well finally got everything done(except camber adjustment)...  spacers installed and mount flipped,  and got my zuki sticker on too   well anyway enough with the boring stuff here's the pics...

before


after

little bit of a difference, now i just need to get some bigger tires under it....  all in all i'm happy though....   for now


mike

looks good, and you're right it needs bigger tires.

 

how much total lift did you get front and rear?  What size spacers did you use?  Any problems with camber?




I got a 2" set of springs from Boondox sitting here I need to install sometime.  Im just curious what Ill need to do to fix up things camber and s***.

Im just curious what Ill need to do to fix up things camber and s***.

Ovalize the upper strut hole with a die grinder(grind towards the strut body), this will allow you to push the knucle further into the strut body, and correct camber.

i used 1.5" spacers all around and it turned out great.  before the back sat a little higher than the front and had the typical nose dive situation.  now with the spacers it sits dead nutz even all around(32 1/4" to where i measured it all).  i got 1.5" lift on the rear and the front turned out to be 2"  i do have a slight camber issue but like uncivilized says it's not hard to fix.  although i have yet to do mine, lol.  i did run into some rather interesting problems with the rear shocks and the front strut nut but nothing major.  just had to use my sawzall on the rear shock lower bolt and i couldn't get the metal spacer out of the stock strut bushing so i used the bolts that came with my monroe shocks and just drilled out the inside lower shock mount hole so the monroe bolt would fit.  the front strut nut i had to use a pipe wrench to hold the washer nut still while i took the nut off.  and the front strut mount bolts i had to cut out with a dremel then i opened up the holes a bit with a slightly bigger drill bit and used some good bolts and lock nuts and washers. 

also i got a square spacer block for the rear differential a-arm with my coil spacers and installed that too.  not hard at all but the holes didn't line up quite right so i drilled them out slightly larger and all was well.  umm... trying to think if i'm forgetting anything... if you have any questions i'd gladly try to help as much as i can.  all in all it took me the better part of two days.  but that was with my daughter trying to help me too soo probably took me about 4hrs all together.  that was with the playing around with the rear shock bolts and everything too. 

oh even with the camber issue i drove it and it doesn't drive anydifferent other than sitting higher which is absolutely AWESOME   turning around sharp corners is a slightly bit harder though with the + camber but not too bad. 

mike

I did some boondox 1.5 spacers on my GV not too long ago and need to fix my camber as well. the positive camber totally sucks. at slow speeds when turning sharp the steering wheel will all of a sudden want to go all the way... at higher speeds you have to be careful.

yea, didn't make the GV level but seemingly sitting back a tadd even though I kept the stock isolators in the back and took them off the front. I like the rake back so no worries there

good looking kick

hey, looks good.
i just put in my Boondox 1.5" coil spacers to.  i got the camber bolts that they sell, so mine is pretty much normal.
here is a pic of mine, just done.  2" body lift soon to come.

sorry for the bad pic. it was getting dark, and all the others didnt turn out.

oh i forgot to mention i left the isolators out of both the front and rear.  do they make enough of a difference that i should worry about putting them back on? 

4n- looks good.  how much were the camber bolts?  oh and what size are they? 

i don't think the isolators make that much of a difference. they are 1/4 inch soft rubber if that.

the bolts are $20 from boondox and I am a bit upset with them because they sent me strut extenders instead of camber bolts and the rear spacers didn't fit very well but that's not the issue, my lack of camber bolts is

oi, strut extenders?!?!  you umm... going to use them

mike

not going to use them, got ome struts.