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Hotchkis Suspension and Handling Products

 

The experience of John Hotchkis and the entire Hotchkis Sport Suspension team ensures that you receive high quality products, engineered to perform, and designed to be strong. Hotchkis sport suspension controls many of the fastest street cars in the country. Numerous road racing, drag racing and autocross racing teams rely and win with Hotchkis Sport Suspension products.

For discriminating drivers who demand the best, the Hotchkis Sport Suspension engineering group has developed vastly improved suspension systems that dramatically increase the pleasure of your street or track driving experience. Serious drivers understand the benefits of a properly engineered aftermarket suspension include increased stability, improved handling, and maneuverability. Hotchkis suspension packages give you a comfortable ride as well.

Hotchkis Sport Suspension draws upon over 30 years of racing experience to develop the most effective bolt-on suspension systems available.  Our suspension packages have been engineered to deliver the race-winning performance you demand while remaining comfortable enough for use on the street. Hotchkis offers a variety of products, including sway bars, strut braces, control arms, lowering springs, trailing arms, shocks, leaf springs, sub frame connectors, coilovers, panhard rods and more.

All Hotchkis suspension components go through an extensive development process that starts with the latest in computer-aided design, modeling, and engineering and ends with real world performance testing.  Every Hotchkis component undergoes testing on the Hotchkis 600 ft. slalom, 200 ft. skid pad, and 14-turn Autocross course. Results from the ¼ mile acceleration and 60 to 0 mph braking tests are compiled. Complete data for stock and Hotchkis Sport Suspension equipped vehicles is gathered and evaluated. Performance gains are documented and any component not meeting Hotchkis engineer’s rigid standards of fit and performance are critiqued, redesigned, and retested.

Today’s vehicles are designed and engineered with extremely tight tolerances. Our engineer’s measure and then design with state-of-the-art CAD systems to ensure that Hotchkis suspension upgrades operate in their intended locations away from existing suspension and exhaust components. We strive to produce performance suspension that installs with little or no vehicle modifications.

Not only are Hotchkis Sport Suspension components engineered to fit properly, they are finished in appropriate great looking durable finishes including gloss powdercoating bright polish, colorful anodizing, silver zinc and gold cad. plating. We understand that Hotchkis customers are not only concerned with improved handling; they are also fanatics about excellent looking suspension products.

The Hotchkis Total Vehicle System (TVS) is a complete handling solution for your vehicle.  Available as a Stage 1 or Stage 2 package, Hotchkis TVS kits are designed to deliver the maximum handling from your ride and make choosing the right parts for the job a breeze.  No more mixing and matching parts – with a TVS suspension package every component is designed to complement the others and will work right the first time.  These tuned suspension packages eliminate the poor ride quality and disappointing handling that often results from the use of mismatched components from multiple manufacturers.


Suspension & Chassis » Lift Kits and Lift Springs

Suspension Lift Kits, Leveling Kits, Spacer Lift Kits and Body Lift Kits

 

What are the different types of lift kits?

There are three (3) different types of lift kits: suspension lift kits, leveling kits (also called spacer lift kits), and body lift kits. All three will allow you to install taller tires, but not all three offer the same level of performance or ride comfort.

Suspension lift kits are the best options for lifting your vehicle. These kits are designed and manufactured with components to help adjust your OEM parts to the different geometry that is used by the suspension lift kit.

Leveling kits (spacer lift kits) use spring spacers with and without shocks to “level” your vehicle and give it some extra height. Most of these options provide a 1” to 3” height gain.

Body lift kits raise the body of your vehicle by adding spacers over the body mount bushings. This type of lift does not affect your ride quality or handling, but offers no performance advantage. However, you do gain height and tire clearance without changing suspension geometry.