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Take your Bronco to the next level with the RPG Mid-Travel kit. This mid-travel kit will utilize a Fox, King, or Icon 2.5 aftermarket coil-over to pull 13+" of wheel travel. By using only the highest quality FK Bearings spherical bearings and rod ends, your pivot points are reliable and smooth through the entire suspension cycle, even under high angles and loads. The world-class in-house engineering that goes into the control arms and tie rods has been proven over the last 10+ years on the Raptor, and has carried over to a '21+ Bronco kit we are proud to stamp our name on. Whether you are looking to go faster in the desert or have more articulation on the trail, the RPG mid-travel kit has you covered.

Technical Specs:

• 3" Wider Per Side (6" wider total)
• 13"+ Wheel Travel
• FOX 2.5 or 3.0, King 2.5, ADS 2.5 or Icon 2.5 OEM Replacement Coilover
• Ability to run 39" tires (37" recommended)
• Option of Black, Fox Orange, King Blue, or Clear Anodize
• Weight- 25 lbs
• Dimensions- 10 X 8 X 8 in

Kit Includes:

• Billet Upper Control Arms
• Billet Full Tie Rod Kit
• Fabricated Lower Control Arms
• Heat-treated extended axle shafts
• All necessary hardware
• Kit requires aftermarket fiberglass (Advanced Fiberglass Concepts 5"/8" Flare or Fiberwerx 6" Bulge), and a 0mm offset wheel is recommended for fender clearance.

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2021+ Ford Bronco +3" Mid Travel Kit

Introducing the 2021+ Ford Bronco +3" Mid Travel kit. The RPG Mid Travel Kit takes your Bronco to a new level of performance, strength, reliability, and comfort. A wider track width and more wheel travel means improved stability, better traction, and increased comfort over any terrain your Bronco leads you to. Solidworks CAD designed from Factory Ford CAD data, you can trust that RPG will provide the most effective mid-travel kit available. Available on backorder Take your Bronco to the next level with the RPG Mid-Travel kit. This mid-travel kit will utilize a Fox, King, or Icon 2.5 aftermarket coil-over to pull 13+” of wheel travel. By using only the highest quality FK Bearings spherical bearings and rod ends, your pivot points are reliable and smooth through the entire suspension cycle, even under high angles and loads. The world-class in-house engineering that goes into the control arms and tie rods has been proven over the last 10+ years on the Raptor, and has carried over to a ’21+ Bronco kit we are proud to stamp our name on. Whether you are looking to go faster in the desert or have more articulation on the trail, the RPG mid-travel kit has you covered.

Technical Specs:

• 3" Wider Per Side (6" wider total)
• Accurate travel numbers coming soon
• Ability to run 39" tires (37" recommended)
• Option of Black, Fox Orange, King Blue, or Clear Anodize

Kit Includes:

• Billet Upper Control Arms
• Billet Full Tie Rod Kit
• Fabricated Lower Control Arms
• Heat-treated extended axle shafts
• All necessary hardware

*Kit requires aftermarket fiberglass (Advanced Fiberglass Concepts 5"/8" Flare or Fiberwerx 6" Bulge), and a 0mm offset wheel is recommended for fender clearance.

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RPG Off-Road Mid Travel Kit +3" Ford Bronco 2021-2023

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• 3" Wider Per Side (6" wider total)
• Accurate travel numbers coming soon.
• Ability to run 39" tires (37" recommended)
• Option of Black, Fox Orange, King Blue, or Clear Anodize
• Billet Upper Control Arms
• Billet Full Tie Rod Kit
• Fabricated Lower Control Arms
• Heat-treated extended axle shafts
• All necessary hardware
• Ford Bronco 3 Door 2021-2023
• Kit requires aftermarket fiberglass (Advanced Fiberglass Concepts 5"/8" Flare or Fiberwerx 6" Bulge), and a 0mm offset wheel is recommended for fender clearance.

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RPG Offroad was created with one simple goal in mind, and that is to advance the Raptor and F-150 platform to new heights. RPG has teamed up with the best of the best in the Off-road industry to bring Ford F-150, Raptor, Ranger, and Bronco owners the absolute toughest and safest off-road suspension performance upgrades on the planet. When you are designing components that will exceed normal factory operating limits on a routine basis, you better have some stellar engineering capabilities and your components better be precision crafted using modern-day CAD technology, robotic welding and CNC crafted parts.  RPG lives breathe and sleep engineering to bring you the most durable and safest parts for your truck. You demand the best and with over a decade of experience and racing wins under our belt, we deliver.

