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Taller suspension/Suspension lift with BYB lift????


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Guest uhohru

I noticed that when a subaru is lifted it requires blocks for the shocks and struts....

 

Would you be able to run a taller shock/strut combo instead of the lift block?

 

Would the extra travel be too much for a cv? would it pop the cv out of the basket if it traveled to far down or to far up?

 

Has anyone done ANY kind of suspension lift on a subaru?

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Guest McBrat

very badly. the stock CV joints aren't exactly the most dependable as a lot of you already know....

 

with more travel, you will put the joints into greater angles, and they will fail even faster...

 

SubaruBrat has reinforced his axle bearing cups though to account for some of this.... plus rebuilt the axles with better quality parts I believe...

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Guest uhohru

True.... but only by a percentage right? It would be similar to the U-joint issue bigger trucks have with suspension lifts...

 

Period dot, if you do a suspension lift there will be un-happy angles in the end, no matter if it is built for a ford f-150 or a subaru brat.

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Guest bushbasher

while i was working on building a front lift for my car, I played around to see how much suspension lift i could get, and in the front it seemed that after 2" of suspension, the axles rub on the suspension arm when the suspension is fully extended, so downward travel would be reduced with any more suspension lift. This is with an ea82 car, also a turbo so it had bigger? cv's, and I didn't test the car with this much suspension lift, this was just done in the garage by sticking blocks of wood in the strut tower :P I think it would be easier to get more suspension lift from the back though.

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Guest uhohru

bump, anyone try this yet?

 

am i going to have to be the monkey? <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/grin.gif ALT=" >D">

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