Took this past week off work to burn off the rest of my annual leave. JDMCRX and I installed the lift kit he designed and manufactured on my Suzuki Grand Vitara.
kit includes:

Here she is before surgery....





Me in mad scientist mode performing surgery...


I have a big tongue....my GF loves it !!

Here's some surgery pics....









We had to make some modifications in order to adjust camber like
slotting the top holes on the front strut mounts



and grinding some excess material off the spindle



Overall, it was a fun time. The front end was a bitch to do as my truck was uncooperative. A few hard to loosen bolts. Luckily his garage has a disgusting array of tools.
The finished product.





SHAZAM!!

Nice DRYW soon some mud holes

That is nice and very impressive. How much is this lift again?

Why'd you have to grind on the knuckle?

Cause when u lift ur truck ur control arms go like this / \ which gives u positive camber so u have to bring the spindle inwards towards the inside of the truck . Ill have the write up done tomorrow u will see why

Josh

That is nice and very impressive. How much is this lift again?

The lift is $330 cdn or roughly $280-290us depending on the US dollar

Now we got a chance to measure how much the strut spacers give u drop wise.  Drop wise boths sides we gained 2 1/8".

As for the lift the rear gives u 2" rear and 1.75" front. Alignment was only out slightly camber Dead on 

looks good, need to get some pics up of my tracker soon...  actually took some.  so, you think those 4dr's can keep up to my 2dr in the upcoming muck that our area's gonna be so full of real soon?!?!?! 

when i installed my 1inch front spacer i didn't need to worry about that spindle issue at all just as an fyi for others.

also, for the rear shocks, i put in some rear crown vics, the ford replacement part from dealer.. the bottom shock mount doens't fit with the stock bolt and the aftermarket bolt will not fit either.  ended up going to home depot (canadian tire was like talking to f'in monkeys as usual..) and grabbing a little metal insert from the plumbing section to fit into the bushing, fit perfect with the bolt but is a little short and i'm figuring it will eventually work its way into the rubber and wreck the bushing.  what did you do about this little problem?  anyway the ride is much improved with these shocks..

RANCHO and some custom cut sleves

cool, where did you pick up the sleeves, i couldn't find anything the right diameter that i could cut doing my last minute running around..   i should probably fix mine up properly.  another question, any spacer material kicking around?  i could potentially use more lift for the back end, the girly springs sag quickly with weight in them.  maybe a quarter to half an inch, lemme know.

B

What did you use to extend the rear bump stop? It look like the rear sopacer swallows the stock one. And how is the new one in keeping the spring front jumping off the spacer? Also how is the brake line length with the suspension fully extended in the front?

The rear spacers im gonna be making up some rear .5" spacers the bushing what size u need like ur shocks the inside diameter

josh

cool, where did you pick up the sleeves, i couldn't find anything the right diameter that i could cut doing my last minute running around..   i should probably fix mine up properly.  another question, any spacer material kicking around?  i could potentially use more lift for the back end, the girly springs sag quickly with weight in them.  maybe a quarter to half an inch, lemme know.

B

Tht on pic is not right we were playing around with shit.

cool, get in touch when you're about to get those .5 spacers going

b

The rear spacers im gonna be making up some rear .5" spacers the bushing what size u need like ur shocks the inside diameter

josh

Looks good, now you can fit even bigger tires. 

Some questions for you guys regarding the spacers in the front. When you installed the spacers, how tall were the spacers in the front? Did you do anything with the steering befor eyou bolted it back to the spindle? Did you have any problems with the sway bar connecting to the spindle after the spacer was installed?