You can do amazing tings with just the 2.5's if dialed in perfect. Your in a better position. I had to change springs more then once and had custom valving. So yes if you haven't done a deep dive into that stuff you may be leaving performance on the table. If you go long travel you'll be...
I have drooled over this at Overland Flagstaff for years, great to see it launched and alive in the wild. Those LCA's look like 8 hours of welding each. Users should atleast plan on a stiffer coil spring with all that beautiful leverage.
I live in the mountains and play in Baja. I'd love to have paddle shifters without using a Raptor steering wheel. Sometimes you want to launch out of a corner or anticipate a hill.
We have had vehicles on display (a Bronco one year, and a Sprinter the following year) in the LA Auto Show, in the Overland Display area (Where Dodge used to showcase their stuff). The Hyundai Engineers were all over the Overland vehicles both years I was there. Had a former Motor Trend guy...
Drop shippers always add risk and layers or bureaucracy. The OEM manufacturer has no way of knowing if the end user even ordered the right thing and no real way of doing a refund without taking a loss. On a tight timeline ? Never use a drop shipper. Lesson learned but it should be pretty...
I know folks that have removed the sway bar as those shocks can see and adjust side to side in real time.
Anyways 2 and 3 is super soft. Great for onroad plush. I only need to run 5 or 6 on a fire road but 8 if I want to be aggressive. 10 if your going all out and want to hit all the whoops.
I'm not an Icon guy, but I know folks that love them, and I do drive fast offroad. You want high speed response to be stiff. If in doubt I would have slow and high speed as stiff as you can comfortably manage.
Your question is too nuanced to answer with a definitive number as there are...