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Old Jan 30, 2009 | 06:24 PM
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which is better rough coutry 4" complete lift or superlift 4"?
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Old Jan 30, 2009 | 06:32 PM
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I've got the 4in superlift, it's been good so far(12,000miles). Will be going coilovers in the not so distant future.
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Old Jan 30, 2009 | 06:43 PM
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Rough Country makes a great lift. Their is a lot of guys running the RC 4" in TN and everyone seems to like it. Mine is in the basement waiting on wheels and tires. The Ballistic Hostel's will be in Monday but I still need some more dough for those 35 Toyo Mt's, man are those things high!!!
Don't know anything about the Superlift 4".
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Old Jan 31, 2009 | 08:14 PM
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I have the superlift kit and superlift front lower control arms, but you really can't go wrong either way.

The rough country kit has a lot lower entry price point, but then again it only comes with relocation brackets for both track bars where the superlift has an adjustable track bar in the front. However, the RC comes with a drop pittman arm, which seems to be somewhat unique amoung the other vendors.

The Superlift kit is fairly complete, but with either kit you are going to want at least front lower adjustable control arms. RC has a kit that includes all 4 control arms, but they are non-adjustable. I don't have any experience with their control arms to know whether the lengths are correct or not, but if so it would be a heck of a deal. Then you could by the RC 4" kit with all control arms and only need to add a front track bar. (or both... I'm not much of a proponent of the brackets, but the rear superlift has held up OK thus far)

As I said, either way you go is going to be fine. They will both get you 4" closer to the sun, which is a good thing, right?
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Old Jan 31, 2009 | 08:34 PM
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I ditched the bracket on my superlift and got a jks adj rear, teraflex frt lowers instead of cambolts. I'll eventually change all my arms to tera flex and go with frt coilovers. I do know that my superlift dwarfs a bunch of the 3-4in lifts I've seen as far as height. Haven't set it next to a rough country though.
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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 08:37 AM
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thanks. Anyone else w some input. anyone have the complete 4" rough country?
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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 09:55 AM
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I have the 4" RC on my jeep, no complaints so far, haven't gone off road with it yet but normal driving it's been fine. Rougher than stock but what can you expect.

After reading all the posts about the negatives of using the cam bolts I went ahead and got a pair of adjustable lower front control arms from rusty's off road and installed those instead. Great product.
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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 02:13 PM
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I chose the 4" Superlift because it came with an adjustable front track bar. Also, the Mopar kit uses Superlift 4" springs with Bilstein 5100 shocks. The way I see it, if this is what Mopar offers, it's pretty damn good. I will be running the base Superlift shocks that came with the kit, but eventually will get the Bilsteins. IMO, this is the best set up for on and off road...
The only negative with the Superlift is that it uses cam bolts. I am opting out of using cam bolts and getting lower front arms and upper rears to fix the caster and pinion angles... It's really a matter of preference and depends on how much you plan to wheel.
Either way, you'll be happy, but for my money Superlift is the winner.
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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by brianb1222
thanks. Anyone else w some input. anyone have the complete 4" rough country?
As far as I know I am the first one to get the "Complete" kit with upper and lower control arms. Its in my garage waiting for a Saturday install. I'll let you know how it goes and turns out. Install looks to be straight forward, I just need to talk the wife into 5 hours of free time...
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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 05:18 PM
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Sweet, looks like us Florida boys are gonna be riding high!
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