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RPG Offroad is proud to offer its new line of performance front and rear suspension components. Take, for example, the BOLT KIT: Bolt-On Long Travel. Total comfort and control RPG Style.  Jumps and whoops that were formerly spine shattering on trucks that were stock or modified with single Fox 3.0” coil-overs are now buttery smooth launching pads. The kit brings together precision-crafted components that are engineered and tuned to work in harmony towards one common goal: Dominate every obstacle. We achieved this with increased dampening power, unsurpassed strength in construction, and fine-tuning the entire package to perfection. By starting from scratch on the front suspension, we were able to eliminate weak points and push the Raptor’s capability to a completely different realm of performance. Ready to climb to the pinnacle of Raptor performance? The BOLT kit is available now!

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RPG 21+ Bronco +3" Mid Travel Suspension Kit

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Take your Bronco to the next level with the RPG Mid-Travel kit. This mid-travel kit will utilize a Fox, King, or Icon 2.5 aftermarket coil-over to pull 13+” of wheel travel. By using only the highest quality FK Bearings spherical bearings and rod ends, your pivot points are reliable and smooth through the entire suspension cycle, even under high angles and loads. The world-class in-house engineering that goes into the control arms and tie rods has been proven over the last 10+ years on the Raptor, and has carried over to a ’21+ Bronco kit we are proud to stamp our name on. Whether you are looking to go faster in the desert or have more articulation on the trail, the RPG mid-travel kit has you covered.

Technical Specs:

• 3″ Wider Per Side (6″ wider total)
• Accurate travel numbers coming soon.
• Ability to run 39″ tires (37″ recommended)
• Option of Black, Fox Orange, King Blue, or Clear Anodize

Kit Includes:

• Billet Upper Control Arms
• Billet Full Tie Rod Kit
• Fabricated Lower Control Arms 
• Heat-treated extended axle shafts
• All necessary hardware

*Kit requires aftermarket fiberglass (Advanced Fiberglass Concepts 5″/8″ Flare or Fiberwerx 6″ Bulge), and a 0mm offset wheel is recommended for fender clearance.

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Ford Raptor Mid-Travel Kit

The all new HRD Mid-Travel kit is the highest performing kit on the market. From build quality to performance, this kit is built to the highest standards. 

• +3" wider track width per side
• 15" Wheel Travel
• Retains full factory steering angle
• 1" outter steering heim

Included in the kit:

• Upper Control Arms (Fabricatied or Billet)
• Lower Control Arms
• Billet tie-rods
• Secondary Shock Tower
• RCV IWE Deletes
• RCV extended axle shafts
• Extended brake lines
• Hardware Kit

PRODUCT INFO

• 15" of wheel travel.
• 3" wider per side.
• 100% factory steering angle and ackerman for optimal on and offroad handling.

These Kits are built to order with a 1-2 month lead time.

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GEN 2   SVC Mid-Travel Kit Worth it???

• Thread starter t4arghhh
• Start date Aug 21, 2020

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• Aug 21, 2020

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Thinking about which direction to go for the Raptor. It's a 2019 with live-valve but i dont mind capping the valves off in exchange for a better setup. Purpose: 50% daily, 50% weekend warrior. Terrain: Johnson Valley, Mojave, Pismo/Glamis dunes. I push her pretty hard on the dirt roads and while i'm not doing the Baja 1000 anytime soon, I don't like to put myself in situations where i WISH i had something that I don't. Given said that, Choice 1: SVC Mid travel kit: I view this as an all-inclusive kit since it comes with beefier coilovers with secondaries up front, axles, LCA, UCA, spindle gussets, hydro rears, leafback, tie rods, etc. Choice 2: Another equivalent with Kings? Let me know what else is out there before i drop $16k on this sucker! haha  

• Aug 22, 2020

I think you need fenders with mid travel and also through the bed long travel rear shocks, bed sides etc for a balanced suspension 16k$ is not enough  

Peterb said: I think you need fenders with mid travel and also through the bed long travel rear shocks, bed sides etc for a balanced suspension 16k$ is not enough Click to expand...

