H3 Pre runner ???

[H3HummerLineX]

Hello all. Just wondering if anyone has built a pre runner daily driver?


Any photos???

 

[Hunner]

I have always wondered about that name.

Mine is a pre-runner only if I am on a trail I have not run.
After that the next time it's a past-runner?

I suppose of course it comes from racers that pre-run a course with a vehicle other than the real race vehicle.
It would make sense to me if it was outfitted just like the second one to test the build.

I run what I brung!

From your signature I think you could qualify as a pre-runner.

 

[rsc]

What makes it a pre-runner? All I know is I see a lot of stingers on the front of the ones called that.

 

[Ghostbuster]

For the "Neva been done befo" crowd.

I think it is usually a 2wd rig with a long travel front suspension.

Here is a colorado with LTS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5NUAI346No

I remember this being talked about awhile ago.

 

[RamRod]

What makes it a pre-runner? All I know is I see a lot of stingers on the front of the ones called that.

Well I think being able to travel at high speed through the desert is the root of the whole pre-runner thing....now I think if you have more then one LED light bar on the front of your rig then it's now a "pre-runner build" lol

I would love to have an area near me to justify building a pre-runner!

 

[06 H3]

Prerunner's is a term used very loosely. Kind of like overlanding. What is overlanding? Some say its extended travel. some consider themselves overlanders camping in tents for a night or two, some believe you need RTT's and have to be gone for a week. I guess both of those terms are very subjective.

In my area prerunners are very common but are not long travel. They are lifted have big fiberglass fenders and are 2wd. To me thats not a prerunner, to me a prerunner doesnt lift at all. They go wide not up, they pull big travel #'s they can be 2 or 4wd but primarily are 2wd. I think the term is used for when a race team preruns the baja 1000 or vegas to reno races and map out the course if there are any bad parts and mark them on the GPS.

I think there are level of prerunners. high end, low end, trailered rigs non trailered. Just like rock crawlers. The suspension tuning on them is simply amazing. The built ones have triple bypass shocks and each end of the shock can be tuned to be stiff or soft depending on where the stroke is throughout its range. These guys that valve and tune are talented. Its crazy they watch a truck hit a set of whoops and can just see how the suspension reacts and know how to adjust it.

The thing I dont like about prerunners is that most of them are 2wd. while you can go fast you cant go far. For me I am not a prerunner but do enjoy high speed wheeling from time to time, I have gotten air borne quite a few times but I dont have the money to really go crazy and put triple bypasses on. They are pricey!

I have seen solid axle rigs do prerunning but IFS is the preferred choice I-beams or A-arms.

For me, I think with enough tuning and money any setup can work well in any terrain. My brothers JK kicked ass in the high speed and it was solid axle and my IFS kicked ass in the rocks (usually its the opposite)

 

[Mb30sdl]

Then I may have prerunner H2:giggle:

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

Well I think being able to travel at high speed through the desert is the root of the whole pre-runner thing....now I think if you have more then one LED light bar on the front of your rig then it's now a "pre-runner build" lol

I would love to have an area near me to justify building a pre-runner!

you commute to work, don't you? my pre-runner is in the shape of a 75 Corvette :mock:

 

[06 H3]

Then I may have prerunner H2:giggle:

Anyone can slap any triple bypass shock on any vehicle, It depends on how they tuned and how the rest of the suspension is set up too