Cchapman
10-14-2025, 09:05 PM
Now if you have the time to read through this all thank you.
I have been obsessed with pre runners ever since I went to a little highschool meet up with a couple of buddies and saw some trucks jumping a little jump we built I knew I needed to build one myself but as a lot of you know it gets to 6 figures very very quickly and I was still in highschool so I did what kids do bought a POS truck and did my best to get it somewhat to ride nice…. First problem truck as junk missing parts that were important if you were off roading not so much if it was a street driving truck. I had that one bent the frame pretty much totaled it. So I sold it basically for scrape the 20k total I had in the truck had to get rid of for about 5k…
So now what well my grandpa had a factory five cobra and saw this new truck they had and the frame itself had him hooked to the teeth he sat me down and said I have some money for you in the will do you want that or do you wanna build a killer truck together I said the truck of course. So he ordered that kit and got the donor truck.
The donor came from Texas and I essentially got it to a frame in 2 months good progress. Now we’re kind of at a Stan still to wait for the rest of the kit to show up but until then I would love some help from people that have had these trucks or know more knowledge than me. There’s really just one thing I don’t like about the factory five the height it’s only about 3 inches higher then a stock one and the back seems to sit higher than the front. I want to give the front a bit more lift. Like a good bit more now I know once you start just cranking the spring down it can lift but also it can ruin the ride. So now spindles here’s the problem they don’t make straight spindles for a 2020 truck that gives it lift so that won’t work. Is there any ideas that you guys have? Maybe a custom lift spindle or trying a different year model one. Idk if I could get just a couple more inches out of this truck I think it would look so much better.
I have been obsessed with pre runners ever since I went to a little highschool meet up with a couple of buddies and saw some trucks jumping a little jump we built I knew I needed to build one myself but as a lot of you know it gets to 6 figures very very quickly and I was still in highschool so I did what kids do bought a POS truck and did my best to get it somewhat to ride nice…. First problem truck as junk missing parts that were important if you were off roading not so much if it was a street driving truck. I had that one bent the frame pretty much totaled it. So I sold it basically for scrape the 20k total I had in the truck had to get rid of for about 5k…
So now what well my grandpa had a factory five cobra and saw this new truck they had and the frame itself had him hooked to the teeth he sat me down and said I have some money for you in the will do you want that or do you wanna build a killer truck together I said the truck of course. So he ordered that kit and got the donor truck.
The donor came from Texas and I essentially got it to a frame in 2 months good progress. Now we’re kind of at a Stan still to wait for the rest of the kit to show up but until then I would love some help from people that have had these trucks or know more knowledge than me. There’s really just one thing I don’t like about the factory five the height it’s only about 3 inches higher then a stock one and the back seems to sit higher than the front. I want to give the front a bit more lift. Like a good bit more now I know once you start just cranking the spring down it can lift but also it can ruin the ride. So now spindles here’s the problem they don’t make straight spindles for a 2020 truck that gives it lift so that won’t work. Is there any ideas that you guys have? Maybe a custom lift spindle or trying a different year model one. Idk if I could get just a couple more inches out of this truck I think it would look so much better.