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Offline Digger

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Re: new sidekick needs 33s have searched forum
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2007, 11:25:53 PM »
Well, if your front springs are blue as well as the rears, you most likely already have a 3" calmini lift on it. The 3" kit also includes blue rear lower control arms, blue upper rear Y link and blue front diff lowering brackets in addition to the blue front lower A-arms. If all those things are there, then it is almost definately a 3" calmini kit with different struts and shocks. While you could possibly put some small spacers on top of the springs for more lift, you really wont need spacers to fit the 33's. I managed to fit 33-10.50x15 Swamper radials on a 93 Tracker with a 4" body lift, 1-1/2" front coil spacers and Calmini 2" rear lift coils with some trimming of the fenderwells and a little floorboard pounding at the back of the front wheel wells. Since you already have at least 1" more lift than I did, you should be able to fit the tires on already with only slight trimming/pounding. Depending on the width of your tires, I would suggest 15x8" to 15x10" rims with around 3.75" of backspacing. More backspacing and you'll probably rub the frame a lot and less backspacing would need more trimming/pounding to clear the outside of the body. Good luck!
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Re: new sidekick needs 33s have searched forum
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2007, 11:43:05 PM »
Rhino - Not sure on the back spacing. I will try and find out for you.

If you do a search for "lifted 2.0 V6 five door" you should find some pics to look at - this rig is running 33" MTR's

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1600 Escudo / Kick, beam front, coils all round, 37 MTR's, 97" wheelbase, locked fr & rr,twin stick, front stock ratio, Calmini 5.14 t box rear, Warn XD9000i winch, blah blah!

2.0 V6 auto, Calmini 3" kit, 33" jandles, LT struts, blah blah

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Re: new sidekick needs 33s have searched forum
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2007, 04:53:35 AM »
3" kit has centre drop bracket and strut spacers 2" kit has no strut spacers and strut top mounts flipped. Also if you look at the pics on the Calmini site the 2" arms are quite different from the 3" arms.

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2.0 V6 five door

That could be the difference, mine is a 3dr. Digger seems to have had the same issues as myself.
For a 10.5 or 12.5" tyre I would go for 8" rims, I went with 10s because I got some for free.
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Re: new sidekick needs 33s have searched forum
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2007, 09:57:34 AM »
     i have no strut tower spacers im so confused. im ordering a sky spacer kit a bit of a roll of the dice but i think my cv angles are ok and that will give me strut spacers as well ive seen one guy on here with a 4 door with 6 inch aclmini combo and 2 inch spacers wich would ad about 2.5 inches and he claims it been ok well we will see. thanxs for all this input guys its great this forum is here
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Re: new sidekick needs 33s have searched forum
« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2007, 03:59:44 PM »
Rhino - that was just a reference, I have fitted the same set up on 3 doors as well. The 2.0 V6 and 1600's all work out the same  ;D - no floor bashing required ( not once ).

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1600 Escudo / Kick, beam front, coils all round, 37 MTR's, 97" wheelbase, locked fr & rr,twin stick, front stock ratio, Calmini 5.14 t box rear, Warn XD9000i winch, blah blah!

2.0 V6 auto, Calmini 3" kit, 33" jandles, LT struts, blah blah

2.5 V6 man GV, Calmini 2.5" kit, 235/85x16 jandle

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Re: new sidekick needs 33s have searched forum
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2007, 05:52:26 PM »
   ive read about 3 hours now and just found arguements im looking for strengthened cvs if any one can link me to a thread i know its probly been dicused to death
1994 sidekick soon to have 33s