The suspension on your vehicle determines how well your vehicle flexes and moves when you are off-road. Suspensions can be soft or hard and can even lift your vehicle higher off the ground. A good suspension system will improve your off-road performance while maintaining a quality highway ride.
Many manufacturers of lift kits claim to improve the off road ability of a vehicle by simply lifting it to clear bigger tires. While this method does help in some areas such as approach and departure angles, break over angles and axle clearance, it raises the center of gravity.
The approach angle is the measure of incline that a vehicle can approach without running the bumper into the incline. Steeper approach angles allow a vehicle to get the tires to the rock or embankment and thus climb over it, instead of running into it.
The departure angle is the same concept as the approach angle only at the rear of the vehicle. Having a vehicle with a steep departure angle allows you to depart from rocks that are large and/or steep.
The break over clearance is the clearance that a vehicle has under the center section or belly. The higher the break over clearance the less likely a vehicle is to become high centered. Break over clearance is one of the most important off road factors, but is often the most neglected.
Axle clearance is the measurement from the lowest point on the axle, usually the differential, and the ground.
The center of gravity is the center position of balance for a vehicle, or the average location of the vehicle weight. A low center of gravity allows a vehicle to not only side hill well, but increases the angle that a vehicle can climb and descend.
The goal at TeraFlex is to take every aspect of vehicle modification, including the center of gravity, into consideration to really design a suspension system that will perform off road and on-road.
TeraFlex uses a lizard as its suspension mascot. Why? Because they are the perfect rockcrawling creature. Their legs aren’t forward but are out to the sides; this keeps their bodies, and center of gravity, close to the ground. Their LCG enables them to scurry around on the steepest rocks- without rolling over. Your vehicle follows the same laws of physics.
TeraFlex features a LCG Suspension system that has been designed to be upgradable in stages for each customer to build as they have the time or money. LCG stands for Low Center of Gravity. The LCG suspension system is the most advanced and complete system available by addressing all off road factors and maximizing the needed performance areas to make a fully functional system with no limitations. It maximizes suspension travel, ground clearance and overall performance. Because we focus on performance and agility instead of hype you get a system that is technically engineered for the extreme daily driver, not just lifted to look good. The LCG is truly the most innovative and versatile suspension system ever developed.
TeraFlex has suspension systems available for the YJ Wrangler, TJ Wrangler, JK Wrangler, XJ Cherokee, ZJ/WJ/WK Grand Cherokee, XK Commander, and KJ Liberty.
