Hi-Desert Motorsports Builds & Shock work

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Hey everyone! I figured I should really post more on what I have the opportunity to work on! What better place than here lol! Ill do my best to post updates on everything from time to time, but the last 6 months have been an absolute whirlwind of incredible opportunities to hone my crafts and I couldn't be more excited about it! I am always as transparent as I can be, I am FAR from the best out there, But I always tell our customers I will do my best and stand behind my work. That being said here's a few things that we have been working on this past month or two. There has been a TON of other things we have worked on that I have still yet to post, I Will hopefully get around to that in the future. If you wanna see more work check out our instagram @Hi_Desert_Motorsports!


First up is a terrible photo of something I have been wanting to design for a while for the 4th Gen SUV's No more blowing stock shock mounts apart! New plate upper shock mounts and upper arm mounts with an integrated tube gusset and bypass mount! This one will also get a crossover tube from tower to tower to help mitigate movement of the mounts!


This 5th Gen 4runner came in this past weekend for front fiberglass install, custom seat sliders (will be available soon) that allow you to mount prp seats onto your stock electric sliders, and weld on some nice DirtKing billet limit strap mounts!

Our good friends @juberafab recommended us to a buddy for some shock tuning in Johnson on this SWEET home built ranger! we were able to make some solid progress before the rain came down on us and the motor began running weird. Growing pains of a new build lol.


Another customer brought us his shocks off his new to him 96 ford ranger for a shock rebuild, after taking care of his shocks we somehow suckered him into having us install a TE Designs cage and Giant Motorsports 64 leaf spring kit! this truck is also getting a rear shock upgrade to some 3.0 5 tube race series kings and we are going to move the rear 2.5's to the front of his threat beams! Once shes back together we will also be revalving all 3 sets of shocks and doing a tuning session on this truck to see how she can dance!


This next one is how I KNOW im getting old xD. I finally pulled the trigger on an idea I have had in my head since I started this endeavor into business 3+ years ago. We picked up this 2015 ford transit van to enable us to do MOBILE shock services and to make our shock tuning sessions go much more smoothly! I installed a new toolbox and made up a mount for it in the van and have already put it to work. LOVE IT! For sure going to upgrade more once I recoup from the purchase lol.

Lastly are just a few shock services we have done this week. A set of used kings a customer purchased and wanted freshened up before install! Cleaned these ole things up real good and replaced one shaft that had seen better days. we also added the raised lower spring perches to get the shock away from the steering as it was super close with the lowered perches.

 

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Heres a good before and after on a shock service we did for a customer in the Hi-Desert. Not the worst I have had to service, But just goes to show how much abuse these shocks can take and still come back to life with a little work!

 

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Made this sweet stock dash mount/sandwich plate for the ranger in our shop getting caged. We ended up removing the entire AC ventilation system instead of trying to notch it to retain the stock mounting points. I think we are going to design some 3d printed parts that connect to the stock AC box and allow us to run hoses to the vents instead of the stock monstrosity that lives behind the dash usually. One thing a day.

 

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Right on! The high desert rippers!

 

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Right on! The high desert rippers!

Trying to put us good ole boys on the map! haha

 

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Im REALLY bad at updating social media with work we have been doing . But heres a few things we have been working on!
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Heres a single cab ranger we revalved and tuned recently, Single shock per corner running a 2.5 x 16 IBP coilover up front with SOLID 4.0 shock in the rear on GIANT 64 leafs. by the end of the day we could hold her wide down the whoops next to boone road all the way to the lake bed.

Eduardo's single cab toyota is crusing right along! Decided to do an external B pillar and cage since hes a tall dude! since we had to chop the frame so far forward to delete the old bedcage I decided to just put together his new frame rails, tried not to go crazy on the kick but also wanted to achieve some solid uptravel numbers, all the maters have 1/8' filler pieces between the joints so we can burn them in hot! he also just picked up a nice score for rear shocks, 2.5 16 coilovers and 4.0 18 bypass with 2.5x4" bumps. This truck will be most likely getting converted to beams in the front as well, should be a monster when finished!

Finally got around to finishing up our nephews new upper arm and shock mounts on our old 03 4runner, He ended up blowing the stock shock buckets apart so we came up with this design and threw it together! All 4130 plate and DOM tubing.

Our buddy Brought over his tacoma that had a few upgrades and we threw the ENTIRE total chaos catalogue at it . 3.5' LT kit with every accessory you can imagine with coilover and bypass and bumps up front. For the rear we went withold faithful, deaver f67's witha 2.5 16 king bypass and 2.0 king bumps and our bolt on bedcage that we built for the gold tacoma a few years ago. Had a blast putting this together for him and cant wait to go shock tune this thing!


And heres just a few of the shock services we have been doing. Been a wild year for us, A lot of learning and a TON of work with more still lined up well into 2025. Looking forward to the future!