This is going to sound like a noob question, and as I am sure you will agree it is. But I need some info and this is hands down the place to get it. For now i am going to put a 2.5 coil lift on my JKU so that as i am saving i can still have a little more clearance and flex on the trails.

That being said I have really been looking into the Evo Coil system, with the coil lever rear... but i read one another thread that you need a lift before you can do it, undoubtably the EVO system is the way to go for all aplications and what I am hoping to acheive in the end, but why does it require you to have a long or short arm lift in to build off of? And secondly if i want to run 40's what would be the proper lift to install pre-coil system to acheive this. if this has been beat to death somewhere that i havent looked you can just drop me a link, i dont mind reading more. I just didnt see it covered and was curious.

 

Bump for the powers of the intelligence that i know enhabits this site... i just really want to know if i need to save and budget for 2 lifts

 

If you want to go to coilovers and the Evo-Lever system, you probably want to look at the EVO long-arm system. After all, the front coil-over system, the evo-lever, and the evo longarm kit were all designed to work well together. This is not to say that a different manufacturer's long arm kit wouldn't work...but you might find that there are some advantages to running a full suspension system that was engineered to work together.

The main reason that you require a lift to add the EVO coil system to is that most people who are looking at spending that sort of money on a coilover system have already installed some sort of lift - the front coilover system, the rear Evo-Lever system, and the longarm upgrade are all separate so that people can upgrade exactly what they need. I'm sure that if you bought all three off the hop, you'd have no issues making things work.

 

Give me a call if you can. I will explain it all in detail.

Short story is, you need adjustable control arms to set you castor and pinion angles just like all lift kits. Similarly you could install just the coilover for lift without control arms and you would have a lifted jeep, but without castor correction you jeep will not steer very well just like a non coilover lift kit that does not have castor correction.

Basically the EVO Coilovers kit are a high performance spring and shock system that give huge benefits, but do require all the other components (control arms, steering, brakelines etc) that all lifts kits typically need, coilover or not.

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That makes alot of sense, I have to be honest, i would rather just save and do it right one and done. I will definitely call to get the details. I totally misread a post and took something out of context and made the assumption that you needed a lift prior, thanks guys!