A lot of you may know about my current parts collection and my plans for rebuilding my IFS.

I just had a crazy thought pop into my head for some reason, and I wanted some input from you guys...

Do you think this would be at all possible, or would this be completely un-doable:

Rancho UCAs, 1.5" BJ spacers, AND A BRACKET LIFT

aside from the CV angles and steering linkage, how hard do yall think this would make the alignment?

or is it even possible at all?

 

a bracket lift will improve cv angles...

 

Why would you want this?

 

overrdrive has that setup.... its fine. Just weaker

 

well, my first thought is how the heck are you gonna lift the rear up?

blocks?? cheap, but not a good idea...
maybe springs, but those are expensive, and you might have to move the hangers...

or shackles... but those would be crazy long...

maybe a nice combo...

the front would be fine... i mean, lots of people run bracket lifts and they dont have problems with the CVs... and with you going to run those rancho UCA's and your dif drop, id say that other than full droop, tou shouldnt have any problems and MIGHT even be at a better angle than most stock rigs...

i guess it all depends on your budget...

 

oh no, definately no blocks; it would be taller springs in the rear

see, a 4x4 shop accross town has the better part of a bracket lift sitting around (the control arm brackets, spindle risers or whatever you call them, and a couple other little parts and peices), and I talked to him about it a little while back and he'll give it all to me for like $100

it slipped my mind for a minute that the brackets that bolt to the spindle will raise the tie-rod mounting points, so I guess that wouldn't be too big of a deal. assuming a 1" diff drop could also be used with the bracket lift, I guess CV angles wouldn't be too much worse

it's would be pretty radical though!

overrdirve runs this setup huh? maybe he'll post some pics


thanks guy!



EDIT: nevermind about ovrrdrive's pics, I just looked them up; it would appear that he's in fact NOT running the rancho UCA's, unless those were old pictures. very nice looking setup though!

 

I'd ask you, "would you run the Rancho UCA's and BJ spacers together?" From what I've seen, the Rancho lift is basically the same as a stock UCA and BJ spacers.

If you would, the bracket lift isn't going to affect that hardly, if at all. Well designed bracket lifts do everything they can to keep the front end as close to stock as possible: a 4" bracket lift drops the LCA 4", drops the front diff 4",; drops the spindle 4", drops the anti-roll (sway) bar 4" and provides mount points for the tie rods to be at the stock angles. I'd be more worried about using the Rancho arms and the BJ's together than I would be about the bracket lift. But even then you have some options if the angles get extreme, but they will probably require some fabrication: a diff drop, Downey's Porsche CV's, telescoping half-shafts, etc.