King of the Hammers (KOH) wrapped up this weekend, however a small variety of Ford Bronco patrons will quickly be capable to take every part KOH represents dwelling with them. Fox Manufacturing facility Efficiency Car Growth — the Skunkworks division of the shock maker — labored with three-time KOH winner and Fox-sponsored racer Jason Scherer, plus KOH co-founder Dave Cole and suspension magician Mike Kim, to create this, the 2023 Fox Factory PDV Ford Bronco KOH Edition.
Word, Ford threw up a variety of mud at KOH this 12 months making an attempt to repeat its Bronco podium sweep within the Everyman Inventory Problem — and pulled off a 1st-2nd-3rd-place sweep — however Ford has nothing to do with this construct. For many who do not know, what makes KOH particular is that it combines a few of the most intense desert racing with a few of the most intense rock crawling on the earth. Having spent the money and time to get “Hammers” within the title, the KOH Bronco is tuned to do what these Everyman Inventory Problem trucks do in competitors with out giving up street manners.
Naturally, there are Fox 2.5 Efficiency Elite coilovers offering a four-inch elevate between physique and wheel hub. In entrance, they’re bolted to BDS higher management arms that present further power and may handle the extra journey. A JKS steering sleeve upgrades the turning gear to handle forces exerted whereas scrambling by The Hammers. In again, the dampers work with BDS heavy responsibility decrease management arms and an adjustable monitor bar. The elevate and a JKS Max Tire Clearance Package make room for 37-inch BFG KM3 Mud Terrain tires on Imaginative and prescient wheels. Scherer mentioned he selected them as a result of they’re “the lightest tire and wheel combo with the sturdiness and traction that we would like.” Capping the underside, because it had been, is a sequence of JKS skid plates that run from entrance bumper to again. These bumpers come from Scherer’s Rage 4th Racing store, the entrance high-clearance unit mounting a winch and a few lights. Customized Hammer graphics, fender badges, and embroidered upholstery full the package deal.
Final July, Scherer went to the Johnson OHV space the place the Hammers is run with Mike Kim — who has tuned Fox shocks for a number of KOH- and Baja-winning rigs — to get every part dialed in. They labored their technique to the ultimate model with repeated shock disassembly and swapping elements across the shocks to get the most effective response on every part from fireplace roads to boulder fields to highways. “You miss it, you miss it, you miss it, after which it’s magical,” Scherer mentioned.
Fox did not point out a base Bronco mannequin, however the photographs and the Fox components finder software counsel there’s room to decide on quite a lot of choices. On the components finder, Bronco substitute shocks will be bought for fashions with and with out the Sasquatch Package deal, and for 2 or four-door trims.
The corporate says it’ll construct an “extraordinarily restricted quantity” of the Hammers Version Bronco, promoting them by collaborating Ford dealers. Each will probably be constructed to order at a value that hasn’t been divulged, and include a 3-year/36,000-mile warranty. Whereas we look forward to extra infor, these can elevate their digital palms at the KOH Bronco site.
