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real life vit cv experience.

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real life vit cv experience.

Post by tails83 »

just wondering how much droop you can get without breaking stuff for real, looking at 40mm strut spacer and strut mount flip, is this gonna be right or what. i'm asking it ths way as i'm expecting ppl to say 2in lift is max but with stock struts it don't matter as in the struts top out. how much extra droop can i get without breaking stuff. i do have 30mm spring spacers in the front and strut mont flip, other than that, the front suspension is stock.

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Post by atari4x4 »

i'm running the 3" calmini kit on 31's & i'm "yet" to have a problem......
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Post by wardy1 »

im running 30s with 3 inch suspention and strut flip. I do a farhking cv driving into my driveway...
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Post by atari4x4 »

wardy1 wrote:im running 30s with 3 inch suspention and strut flip. I do a farhking cv driving into my driveway...
can i see a pic of your driveway, do you need 4wd to get home? :D

did it have a split boot at any stage of its life?
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Post by wardy1 »

atari4x4 wrote:
wardy1 wrote:im running 30s with 3 inch suspention and strut flip. I do a farhking cv driving into my driveway...
can i see a pic of your driveway, do you need 4wd to get home? :D

did it have a split boot at any stage of its life?
the first time i had to replace them it was cause by split boots but the last to times have just been from realy light 4x4.
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Post by tails83 »

atari4x4 wrote:i'm running the 3" calmini kit on 31's & i'm "yet" to have a problem......
so you have strut spacers - how big are they

you have diff drop brakets, 1 or 2 inch.

if you have 40mm strut spacer and 40mm diff drop brakets - sort of cancels each other out. even tho you have 3in of lift, the strut is gonna stop to much droop and breaking the cv.
just trying to work it out, if you had 70mm strut spacers and no diff drop brakets then i know it woud be safe to allow that much extra down travel.
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Post by tails83 »

wardy1 wrote:im running 30s with 3 inch suspention and strut flip. I do a farhking cv driving into my driveway...
wardy, do you have longer struts as well as the strut mount flip?
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Post by atari4x4 »

tails83 wrote:
atari4x4 wrote:i'm running the 3" calmini kit on 31's & i'm "yet" to have a problem......
so you have strut spacers - how big are they

you have diff drop brakets, 1 or 2 inch.

if you have 40mm strut spacer and 40mm diff drop brakets - sort of cancels each other out. even tho you have 3in of lift, the strut is gonna stop to much droop and breaking the cv.
just trying to work it out, if you had 70mm strut spacers and no diff drop brakets then i know it woud be safe to allow that much extra down travel.
i'm guessing it's a 3" spacer + i'm running OME struts.

not sure about the diff brackets as they had to be modified to suit the j20a wide track vitara.
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Post by wardy1 »

tails83 wrote:
wardy1 wrote:im running 30s with 3 inch suspention and strut flip. I do a farhking cv driving into my driveway...
wardy, do you have longer struts as well as the strut mount flip?
not 100% on the size but they are iron man.
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Post by tails83 »

atari4x4 wrote:not sure about the diff brackets as they had to be modified to suit the j20a wide track vitara.
cool, so even with 2in diff drop brakets and 3in spacer makes it about an extra 1in drop plus the ome struts of 40mm means that it can handle 65 maybe 70mm of extra droop with no problems.

wardy, i think the ironman struts are stock length, do you have any droop as i only have 40mm with 50mm of lift, with 75mm that you have means you would only have 15mm of droop, it might be putting the extra stress on you cv's somehow and breaking them, i might also be wrong to lol.
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Post by Gonzo »

I had 2" springs, 1" spacer, OME stuts and a strut mount flip.

Driving hard on 33x10.5's I never broke a CV. Broke plenty of front diffs though...
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