diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5d08b31da..fce6fa5d5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Added
+- Change LRUDiskCache to allow subclasses to override functionality
 - Create new optional request option for customizing local cache behavior
 - Allow passing request config to VBase's getJSON method
 
diff --git a/src/caches/LRUDiskCache.ts b/src/caches/LRUDiskCache.ts
index 63ae7fd79..c55873066 100644
--- a/src/caches/LRUDiskCache.ts
+++ b/src/caches/LRUDiskCache.ts
@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@ import { outputJSON, readJSON, remove } from 'fs-extra'
 import LRU from 'lru-cache'
 import { join } from 'path'
 import ReadWriteLock from 'rwlock'
+import { LocalCacheOptions } from '../HttpClient'
+
+export type LRUData = Record<string, unknown> & { timeOfDeath: number }
 
 export class LRUDiskCache<V> implements CacheLayer<string, V>{
 
+  protected disposed: number
+  protected hits = 0
+  protected total = 0
   private lock: ReadWriteLock
-  private disposed: number
-  private hits = 0
-  private total = 0
-  private lruStorage: LRU<string, number>
+  private lruStorage: LRU<string, LRUData>
   private keyToBeDeleted: string
 
   constructor(private cachePath: string, options: LRUDiskCacheOptions, private readFile=readJSON, private writeFile=outputJSON) {
@@ -33,11 +36,13 @@ export class LRUDiskCache<V> implements CacheLayer<string, V>{
       noDisposeOnSet: true,
     }
 
-    this.lruStorage = new LRU<string, number>(lruOptions)
+    this.lruStorage = new LRU<string, LRUData>(lruOptions)
 
   }
 
-  public has = (key: string): boolean => this.lruStorage.has(key)
+  public has (key: string): boolean {
+    return this.lruStorage.has(key)
+  } 
 
   public getStats = (name='disk-lru-cache'): LRUStats => {
     const stats = {
@@ -56,10 +61,10 @@ export class LRUDiskCache<V> implements CacheLayer<string, V>{
     return stats
   }
 
-  public get = async (key: string): Promise<V | void>  => {
-    const timeOfDeath = this.lruStorage.get(key)
+  public async get (key: string): Promise<V | void> {
+    const lruData = this.lruStorage.get(key)
     this.total += 1
-    if (timeOfDeath === undefined) {
+    if (lruData === undefined) {
 
       // if it is an outdated file when stale=false
       if (this.keyToBeDeleted) {
@@ -85,7 +90,7 @@ export class LRUDiskCache<V> implements CacheLayer<string, V>{
     })
 
     // if it is an outdated file when stale=true
-    if (timeOfDeath < Date.now()) {
+    if (lruData.timeOfDeath < Date.now()) {
       this.lruStorage.del(key)
       await this.deleteFile(key)
     }
@@ -93,15 +98,10 @@ export class LRUDiskCache<V> implements CacheLayer<string, V>{
     return data
   }
 
-  public set = async (key: string, value: V, maxAge?: number): Promise<boolean> => {
-    let timeOfDeath = NaN
-    if (maxAge) {
-      timeOfDeath = maxAge + Date.now()
-      this.lruStorage.set(key, timeOfDeath, maxAge)
-    }
-    else {
-      this.lruStorage.set(key, NaN)
-    }
+  public async set (key: string, value: V, maxAge?: number, localCacheOptions?: LocalCacheOptions): Promise<boolean> {
+    const timeOfDeath = maxAge ? maxAge + Date.now() : NaN
+    const lruData = this.buildLRUData(timeOfDeath, localCacheOptions)
+    this.lruStorage.set(key, lruData, maxAge ? maxAge : undefined)
 
     if (this.keyToBeDeleted && this.keyToBeDeleted !== key) {
       await this.deleteFile(this.keyToBeDeleted)
@@ -124,6 +124,19 @@ export class LRUDiskCache<V> implements CacheLayer<string, V>{
     return !failure
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Builds the data object that will be stored at the LRU memory storage.
+   * Subclasses that need to store more than just the time of death should
+   * override this.
+   */
+  protected buildLRUData(timeOfDeath: number, localCacheOptions?: LocalCacheOptions): LRUData {
+    return { timeOfDeath }
+  }
+
+  protected getLRU() {
+    return this.lruStorage
+  }
+
   private getPathKey = (key: string): string => {
     return join(this.cachePath, key)
   }