finally got a donor. im planning a 2" lift so will probably cut the donor chassis and weld it under my existing. dont want to cut my chassis just yet hehe. has anyone tried or at least attempted this? just want to know the pros and cons.

Try emailing Simon at Shropshire Suzuki, he lifted his X90 in a similar way

http://www.shropshire-suzuki.co.uk/

Quote from: Maroon Monsoon on June 13, 2006, 07:15:29 AM

some guy on here with a 2 door hard top modified his calmini drop brackets by removing the front breackets and pulling the axle down to where the CV's sit nice. Apearently the back one has a flexible bushing or something. once he had it like that I believe he madecardboard templates of new brackets and made them up out of steel. If I remember right that's what he said, if i find the thread I'll post the link for you

I don't think he did any cross memeber modifying.

I think one of the Aussies made his own brackets but I don't believe he had the Calmini kit. The problem is that the diff lowering is mainly achieved by rotating the housing. The rear mount can only be lowered around 3/4" . You can only go so far before the third is pointing up too far and the CV angle starts to increase again.

it was an aussie guy and he did have a calmini 3 inch kit an somehow made it a 5 inch lift or something. he said he modified his calmini drop brackets. probably left the back one lowered how calmini planned and I believe he just dropped the front ones enough to make it work. he used the method I described I believe. didn't see anything about having to be careful about not droping the front too much cause of making the CV angles bad anyway or something. the pics of his CV angles looked good. I don't know what happened to the topic, maybe it was deleted

your kick is going to be massive once you add a few mor inches of lift (good thing of course)

Actually he is a Kiwi, not an Aussie. Bit like calling a Canadian an American I think  What ZeusZuki did was to adapt the Calmini diff drop brackets to work on the wider Sport chassis and he then also put in some Calmini GV springs in the front to help with the extra weight of the V6 and ended up with a 5" lift I believe.

http://www.zukiworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=10803.0

There are a few guys, myself included that have added some lift to their kicks.  I added, or kept rather my 2" jeep TJ coil spacers on my rig when I added my Calmini 3" lift.   Once the suspension settled in, I had a little over 5.5" of suspension lift, and 3" of body lift.   I'm running 31" LTB's and have ALOT of space.   CV angles are not bad, and are actually better than my previous 2" TJ spacers and no diff drop brackets. 

Here's are a few  pics:

 

Actually he is a Kiwi, not an Aussie. Bit like calling a Canadian an American I think  What ZeusZuki did was to adapt the Calmini diff drop brackets to work on the wider Sport chassis and he then also put in some Calmini GV springs in the front to help with the extra weight of the V6 and ended up with a 5" lift I believe.

http://www.zukiworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=10803.0

my bad, I apoligize to zeuszuki. you know what they say when you assume, you make an "ass" out of "U" and "me"

suki sidekick, that is a massive wicked kick, do you have the sway bar in or out? just curious.

Look at his top picture, it's long gone.

Look at his top picture, it's long gone.

oh, I see that now, my bad.

I just want to know how bad your struts and shocks are topping out?

George