I've missed some of the recent developments at Calmini.  I was hoping someone could fill me in on what's become available lately, if anything.

I'm trying to lift my 97 4 door enough for a nice set of 235/75's I have.  I was just gonna do the Calmini 3" suspension lift.  I'm down to trim things a little but not much.  I have an auto tranny, and was wondering what I could do about gearing, since I'm not sure where I'g get diff gears.  I see calmini is selling a 4.24 tcase gear.  Now...does that only work in 4wd low?  Or is that a gear reduction across the board for 2wd and 4wd modes?

Secondly, I'd like a rear bumper like Calmini's twin tube design but that's not available for a 4 door kick.  I remember reading something about somebody fitting one to a 4 door. 

And last, a friend of mine (a 4Runner guy) suggested that I use the manual tranny from a 2wd kick (since the tail housing would be sealed off, not set up to mate to a tcase) and then connect that to a tcase from a sammy and get gears for that.

     You might want to hold of on the rear bumper from Calmini.  I talked to emailed Zor (nice guy) and he is going to start having bumpers similar to his Sammy bumpers for the kicks soon.  Needless to say this has changed my bumper plans.

    You may want to take the time to email him so that he is more aware of the potential demand for track/kick stuff.

Im not to up to date on the tire to lift ratio for kicks and tracks but i can help you with the gearing part of it.

If you were to just gear down the kick t-case you would just lower 4hi and 4lo.
And that does not effect the 2wd part of it, so you loose some spunk with a lager tire.  Unless you want to gear the axles down.

The 2wd kick tranny would work out, with a sami T-case behind it.  You could put  4.16:1 gears in it and it would be fine for that size tire, you also wouldn't have to re-gear your axles!
Awww the beauty of a divorced transfer case!

Bumber 

Im not to up to date on the tire to lift ratio for kicks and tracks but i can help you with the gearing part of it.

If you were to just gear down the kick t-case you would just lower 4hi and 4lo.
And that does not effect the 2wd part of it, so you loose some spunk with a lager tire.  Unless you want to gear the axles down.

The 2wd kick tranny would work out, with a sami T-case behind it.  You could put  4.16:1 gears in it and it would be fine for that size tire, you also wouldn't have to re-gear your axles!
Awww the beauty of a divorced transfer case!

I don't think that t case gears effect 4 hi. It just effects 4 low.

there are other options that calmini now. check out OME suspension and a zuks offroad rear bumper. trailtough tcase gears are cheaper as well. not to slag on Calmini but they have moved on to other products with their full traction products. so the Suzuki stuff from them is kinda stagnant.

with 235's a small lift is needed and you shouldn't notice much of a difference in power on the road.

Don't forget, with the automatic you have much higher gears then the manual of the same year.  You can get some 5.12 gears from pretty much any manual Tracker/Sidekick and be geared just perfect for 30-31" tires. 

I ran 265/16's on a 98 sport with the coil spacers, strut mount flip and longer shocks with NO cutting.  I would do the coil spacers or the calmini lift way before a body lift, just my 2 cents.  Trail Tough has a tube rear bumper for the the 4 door and it is very nice.  The Kick t-case gears only change the 4 low range thus leaving the high gear stock.  Swapping to the 5.12:1 gears out of a manual trans would help the street driving (and offroad too). 

you don't have to use the 2wd trans to divorce the case, I run a 4x4 auto sidekick behind a 1.6 16 valve 93 sk, brent at trail tough makes an adapter, you remove the t case hard pess the new adapter/ seal  cut 1 inch off the intermediate shaft spline, and slide it in. these adapters were just a prototype when I got mine but im sure there a regular product by now