How does the Hotchkis kit compare to the Roush one?

 

The Roush just uses an unloaded rear spring and some drop coils and that is why you lose you load rating, but is does come with Bilstein shocks for a good price, but it is still not a stiff as the Hotchkis.

 

In that case I may have to bite the bullet and get the Hotchkis leafs, front coils, and in the near future its sway bars, Ruslow panhard bar, etc etc...

 

A.) Sorry, can't answer, never had this set-up.
G.) Come to think of it, can't really answer this either, since the Hotckis coils are too soft for my taste, I have Ruslow's 1100# coils, and they are still too soft, going to cut them and try to make 1300#ers out of them. So, on a comfort scale, with stock being 5, my truck is about 2. Shooting for 1, though.

 

I am running the Hotchkis rear leafs as well on my 2000 and the additional spring rate simply over powers the factory shocks. I added a set of Eldebrock IAS shocks to the rear and it rides way better. The Eldebrock shocks really dampened the ride back down and I am really impressed with them.

 

Hankfan - Is that all you have done to the rear is the hotchkis springs and edelbrock shocks? Looks like yours is a little lower in the rear than what just the hotchkis setup provides.

Anyone else run the IAS shocks? Better or worse than the QA1s?
I know alot of you use the QA1s so I may have just answered my own question.

 

Nope I have Eibach springs in the front with Hotchkis leafs and 2" shackles in the rear.

 

It's not even a fair fight. The QA1's are adjustable. No relying on the shock manufacturer's valving choice. And you can bump the shocks way up for road racing or up in the front and down in the rear for weight transfer at the drags.

Adjusting the ***** takes all of 60 seconds for all four. Yesterday at Willow Springs I was on the starting grid and saw the one-minute warning. Just then I realized that I had forgotten to bump them up. Jumped out (with helment on), adjusted all four up 2 clicks, jumped back in, belted up, and was ready to go when we got the green flag. The only thing better than that would be cab-adjustable.

 

 

Hankfan, i have Eibach's in front and just 2" shackles in the rear presently and i still don't like the rake. It sounds like the Hotchis 2" with my shackles would do the trick. What year is your truck and are your Eibach's # 3576.520???

 

So can you adjust the QA1s enough to give you a near stock ride from the hotchkis?

Also what setting do you QA1 guys use on the street?

Anyone else care to comment on my 1-10 scale?

 

LOL, I forget all the time to adjust my rear's at the track. Most the time I remember on the drive back home
I run them at 6 on the street

 

I run 7-8 in the rear and set the driver front at 6, passenger 5.

 

Ditto on that.

As far as the ride quality, it will get noticably stiffer. Depending on the settings of the QA1 in can be good to very bouncy.

No.

On your scale I'd say the hotchkis kit with QA1's (8 front, 6 rear) would rank about 8 on your scale.

 

Man these QA1s sound like extremely quality units! I want them! Where would I look for the cheapest place to find them?