no joking here.....

who makes the kits to lift the big ol nigga cars, impalas, crown vics, caprice, etc?

i know nothing about this facet of the auto market, wouldnt know where to start looking.......

seriously

12/7/2005 9:59:21 AM

i dont know but i know ppl i can ask.

12/7/2005 10:33:23 AM

I'm gonna guess that most of your local lifted rides use simple coil spacers/boosters from the parts store. I'm sure somebody makes an actual kit though

12/7/2005 10:55:14 AM

google didnt turn up anything useful. one promising page gave me 180 search assistant

im guessing spacers also

12/7/2005 10:58:21 AM

are u sure its not a body lift? i dont know shit on this but i am guessing

12/7/2005 11:39:37 AM

are those old sedans coils or leafs?

some had leaf rears right? blocks?

i dont think its a body lift, ive seen a couple lifted caprices with 26s or so with no gap.

12/7/2005 11:41:40 AM

most older GM cars are coils i beleive, same setup as an a-body (cutlass, gto, chevelle, etc)
cars that have leaves are almost always spring under, so blocks wouldn't work

12/7/2005 11:45:30 AM

Reid loves them unibody BLs.

12/7/2005 12:25:35 PM

airshocks will give you a few inches

12/7/2005 1:18:27 PM

the more popular cars (caprices, etc.) have coils all around. most just throw in spacers or custom wound taller coils. some of the more radical/really tall ones are custom built deals with control arm drop brackets, custom tie rods, etc. i don't know of any mainstream manufacturer of "kits". as for body lifts, sort of... i've seen a couple with subframe spacers which would be the equivalent of a body lift on a unibody car. personally, if i was going to do a car like that i'd get a mopar with torsion bars and leaves. crank the t-bars up a few inches, shackles out back, and roll.

12/7/2005 2:11:31 PM

here is what you do, put the car on a lift lift unitll the tires are off the ground the desired ride hieght. heat with a heat tourch. they will sag far enough to put the wheels on

12/7/2005 2:52:46 PM

^what the hell?

12/7/2005 2:56:05 PM

Quote :

"Reid loves them unibody BLs. "

yeah man i bought 5 on sale at 4wheel parts last weekend. i am going to try and sell them on ebay

12/7/2005 3:14:00 PM

Quote :

"heat with a heat tourch"

i want one of these magic heats tourchs that doesnt weaken the springs and create a rolling death trap like an oxy/acetylene

12/7/2005 5:38:06 PM

I watched a friend remove some ricer springs from a civic DX

damn things looked like sproingy pubes

[Edited on December 7, 2005 at 5:44 PM. Reason : heat treated, obviously ]

12/7/2005 5:44:18 PM

Spacers and body lift blocks

[Edited on December 7, 2005 at 7:02 PM. Reason : air shocks too]

12/7/2005 7:02:17 PM

Quote :

"custom built deals with control arm drop brackets"

winner.

12/8/2005 7:49:30 PM

Not for the majority, the ones I see are dump truck coils, spacers and maxed out air shocks.

12/9/2005 3:08:22 PM