Lifting a 4wd pro?

[me109]

I can't stop laughing!! I love it. I want to do this to mine so bad.......

Carry on. Can't wait to see what you do with it next.

[SgtRauksauff]

looks good!

[Scorch3]

So awesome. I want to see videos.

[nerd racing]

I want to see you in the mud and water now! also, curious to see how you mounted those lights, I have a pair that i want to put on the Protege since the headlights suck and we have a lot of deer around here!

[Blazin674]

Alright guys i took some fitment pics today when i did the passenger side front. Here they are,

Coilover on. I used cheap coilovers for now but, i plan to buy new springs when i get a chance.

Here is where all the clearance issues are located



This is how i fixed it


Instead of using rubber undercoat i decided to use spray on bed liner


Tomorrow im going to try to get the back situated. I noticed today that the inner side of the tire is hitting the strut tube. I might try to cut a set of old rotors and make wheel spacers out of them we'll see how it works.

[Mazda_Powered]

so awesome!!! keep it up man! also all the best with you and your wife.

[DuRWooD]

This is exactly why we need ROTM back.

[Blazin674]

Thanks for all the kind words guy. Im going to try to get as much done today as possible, my wife is going to be induced tomorrow at 530 am. Hopefully i can make some wheel spacers today either out of 1/4" aluminum or the face of old brake rotors. Maybe i can get a quick vid if i finish. Wish me luck.

[Mazda_Powered]

good luck!

[Blazin674]

Ok here is another update,
Here is a few pics of the rear struts hitting the tires and the clearance between the trailing arm and the tire.


Obviously i wont be able to drive like this, so after researching homemade wheel spacers on the jeep forums. One of the forum members made a suggestion about using old rotors as spacers, but the idea was shot down the next post. Me being the curious mechanic i decided to try it out.


This is about 1/4" thick.

With out spacer


With spacer

With the spacer on it left enought threads for 5-7 full turns of the lug nut.

And now the new clearance


I got to drive it for the first time today, it definitly needs an alignment. All in all it handled very well but now the car feels underpowered. I supercharger might just do the trick lol. I also took it back through the mud for a short trip but because of all the rain we had last week i almost got it stuck again. Sorry no vids but its hard to record your self driving from the out side hopefully next week i can get some time away to play.

[bogaut]

gettin **** done. cant wait too see more pics/video

[nerd racing]

I want to see you fording some water with this thing man!

[atomicEGT]

Time to make a snorkel

[josh95mx]

^^^+1^^^ on that! my thoughts exactly

Loving this thread

[jay]

Lulz.. so how'd mazda do when they ran themthere paris-dakar proteges anyhow? :-D