BDS hits the powder at SnoFari 2014
BDS hits the powder at SnoFari 2014 This past weekend BDS hit the highway for a short 3 hour trip up north for the snowy 4wheeling adventure known as SnoFari. With Project KJ in tow, we took our 2013 Ram 3500 dubbed Project Slate up for a weekend of wheeling in the snow cloaked trails around West Branch, MI. Hosted by the Soldiers of Fortune Offroad Club (SoFo) SnoFari brings out roughly 80 rigs for 2 days and nights in the powdery white stuff. This marking the 8th annual event was on the snowier side with plenty of accumulation this winter in Michigan and several inches of fresh powder and single digit temps all weekend long. BDS hit the trails in our ’05 Liberty CRD and took turns carving a path through the 12-30” snow drifts out on the trail. We had a blast wheeling with the group, catching up with old friends and…
BDS’s Project KJ makes it into Crawl Magazine
Many of you have followed along as Project KJ took shape over the last year. What started as a 2nd hand bone stock ’05 Jeep Liberty CRD was transformed last Spring into the unique low slung solid axled Liberty rolling 40s that you see today. We documented every step of the build with photos, videos, and weekly writeups as the BDS R&D team prepped it for a shakedown run on the 7-day, 1000+ mile offroad roadtrip known as Ultimate Adventure. Following that trip, bugs were worked out and its been out wheeling and promoting at shows around the country. During one weekend at nearby Rocks & Valleys Offroad Park in Harrison, MI we met up with John Herrick from Crawl Magazine who jumped at the chance to shoot the Liberty. Along the way John “crawled” behind the wheel (cheesy, I know) of the Liberty CRD for what ended up being…
Camo Cummins | Full Flex Customs
SEMA Trucks: Full Flex Customs Camo Cummins Each year the SEMA Show is flooded with amazing automobiles, lifted trucks, lower street rods, resto-mod classics and late model monsters all in the name of automotive customization. There’s something for everyone’s taste from the insane over-the-top to capable daily drivers. BDS Suspension attends this annual show out in Las Vegas and continues to make quite the statement with show vehicles scattered throughout the show grounds on display in exhibitor booths and featured vehicle spots. If you’ve seen the work that comes out of Full Flex Customs in TX you’ve seen this 2013 Ram 2500, or maybe you haven’t, after all it is wrapped in Realtree camo. Eric Billings, owner of this monster took the original concept and turned this Megacab into a show worthy hunting truck. With hundreds of hours invested, the detail of this truck must be seen in person to…
SEMA Trucks: Todd’s Tundra
SEMA Trucks: Todd’s Tundra Each year the SEMA Show is flooded with amazing automobiles, lifted trucks, lower street rods, resto-mod classics and late model monsters all in the name of automotive customization. There’s something for everyone’s taste from the insanely built and over-the-top to capable daily drivers. BDS Suspension attends this annual show out in Las Vegas and continues to make quite the statement with show vehicles scattered throughout the show grounds on display in exhibitor booths and featured vehicle spots. One of the trucks grabbing attention outside was Todd Headlee’s 2013 Toyota Tundra TRD. Representing Gibson’s Metal Mulisha exhaust line this TRD sports a variety of mods to help it perform out in the open desert terrain around Southern California. Built by Go Big Truck Performance, the stock suspension was replaced with a BDS 7” Performance Series suspension featuring Fox Racing 2.5 remote coilovers up front and rear Fox…
SEMA Trucks: Street 2 Sand’s RAM 3500
SEMA Trucks: Street 2 Sand’s RAM 3500 Each year the SEMA Show is flooded with amazing automobiles, lifted trucks, lower street rods, resto-mod classics and late model monsters all in the name of automotive customization. There’s something for everyone’s taste from the insanely built and over-the-top to capable daily drivers. BDS Suspension attends this annual show out in Las Vegas and continues to make quite the statement with show vehicles scattered throughout the show grounds on display in exhibitor booths and featured vehicle spots. If you’ve been around the SEMA Show in recent years, you’ll know Randy Pratt’s shop Street 2 Sand Off-Road & Performance. Each year they have their hands in a number of builds with their eye for unique styling and attention to detail. 2013 was no different with vehicles spread throughout the show in booths and on display in featured spots. Heck, even the 2013 Ram 3500…
Project Rigs: Jimmy’s Sinister F150
What started as the everyday F150 project, turned into this Raptor inspired Ford dubbed Project Sinister. For owner Jimmy Kruzinski out of Albany, NY the build started before even taking delivery of his 2012 Ford F150. With the truck ordered at his local dealership, Jimmy began doing some research online on available mods to customize his truck to stand out from the crowd. HID headlights, a leveling kit, exhaust were were originally planned, but before he knew it an entire room in his house was filled with parts awaiting the trucks arrival. On arrival, Jimmy’s first stop was to drop the F150 off at a friend’s shop to start installing a parts, from their it went to Capital District Truck Center for a few more upgrades before realizing he’d been bit by as he calls it “the build bug”. That familiar, a times impulsive need to mod out your ride…