New England B.S. Thread

TBD as of right now. Waiting on it actually getting to me first... also trying to figure out if I need to do anything to the rear, since apparently it doesn't give you any lift in the back, only in the front. Figuring out if I need an AAL or not, or what the best option is since I have an ARE cap.

 

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Just volunteered for jackstand duty.

 

Just go for it. Mostly because my inexperienced opinion says you'll need it to make it look just right and if you're gonna walk on ice you might as well dance!

 

As in being the jackstand? I guess I'll start doing some squats

 

Yep. Better get on it.

 

On an unrelated note your sig is from Top Gear right? The quote I mean, I know the .gif is.

 

Well I guess I'm ordering some lights this weekend!

 

You mean most extreme elimination challenge

 

mxc ? what an absolutely wonderful show

 

Ya MCX is the one I'm thinking about

 

You could throw a Deaver AAL in, which should give you a couple inches I think. What's the lift on the front? Usually you want X-1" on the rear to get it level.

HeadStrong OffRoad may be able to get it here in time, I know my order shipped pretty quick!

Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it. You may have some bro-lean, but that's easily fixed in the future.

 

From what I saw/read, the front lift would be 1.75

Someone suggested the 3 leaf AAL from Headstrong, so kinda thinking about that... reached out to Marie by PM to get her input/opinion, and then go from there.

 

I'd check the specs on the rear shocks and make sure the compressed/ extended lengths will work with any sort of lift. It would suck to blow the shocks. I know the regular 5160s can accommodate around 2" of lift, not sure about the PRO variant though.

 

Not a bad idea. I think I may need to wait to get it in to check all of that... I think. We'll see.

 

Not a bad idea! So by my reckoning (which may be wrong), you're looking at your front end being 3/4" higher than you're rear. I don't think you'll really notice the difference!

You could always put a few PSI more in your rear tires and it'll level out haha

 

Yeah... my concern now is the sagging over time, making it worse. Which is what "triggered" me questioning what/if anything can be done. Figured if that is an "issue" or a possibility, thinking it would just be worth doing it right now, rather than fixing it later.

 

I hear you. When we did my lift the rear was so much easier than the front, so if you decide to wait and see you'll definitely be able to add a leaf or three fairly easily down the road.

Plus, at barely 4 years old with a new cap I doubt you'll see much sagging yet. Down the road a few years maybe.

 

Yes to both. The quote is from a review Clarkson did on the Ford Focus RS.

 

Yeah, that's a good point right there, and I thought about that as well. Thinking that with brand new shocks, it hopefully wouldn't be a "problem" just yet. And, with the cap on it now and 50K on the current stock/crappy oem shocks, it doesn't look uneven to me... at least not that I can tell.