At Fabtech Motorsports, work in the prototype department begins before dawn in a secluded part of the facility. It keeps the engineers away from the daily grind of being one of the largest suspension companies in the world, and it ensures that unless you're invited into the R&D skunk works, you're not going to catch a sneak preview of anything that's being developed.
Without question the hottest new lift kit of the year will be for the '05 coil-sprung Super Duty trucks, and we knew from the moment Ford showed us the new truck that the serious players were going to be scrambling all winter to develop new lifts for one of the most popular 4x4s in the market. When Fabtech gave us a call to tell us it had some trick new stuff planned for its kit, we expected something big. We just had no idea how big the final product would be.
To suit every Super Duty owner (and Super Duty wallet), Fabtech showed us its plans to offer a new Super Duty suspension in three stages with multiple shock options. The big news is the coilover shock and four-link conversion. Last year the 211/42-inch Dirt Logic shock would have been enough to set this kit apart from everything else on the market. To make sure that it trumped every other competitor in the industry, Fabtech went all out and designed its own 4-inch coilover shock option for the ultimate Super Duty front suspension. From the moment we saw it, we knew you'd want it.