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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 08:49 AM
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I have received my RC 4" lift and now my adjustable control arms and am anxious to get this installed. I have been trying to picture the Jeep with the stock 32" tires and 17" wheels with the additional 4" of lift and just can't decide if it's gonna look bad or not.
Anyone have opinions (shouldnt be hard to get) or pics (maybe harder) of what this is gonna look like?
If it's gonna look to bad, I'll have to wait awhile longer to buy new tires.
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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Bodo
I have received my RC 4" lift and now my adjustable control arms and am anxious to get this installed. I have been trying to picture the Jeep with the stock 32" tires and 17" wheels with the additional 4" of lift and just can't decide if it's gonna look bad or not.
Anyone have opinions (shouldnt be hard to get) or pics (maybe harder) of what this is gonna look like?
If it's gonna look to bad, I'll have to wait awhile longer to buy new tires.
More overtime!
there will be a ton of wheel well showing...BIGTIME. If you can get past that...
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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 08:54 AM
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It'll drive fine, but unfortunatly I think it will look funny. Mine looked ok with my ome lift, but better wtih my new tires. For me it's not so much the tire diameter but the narrow stock tires make it look funny. Just my 2cents.
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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 09:00 AM
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You will be raising your center of gravity significantly while doing nothing for width. It'll look like a roller skate, not a blade, but a skate (you know those things from the 70's-80's), and might be more prone to roll over, so you need to be more careful around turns and such.

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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 09:03 AM
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Here's ours with 3" HD FT spring up front (gave me 4") and a 2.5 Teraflex BB puck in the rear. Not the same as you are doing, but at least it might give you an idea.

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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by bly109
Here's ours with 3" HD FT spring up front (gave me 4") and a 2.5 Teraflex BB puck in the rear. Not the same as you are doing, but at least it might give you an idea.

Thanks for the pic. It doesnt look too bad. Do you have those 35's on yet?
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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Bodo
Thanks for the pic. It doesnt look too bad. Do you have those 35's on yet?
yep

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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 09:19 AM
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It may look a bit out of proportion, but not horrible IMO.
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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 09:26 AM
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I wouldn't call it dumb, but the tires will seem mighty small. I mean, it's a Jeep so it's still cool.
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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by bly109
yep

That's a mighty good lookin Jeep you got.
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