How high can i go on my V8 without problems

[v8rangie]

Just done a quick search but didnt find much.

i have a RRC V8 and was wondering how high can i go with a suspension lift without changing the props etc...


Would 3" with Castor correction be too much?

[Guardian.]

no

[iomlr]

no

yes it would! especially if you  have castor correction  arms on! you'll need to change prop's and brake hoses.

you'd get away with  2 inches or possible 3 with standard radius arms on but defonately not with corrected arms on.

on a 2 inch lift you would not need these radius arms on, orignal Land rover ones will be fine and plus there alot stronger than any other.

[Brian the Sn@il]

raised mine last week and id say its close to a 3 inch lift on Britpart Springs.

No problems ( apart fromt he CV joint going today )

[Guardian.]

have you ever lifted anything?
drop the castor correction arms as they just bind the ujs up even more, in my opinion.
ive lifted 4" with everything standard except the shocks and springs of course, and longer brake pipes up front.
i drive like a loony and cover lot of miles and they are fine, 3 or 4 inches there is a noticeable difference, and this varies from vehicle to vehicle, but it aint that bad.
most important thing i think is have the tracking set after by someone who actually knows how to do it properly!
oh, and buy a pallet of ujs, as if you are offroading you will chew them up very quickly, again i got thousands of miles out of ours but only motorway driving!!
if your worried about caster get a new set of castor corrected rings for the axle ends swivel bits i think, proper job then, i think tomcat does them, but they aint cheap.

[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    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.

[Range Rover Blues]

raised mine last week and id say its close to a 3 inch lift on Britpart Springs.

No problems ( apart fromt he CV joint going today )

Not too easy to tell from a picture but I recon that's about the same as mine on plus 2" springs before it got so heavy.

The standard height is 790mm from floor to eyebrow on each corner, on standard tyres.

Chances are any RRC over 10 years old will have lost about an inch.

[Brian the Sn@il]

Yep i agree with that about the original Springs Loosing a inch, as it now sits 3 inches higher after the new springs.

SO in reality a 2 inch lift, after the original old springs will see you a 3 inch lift, Very pleased :)

[Range Rover Blues]

It looks pretty good too, those tyres don't look lost under there the way some do.

But when's the spoiler coming off?

[Brian the Sn@il]

It looks pretty good too, those tyres don't look lost under there the way some do.

But when's the spoiler coming off?

when it falls off ;)  :lol: