Subscribed.. Would like to see how they handle the steering limitations..

I have a gut feeling that we are years away from anything decent being released for our platform....

Ha, posted 2007, you called it! 

What about a Samurai front axle, your lifted coils or possibly coil overs if you have the money, wheel spacers, some links that copy the rear and an above axle steering kit?  Am I way off base?  You can keep your rims and tires plus a steel third member.  With all the Gen 1 Trackers getting harder to find a clean one and all the Gen 2's now going for about $4K could these be the next Suzuki to modify? Comments...

Sami axles aren't terribly strong.

Also, IFS coils have WAY too much lbs/sq in for a solid axle rig.

Last thought on it off the top of my head, the rack in pinion steering might be problematic.

Have you looked at Hagen's ZR3 project. That is 4" of lift on 33's, and seemed to perform very good in Moab this last spring.

The thoughts that keep running thru my mind are.  Get a dana 44 out of a wrecked heep tj with the steering box, trackbar, and link bars Switch the axle tubing from left to right to make it a passenger side drop.  Do some research about spring rates and go from there.  FYI the frame width difference at the front end is about .5 in with any luck the spring mount width on the axle and spring pockets in the frame will match.  Unfortunately I can't weld and I don't have time to do it on my DD.

Sorry I hijacked the thread. I'll try not to again.

Wow, it has been nearly 4 freakin' years since anyone one has posted in this thread - and guess what - there has been no change to altered ego's web site. It still says the kit is "in testing" and "coming soon."  I guess some of us have a different definition of "soon."

yeah been waiting for alter ego to release it as they are close to me and I could pick it up from there shop so no shipping, I even called them and asked it they new of a release date and they said that at the moment they were moving into a bigger building. also a straight bolt-on system would be awesome

Hi all, I just got a 41/2 lift from alter ego for my new project 2002 GV. I will post a write up as soon as I'm done. They seem like a good company.

  Kevin

Have you installed it yet? I'm in the middle of installing mine and ran into a problem. My buddy broke off one of the passenger side front diff bracket bolts....inside the diff, and then snapped the easy-out off while trying to get it out! So I went to pull the front diff out to make things easier to work on, but the driveshaft flange connection will not seperate. All four bolts have been removed. I tried prying them apart with a pry bar and got the shaft flange to move about 1/4". But now it's frozen in place and won't budge! Am I missing something? Are both halves of the flange mount maybe engaged by the pinion shaft splines? If so, could those splines could be rusted and binding things up?

I've been running the alter ego lift and can say it works well. I ran it as it came out of the box and it was very soft and real comfy on the street and gravel roads. But where i live we do more desert type, fast  lots of whoops etc. I found it to be too soft. I went with Dochtec struts and shocks and It is a bit harsh until the suspension warms up. I have a rear locker with 31s some minor trimming also have 5.12s for gears. I have a 2" body lift in a box I will be installing soon just to get it up out of the rocks.
Kevin