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How high can i go on my V8 without problems

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barriesheene:
LOOKING GOOD BRIAN  :shock: How much to come and do mine for me ?  :lol: Oh and you were right about loosing the rear box  :cry:  Sounded awesome untill i refitted the straight pipe to try and cut the fumes out of the cab but it's all gone quiet again now  :roll:  waste of time cutting the box off really. going to look at a longlife stainless system after the new year. they can custom them tho so are you better off losing the middle box and keeping the back box ??
Opp's sorry v8rangie i've kinda high jacked your thread. I'm looking at lifting tho but it seems a tad too involved for my liking. Moving mounting points etc. you can lift a paj 2" body, 2" suspenion with no mods but then i suppose you have to to get any sort of clearence !!  :lol:  :lol:

barriesheene:
Oh and nice boat !!  :lol:  :lol:

Range Rover Blues:
Got to dissagree.  At 2 " lift you will remove the nominal castor setting completely, this will reduce if not remove the steering self-centring effect, making the steeing feel dead and woolly, the car will tramline much more than it does now.

The bottom shock mount will be permenantly twisted and the spring seat at an angle.  The diff filler plug will be at the wrong height.  There will be a small amount of pulsing in the front prop, though this can be reduced by altering the phasing of the UJs.

Worst of all your front tyres will get scrubbed away at the edges, and for A/T or M/T the edge is arguable the most important bit.

Granted a few people have managed to damage QT arms, but given what they were doing to them at the time......

I've had mine on for a couple of years with no problems and I really do drive it hard.  For that reason I find I prefer it to go where it's pointed.

It's most noticeable on the LSE, the air suspension can add an instant 2" lift, fortunatley it cannot stay up at more than 30mph. I say fortunatley because it's a total pig to drive, especially when you have got used to driving it in normal height mode.

v8rangie:
i only asked as im either going for a 2" sus lift with castor correction and  a 2" body lift

or just go for a 3" sus lift with lowered shock mounts extended brake lines and castor corrected front and rear arms.

Range Rover Blues:
Well given that both a 2" lift and a 3" lift should have longer brake lines and IMHO castor correction (Cardan prop etc etc) you should look at the cost of a body lift before deciding either/or.

Lots of us have suspension only lifts and do just fine but recently I'm more aware of body lifts becoming quite common.

There's advantages and dissadvantages to both as I'm sure you are aware but I woould say that if you are going to lift it, either way round, that you should put heavier springs on to control the body roll, so you might as well put lifted springs on.

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