BDS’s SEMA Build Announced: Project Ranger X
Project Ranger X Its finally time to let the cat out of the bag. We’ve been holding or tongue for months waiting for the approval from Ford to announce our latest build and on the coat tails of their big announcement we’re excited to announce that BDS is building a 2019 Ford Ranger to showcase in the Ford Booth at the 2018 SEMA Show, located in central hall #22200. Dubbed Project Ranger X, this 2019 Ford Ranger is one of only a handful of the new trucks in existence at this point as production doesn’t ramp up until early 2019. This early production version was built special for us as part of Ford’s Project Vehicle Program were we submitted a concept proposal back in February to build an adventure themed offroad capable truck. After months of planning, proposals, CAD modeling and waiting for production we finally took possession of the…
Kevin Stearns Finishes 3rd in the Ultra4 Racing National Championship
Ultra4 Racing is an unlimited, 4-wheel drive, endurance racing challenge that takes place anywhere from the trails of the Hammers, to the barren wasteland of Nevada, to the hills of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Kentucky. These are some of the baddest and toughest races on the planet. We are proud BDS Suspension‘s sponsored driver and owner of Tilden Motorsports, Kevin Stearns, who finished 3rd in this race that was at the Wild West Motorsports Park over the weekend. Kevin raced well in this past weekends race. While there were some set backs in the qualifying race, where Stearns had a hand injury, he was still able to come from the back and finish in 6th. In the main event Stearns, again, had a setback where he lost power steering. Stearns continued to push as hard as possible for 4 laps and it paid off as he was able to manage a…
Pitbull Tires’s SEMA Booth Build by Hauk Designs
Hauk Designs has been hard at work on a 6×6 Dodge Truck that they are building for Pitbull Tires to display in their SEMA booth. This vehicle is getting a ’94-’01 RAM 2500 BDS Long Arm kit in the front and Jeep JK rear long arms in the build up. They have completely tore this thing apart. They took most of the original vehicle off and will not be putting it back on. They kept half the frame and the engine transmission, that’s about it. Now this is a very cool build, but it did not come so easily. One of the biggest challenges that the crew at Hauk Designs had was figuring out that center axle. The crew tried a few different things from using a two piece drive shaft and double transfer cases, but to be able to drive this thing at highway speeds is not easy.…
2018 SEMA Show Is Almost Here!
Its almost that time for sin city, the one and only Las Vegas, NV, to welcome back the automotive aftermarket for the Super Bowl of events. Whether you’re into trucks and offroad, racing, classic cars, imports or exotics, the SEMA Show is a sensory overload as more than 2500 companies set up to showcase their latest and greatest products to more than 75,000 industry professionals in attendance. The show spans the 1 million sq.ft Las Vegas Convention Center and surrounding area to kick off next Tuesday running through Friday. We’d like to invite you to join us in the Sport Truck USA Booth, where you can find BDS Suspension, Zone Offroad, JKS Mfg, and RT Pro. We’ll be set up in our usual spot, booth #30192 of the offroad section along the inside wall of the south hall, upper level. Be sure to stop by to check out all the…
2018 SEMA Preview: BDS’s Newest Project Vehicle
BDS Project X: Over the last couple weeks the BDS Suspension research & development team have been hard at work on the overhaul of the newest vehicle to join the company fleet. Built to be a super capable adventure rig with plenty of gear and supplies, this truck will make its public debut in less than 2 weeks out at the 2018 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. We’re bubbling over with excitement to announce the vehicle and build plans, unfortunately the announcement is under embargo at the moment and we’re waiting for the manufacturer to lift it before we can spill the beans. For now we’d like to give a quick shout out to the companies we partnered with to help make this build possible. Stay tuned for the big announcement in the coming days as we have tons of photos, videos and write ups from the build up that…
Project SD126 Updates…
Just in case you were having withdrawals from Project SD126, the BDS team is back with a fresh video showing off a build recap on this Super Duty along with the latest updates and where you can check out the truck next. Among the notable upgrades since this truck rolled on the stage in Ford’s booth at SEMA the truck received some additional upgrades in the lighting department with custom dual HID headlight units from HIDprojectors.com featuring engraved SD126 projectors and a mean orange glow. Elsewhere around the truck we gave the truck a good once over cleaning and touching up since our desert testing to get it ready for the 2018 show season which starts with the Chicago Auto Show Feb 10-19, 2018. If you can’t make it out to Chicago Auto Show don’t you worry, it’ll be making the rounds at numerous trade shows and events this year,…