kind of considering Portals don't he front and keeping the rear str8. Seems some of the rigs Ive seen with a single portal axle appear to be on the rears.
Anyone offer any info as to the good the bad the ugle of a single portal and differences between it being in Front or Rear?
I'd like to think it's pretty simple.
Straight front/portal rear gives more of a forward weight bias while making the rear less likely to catch an object on the axle or diff. This would probably be a bit more beneficial to a slanted skid chassis.
Portal front with straight rear, though this seems an odd route to take, might be effective where the opposite setup would lack. You would have less of a problem clearing objects up front, but in certain instances the front may have to do a bit more work to drag the rear end off of something if the rear were to get stuck. But also the rear would be more planted. If I ran this setup, I'd probably start with a 70-80mm shock up front with a longer setup in the rear to try to even things out. Or full droop up front with semi droop in rear. I'm not saying it needs to be evened out. That's just my preference if I were to build it with said setup.