BigGriff023

I daily drive mine and have never looked back. The only thing that will slow you down is the fact that you don’t have a cage and wont want to out drive the rest of the truck. I’m paired with SVC’s rear bypass cage and Fox 3.5 bypasses through the bed/Deavers etc.  

BigGriff023 said: I daily drive mine and have never looked back. The only thing that will slow you down is the fact that you don’t have a cage and wont want to out drive the rest of the truck. I’m paired with SVC’s rear bypass cage and Fox 3.5 bypasses through the bed/Deavers etc. Click to expand...

• Aug 23, 2020

I would pull up Zombiekiller’s write up on his truck. He has one of the more modded Gen 2s and has an interesting take on if he had to do it all over again.....  

Professional basket weaver level 7

Let see that bad boy! What was the OTD cost? I’m guessing about $25k?  

I just priced the rear bedcage, shocks 3.5, $10k with labour, the front mid travel makes you 6” wider I believe, so then you need to match the rear at least with spacers or something and bedsides, mid travel front at what $15k needs labour too which would be significant, kickass set up but maybe $35k all in  

Zeusmotorworks

Semi-retired, now just a happy grumpy old man.

You sure Foxes live valve upgrade/Deavers/bumps would not be enough. Seriously, if you really are going to spend that much time on the street?  

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SVC Offroad Mid Travel Kit - Gen 3 Ford Raptor / Raptor R

• 17" of Wheel Travel
• Minimal Welding Required
• Retains Factory Coil-bucket For Greater Strength
• Work For Both Raptor and Raptor R.
• Maintains Factory Electric IWE's
• 300M Factory Diameter Axles

  What you get

• SVC  Billet UCA
• SVC Upright
• SVC Tie Rods
• SVC Shockmount
• SVC Top-hat
• Stainless Steel Brake Lines
• Fox Or King 3.5" Bypass Shock
• Fox Or King 2.5" Coil-Over
• Custom Springs
• RCV IWE Delete
• Shanked Grade 8 Hardware

OVERVIEW: SVC Offroad's 2021+ Ford Raptor Gen 3 Mid Travel Kit offers you long travel performance without the headaches of going full long travel.   We've taken what we liked about our dual shock LCA setup and upped the ante to provide Raptor owners a bolt on kit that allows superior damping control, additional ride height and ground clearance without sacrificing one bit of daily driver duties. 

We've designed our Mid Travel Kit using the latest in C.A.D. technology to ensure the absolute best suspension geometry possible and coupled it with thousands of miles real-world testing to dial in shock valving and proper springs rates.  We're 100% confident we have developed a kit that is unparalleled in performance, at a price that is hundreds, if not thousands less than other kits on the market.  So why don't we call our kits long travel like all the other systems on the market, because non of them are long travel in our eyes.  We are all using the same pivot locations, the same steering locations and we are all roughly 3 inches wider per side over a factory Raptor.  The minute you try to squeze and extra inch with to long of a shock, your steering geometry goes out the window and bump steer becomes a massive issue.  

Sleep easy, if you choose to go with SVC, you will have the same travel numbers as the rest of the kits out their without sacrificing the critical geometry of the vehicle.  

NOTE: ALL GEN 3 MIDTRAVEL KITS WILL COME WITH OUR NEW BILLET UPPER CONTROL ARM AS SHOWN IN MAIN PIC

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Omsk: Western Siberia's hidden gem

A city view of Omsk. Source: Dmitry Feoktistov

Omsk was founded in 1716 when a wooden fort was constructed to house a Cossack unit in the area to protect the expanding Russian frontier from Central Asian nomadic incursions. It served various administrative functions throughout the 1800s and became infamous as a place of exile and incarceration. The city was rundown when selected as a hub for the Trans-Siberian railway in the 1890s. Many international trade companies and foreign consulates relocated here and the remnants of their offices can still be found in the city today.

The mystery of Kolchak’s gold

Omsk became the headquarters of the anti-Bolshevik white army led by Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in 1918. In late 1918 there was a revolt in the city initiated by a leftist faction (Socialist Revolutionary Party or SPs) with 500 rebel deaths at the hands of Cossacks and Czechoslovak soldiers, a major factor in convincing the SPs to join the Bolsheviks. There is a large Soviet-era monument to the uprising at the corner of Lenina street and Broz Tito street.  

