my car, he used larger 3/4" (I think) stainless steel tubing instead of what came with the kit. You can kind of see the setup in this picture Jeff sent me as he was assembling my car after paint.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=116203&d=1571431282

Looks great. Thanks

[jrcuz]

I would't recommend the ********** overriders. I have them and the quality is great but the bolts that come with the FFR kit are too big to use with the ********** overriders without some modification. The ********** units use a different method of attachment.
JR

[canuck1]

I have ********** overiders but have seen FFR supplied pieces too. They are both decent quality, not much to choose between them on this front other than chrome and polished stainless don't look like the same color tint when you see them side by side. Some people have a preference for the depth of color in chrome but stainless is much less expensive to fix if you end up somehow damaging the finish. I think (?) the ********** front overiders are still different than their rear overiders though. The mounting plate on the pieces designed for the front are angled to more closely match the desired mounting position. The FFR set of overiders I saw were all the same front or rear, with a flat mounting plate, like **********'s REAR overiders. You'd need to create the correct mounting angle up front using different length spacer tubing on the top and bottom mounting bolts. Not a big deal though, since you need to cut all four tubes to length as required no matter which overider you have. I apologize if I'm out of date and things have changed since I played with these things.

Sean

[AC Bill]

I am very happy with the FFR product.
Drilling the stainless front over-riders for the hoop mounting bolts, was quite a feat, as they are extremely tough metal. I ended up with a cobalt bit on a drill press, to get through them. The HSS bits were useless with a hand drill.
Mounting them was a snap on the front. Getting the correct angle on them was not difficult at all. It required a slightly different system for the rear mounting, (least on the right side), then what FFR provides for in their instructions. Unless you want to drop the fuel tank. In my case the tank was already mounted, so I used the ready rod, (or All-thread as some call it), method. This method can be found on a few threads on the forum, and there are slight variances used.

[Jeff Kleiner]

...The FFR set of overiders I saw were all the same front or rear, with a flat mounting plate...

I've installed a bunch of 'em and the Factory Five fronts do indeed have an angled mounting plate to reflect the angle of the radiator opening. The rears are flat. I've never installed any ********** overriders so can't speak for them however I have used their quick jacks and found that the front and rear have a different profile (which will be very apparent if you install one of each on the same end of the car...not that I did that...well, not more than one time anyway ;))

Jeff

[Boydster]

I installed the ********** pieces. There was no difference between the front and rears. All 4 the same part. Mounts are different from FFR... ********** has a nut welded in on the inside surface of the bumper so the threaded rod has to be screwed in. Think about that when you're trying to do 2 rods. The FFR's have a plate that can be drilled and a nut used behind it if desired. I suspect the FFR's are MUCH easier to install.

[AC Bill]

The FFR's have a plate that can be drilled and a nut used behind it if desired. I suspect the FFR's are MUCH easier to install.

My FFR overriders had the plates already drilled, and threaded for the bolts, both front and rear. No nuts were required. Very easy to install. As Jeff mentions the front ones already had the plates angled.
122474

[Boydster]

My FFR overriders had the plates already drilled, and threaded for the bolts, both front and rear. No nuts were required. Very easy to install. As Jeff mentions the front ones already had the plates angled.
122474

Gotcha, Bill. Thanks for clearing that up. My comment was with the One of Jeff K's mods... the threaded rods are installed to the frame with threaded couplers, then the bumper holes are drilled and nuts are used to secure.

[AC Bill]

Like these threads show.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showthread.php?14243-Rear-quick-jack-mounting

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showthread.php?30564-Mounting-over-riders-with-rear-threaded-coupler-mod