Components availability for your Ford F150 Raptor is heading to become like an explosion. As quickly as this SVT truck hits the streets there’s heading to become everyone and his brother searching for components. I’ve been around the telephone searching for components production company’s that’s or is heading to become production even the tiniest of Raptor components. You will find a couple of locations the Raptor that may be upgraded correct off the bat. Components like tires, wheels and brakes could be upgraded with components accessible within the currant following marketplace components that ought to match the Raptor now. We are able to include components like bigger calipers, much better wheels with bead locks, we are able to include bed addresses, BAK will be the supplying vendor for bed addresses for your factory F150′s have bed addresses which will match. you will find plenty of components that may be utilized to personalize your new F150 Raptor. Although there not allot of components manufactures operating on efficiency components up grades for your Raptor because of the price of R&D and the decline in truck sales. But I would bet you that when this Raptor hits the marketplace there will probably be a great deal of catching up to do.
I have talked to Rousch Efficiency engineers about this very thing, Rousch is holding back simply because Ford made some major changes within the Raptor engine management and there currant efficiency components and goodies will not work for your Raptor so its a ground up situation for there components as well. I’m sure they will attack this with all they have once the truck is accessible. There’s one company that’s within the position to supply a efficiency components upgrade which will include approx. 150 hp to the Raptor correct out of the box and we will probably be selling that Raptor system at about the same time the truck will probably be accessible. Raptor suspension is another area that has limited upgrades. As of yet you will find no companies with lift kits around the drawing board reason being Ford has major changes to the suspension and they are waiting to get there hands around the new Raptor, Shocks are an area hard pressed to see up grades, talking to Ross the lead engineer at FOX racing you will find no upgrades that are being looked at simply because Ross designed the system that ran within the BAJA and the Raptor already has the best, maybe later we will see something. He did say that FOX has a new Raptor Style shock upgrade for your standard F150′s which will up grade the F150′s to a Raptor style ride, we will have that quickly.
Another area that we have looked at for upgrade will be the cast lower front control arms, we have a major player in upscale buggy components production that says they can produce billet lower control arms, we will continue to work on that and keep you advised.
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