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Title: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: tremendous on May 24, 2004, 04:52:12 AM
Should I go with Old Man Emu and a Rocky Road lift or go with a super articulating kit from Calmini. Although I will be doing a lot of off roading, I still want my '97 Sidekick Sport to be very liveable on the street.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: Mike71 on May 24, 2004, 05:13:51 AM
just from the ammount of calimini users it seems calmini..i will be going the 6" combo route in a few months =)

OME seems to be not bad either lol..i didnt help much sorry..other people will chime in =)
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: Bobzooki on May 24, 2004, 05:14:50 AM
Calmini stuff doesn't work on the Sidekick Sport.   :'(
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: zookiemike on May 24, 2004, 05:18:55 AM
Old Man Emu  worked for me. But anybody that sells ARB can get it ;D

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Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: Kreg on May 24, 2004, 07:47:33 AM
Ya unfortunately the Calmini kits wont work on a sidekick sport, so I guess your gonna have to go with the RR kit.
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: DaddyDave on May 25, 2004, 08:15:27 AM
you should be able to coil spacers from anywhere...they don't have to come from rro
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: cj on May 25, 2004, 11:13:09 AM
Calmini will work on the sport but it will need a couple of mods. You will need to mod the front axle lowering mounts as the chassis is wider on the sport and you will need the balljoints from a 1.6 for the lower control arms.
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: DaddyDave on May 25, 2004, 11:14:33 AM
do the control arms even fit?
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: cj on May 25, 2004, 11:25:15 AM
Yep, a guy in our club is running it on his.
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: cj on May 25, 2004, 11:30:13 AM
I've got OME on mine and it works ok but it's not the ultimate and I am trying to find ways to improve it at the moment but their struts are the best. Even Calmini isn't the ultimate but they do have the wider control arms for the front and you can get more out of the back with their kit but people like Mike modify it still further.
Title: Re: Calmini or Rocky Road?
Post by: DaddyDave on May 25, 2004, 12:00:02 PM
the ultimate would be SAS.  there isn't a better bolt-on system available than the CALMINI though.  The other setups are just glorified body lifts.