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lowey:
Does anybody know
1) how the Gone2far suspension affects vehicle handling on tarmac?
2) How insurance companies will assess a conversion & load the premium on it?

datalas:
I would imagine (and this is purely a guess)

1)  Quite badly,  I would have thought,  not so much for the dislocation element, but for the fact that the springs and shocks are deliberately soft to increase articulation.  This is, ironically the exact opposite of tarmac driving where you want less articulation and stiffer springs.

2) I would imagine that 99.9% of insurance companies wouldn't touch you with someone elses bargepole, then again that's true of *most* suspension modifications.  I would guess that the more reasonably insurance companies, or at least the ones that "understand" vehicles would be reasonably accomodating, although for such an "extreme" modification they might ask politely for an engineers report.  That said, they might not, although it might not be a bad idea to get one anyhow :)

Eeyore:
Any three link front end will have SERIOUS detriment on your handling on the road. I belive in the U.S. three link front ends have a mandatory max road speed of 40mph, such is there belief in the system. Yes, they do provide some rocking great travel, but at a penalty.

IMHO, if you must go for extreme suspension travel, dislocation provides a much safer mechanism (not withstanding the really soft springs that folk often use)  - now whether you beleive dislocation is of any benefit isn't a discussion I'm getting into to (needless to say it's been covered in other threads), I'm just saying it isn't a bad for road manners!

Another tuppence into the pot!
cheers
 8)
Eeyore

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