Pimp my ride.....Iraq contractor style

blue3golf · 07-17-06, 02:28 PM

The tires are nothing but regular steel belted goodyear off road tires filled with air. All that homemade armor really does throw off the center of gravity, we rolled a couple of them partly because of that. The weight pushed down so far there was barely any suspension travel. The actual weapon firing or rounds impacting do very little on the "heavy duty" suspensions that are on those stock armored 1114s. The 1025's are the ones to worry about. Accleration is also killed with all that extra weight. When you lose a tire in combat though, mos6t of the time the vehicle is stationary, the few times it happens when your moving the vehicle handles surprisingly well. Need to use more aluminum and space out the layers of armor some to help take the blast.

07-17-06, 02:28 PM	#12
blue3golf Weps Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Traverse City, MI Posts: 352 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The tires are nothing but regular steel belted goodyear off road tires filled with air. All that homemade armor really does throw off the center of gravity, we rolled a couple of them partly because of that. The weight pushed down so far there was barely any suspension travel. The actual weapon firing or rounds impacting do very little on the "heavy duty" suspensions that are on those stock armored 1114s. The 1025's are the ones to worry about. Accleration is also killed with all that extra weight. When you lose a tire in combat though, mos6t of the time the vehicle is stationary, the few times it happens when your moving the vehicle handles surprisingly well. Need to use more aluminum and space out the layers of armor some to help take the blast.