Kolchak was entrusted with a large portion of the Tsarist’s gold reserves, yet amazingly lost much of it. Supposedly 250 million rubles were lost (about $8 million at the time). Legend has it that they were buried near the village of Taiga, yet numerous excavations have turned up nothing. The area still attracts the occasional fortune seeker.

Kolchak’s headquarters are located at what is today the  Omsk Regional Archives  at Broz Tito St., 3. Nothing shows how much times have changed as the imposing Kolchak statue that was unveiled in 2012 around the corner. The statue guards  Kolchak restaurant , a four-story culinary complex featuring a steak house, an Irish pub, a Central Asian café and an Italian eatery.  For more details on where and how to dig Kolchak's gold, see  Top Ten Mysterious Lost Treasures of Russia

Dostoevsky and the Tsar

At 1.15 million people Omsk dwarfs the region’s second largest city, Tara (population 28,000). The city is split by the River Irtysh into two sections (all places of interest are on the right bank) with downtown emanating from the River Om.

Most foreigners have heard of Omsk via writer Fyodor Dostoevsky who spent four years here as a prisoner (1849-1853). He spent most of his time in Omsk in squalor and chains and with no books besides the Bible, however, it left an indelible mark on his memory and influenced his future literary output. There is a statue of the writer in chains grasping a Bible at the corner of Partizanskaya and Spartakovskaya streets, where Dostoevsky undoubtedly stepped many times. A  museum dedicated to the author's time in Omsk  is located nearby at Dostoevskogo St. 1. The local university is also named for him.

A view of the Assumption Cathedral, Omsk. Source: Lori/Legion-Media

Tarskaya Street is one of the city’s oldest thoroughfares. It features a monument to victims of Stalinist repressions and the Tara gates, originally built in 1792 as one of the four entrances to the Omsk fort. Nearby stands the Assumption Cathedral, one of the largest churches in Siberia. Future Tsar Nicholas II laid the first stone here in 1891 when making his way back to St. Petersburg after his Eastern journey.

In Omsk you are never more than a few steps from the village, made clear when one exits the center to the north, where most houses are wooden and roads unpaved. Stroll along Bulatova and Rabinovicha streets, a well-preserved ensemble of wooden architecture.

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The Pushkin State Library is worth a look with busts of Russian literary figures adorning the front side of the building. At the corner under the big “M” is one of several stations of the never completed Omsk metro. Construction began in 1992, but as of 2014 the project is again dormant due to financing problems.

One of Omsk’s most famous sons is Symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910). Vrubel ignored contemporary trends and focused on themes from fairy tales, demons and religious subjects and also designed a majolica frieze for the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. Omsk’s Fine Arts Museum is named for him and features a number of  his works .

Milhail Vrubel's painting 'Demon Seated in a Garden' (1890)

Over the years a number of tourists have tripped over the monument to Stepanych. This bust of a plumber rising from a sewer was the idea of Omsk’s former mayor after a trip to Slovakia in the 1990s. Stepanych has become one of the symbols of the city.

Omsk is a hockey town, with one of the major teams,  Avangard , in the KHL, Russia’s premiere professional league. Russian champions on several occasions, check out a match at Omsk Arena. But if you can’t catch a game there’s a large kiosk featuring the team’s merchandise at the airport.

Siberian   punk, jazz and the classics

While Omsk may not be on everyone’s radar musically, it does host a  musical theater  built just after the war. The building on 10 Let Oktyabrya Street is in the form of an enormous sloping grand piano.

A monument to Stepanych, Lenina Street, Omsk. Photo credit: RIA Novosti/Pavel Lisitsyn 

Perhaps Russia’s most famous punk band,  Grazhdanskaya oborona  (Civil Defence), was formed here in 1982. The band was active until 2008 when lead singer Yegor Letov died of heart failure at age 43. Letov is buried at the Staro-Vostochnoe cemetery. A sprawling graveyard with thousands of graves, fans should stop at the administration for help in locating his grave.

In Russia, Omsk is known among the younger, tech-savvy generation primarily because of the “Omsk bird,” also known as Winged Doom. The origin of what became one of Russia’s most ubiquitous memes comes from a painting by German artist Heiko  Müller. One day in 2009 an Internet user posted this painting with the line, “Welcome to Omsk,” at the top. Additional versions menace viewers stating, “Don't try to leave Omsk,” and “Omsk is closer than you think.” Like many popular memes on the Internet, this one went viral and has become something like an unofficial symbol of the city.

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