BIGFOOT #8 Testing from 1989 - Jim Kramer - BIGFOOT 4x4, Inc. 

Steve hell yeah!

Haha

Yes it is! Now I wanna see more!

Ford Fan01 they do, it’s a new truck but it has the original 74 f-250 body style that’s fiberglass

Bigfoot 6 was the first Bigfoot I saw in person and my favorite.

Its still unsurpassed in technology. With todays shock technology and the cantilever suspension design these trucks could go even bigger than they do now.

you really think so? Whats the advantage to this design? It sure looked like it absorbed them small jumps well.

@@LCM1956 More suspension travel, especially with today's shock technology. BF 11 had three feet of rear travel in 1993 -- I'd imagine today it would get four or more. I think the downside is it might be less stable, at least on the front, but I assume this could be fixed by modifying the sway bars. And with today's trucks being mostly made for freestyle, it wouldn't work so well because it's a softer ride. But for racing, it seems like it would be the way to go for obstacle courses.

I think it was banned for 6 months or something like that.

Yep

Looked like zf axles they still use.

Partly for noise and partly for torque, some believed that the back pressure could boost torque, if built properly. I know gravedigger also used mufflers for a while, till they started building for RPM and raw power. He (Dennis Anderson) said the mufflers boosted response, usually caused by a boost on torque, in the lower to mid range of the power band

Gene Patterson told me it was part of a sponsorship deal. I forget who the company was. They sounded great, much better than trucks without them.

I agree they stopped being "real" trucks since, but it was a safety matter. Before, all the energy from the jumps and landings went directly to the driver. But I also prefer the old ones based in real frames and bodies, lots of brand identity back then...

Taurus bigfoot and equalizer both did don't forget that

Brett Sharbono i think they didn’t develop it any further because newer conventional straight up and down gas shock designs came out in the mid 90s and they gave about the same travel as they did here. So they figured they didn’t need it anymore

They improved the design for #9. But as Garrett said, it was made obsolete with straight shocks. However, I believe modern shocks combined with a cantilever setup would allow for insane amounts of travel, maybe 4 feet or more. I guess it got to the point where they decided they didn't need more travel. But today's trucks are mostly made with freestyle in mind, and I think it would be too soft.

You probably already found it, but in case you haven't, look for "Battle of the Bigfoots", it features a segment about the development/testing of Bigfoot 8.

Mr. EverythingRandom it crawled all over the comp, and Bigfoot has its own category.

If they had suspension like this in the beginning, they wouldn't have had a need to go to 66s.

Jason1Pa I was thinking the same thing. The driver is actually going to get injured by that door bar in roll over. Moving the driver to the center and adding a HANS was a huge jump in safety!

@@TERRORoftheLORD No one was ever hurt in these BF trucks, and they wrecked quite a bit.