I'm in the process of building up my 7 and wanted to add 2-3 inches of lift.

Does anyone know of a lift kit or what would be involved in fabrication for lift?

 

Fixed. You're welcome.

 

No ... LIFT as in UP not down

 

Yea... I know. What is the reason you want to lift it? Don't say to put 21" rims on it.

 

This is gonna get ugly.........

 

Flamesuit activated. O BTW my other car is a Jeep

 

That explains nothing. You want to lift your FC so it will be more like your Jeep?

 

Why must I explain myself for an answer. That's as absurd as asking a person why they are buying a head of cabbage for their soup!

 

Because if you gave me a serious reason, you're more likely to get a serious answer. Now I just assume that you want to turn it into a redneck-mud-mobile.

To answer the question and be done reading this thread; No. There aren't any kits. And considering the FC's suspension, if you choose to fabricate everything yourself, it will be hella expensive, all custom parts, and IMHO not worth it, when you can just go out and buy another Jeep for probably 1/4 the price.

 

Some people around here have very specific ideas of what is and is not appropriate for these cars. You'll probably need a damn good reason for lifting the car if you want to get any help here.

 

Agreeing with above. There are just things that you do not do. A V8 swap has legitimate reason behind it. Dinking a perfectly good rotary just gets you hated by a forum-full of conservatives with access to guns.

 

Lol

 

Wow. So hateful. LMAO.

Want to do a road rally car. Easier to dodge rocks with a couple more inches of lift not to mention its hard to find off road tires that will fit.

I understand most courses are nice but you have to be ready for the unexpected.

 

this thred made me LOL

 

(EDIT: saw your reasoning behind it, not as bad as I thought)


If you really went through with it, you'd likely have to fabricate pretty much every component of the suspension, I doubt the factory suspension geometry would work well with 2-3" of lift.

 

No one else wants to bash?

I think a 7 covered in mud is sexy. Speed and offroading seems like a great idea. Not to mention that a 7 already has the wheel base, weight distribution, and low polar moment. I say its a perfect road car to be turned into a road rally beast.

I could always paint it orange and put a confederate flag on top. Plenty of room in the back for shine!

 

if i was u i would find out how tall the struts and springs are. then buy some that are obv bigger. then custom make our of steel rods and steel plates all the suspension. at the same time might wanna figure out a way to extend the steering shaft and drop the rearend down so the axle shafts arn't at a 45 degree angle when at full extention. seems to be the only way

 

There's at least one guy on here that rallys. Can't remember who though...


Maybe having a moderator adding the words "for rallying" after you title will get this thread more views.

 

Dont lie, u know u wanna throw some TWANKS on it !!








J/k. honestly just take a look under it, it cant be that hard at all. Make some spacers for subframe/rear and drop brackets for the other ****. I have owned too many lifted vehicles and honestly this seems like a fairly straight forward project.

 

I ran out of things to say, but yea basically everyone agrees that you'd have to custom fabricate everything. I'm sure someone, somewhere has done it, but google hasn't turned anything up yet. There's a couple first gens doing rally (I'm going to assume for the purpose of possibly giving you a direction to look in, that is what you are trying to do.).

 

omg your solution is simple. Find a Suzuki Samurai and drop your rotary engine into it. They are actually badass and will go places jeeps only dream of making it, plus you can rip a mustang a new one on the way home.

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You're gonna need some longer rear swing arms and front control arms, longer springs/shocks (or at least some way of spacing stock-sized units down from the body) longer toe control rods in back and probably longer half-shafts, most likely you'll need to shift the rear toe control rod mounting location down a little, as well as the steering rack down a little so you dont get too much bump-steer at the front or passively at the back. You may need to move the a-arm mounting points down a bit too so you don't get too much jacking under side loads

 

Strip the full suspension, buy a rolling toyota single cab and ditch the body. Now place the 7 body on the truck frame and you are rolling. We have used the Toyota frame and sometimes motor/tranny for all kinds of shouldn't be lifted toys. They are a very good platform and drive train parts are strong and cheap.

 

Take the car to an off-road shop I'm sure they would have some decent ideas of what you could do to get the car set up the way you need it. Could be simple & could be costly, were you planning on doing this yourself?

 

Thinking about going for 8.8 with custom leaf packs would probably be easiest