brands of lift kits

rigby · Post by **rigby** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:33 pm

well most people have there car lifted i was just wondering were u get them from. i got mine from hi rise have not put it in yet. one mate has got one from hirise and he only says godod things about it. so were u all get urs from

tim_81coupe · Post by **tim_81coupe** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:07 pm

Being the BYB forum, there are a lot of BYB lifted Subarus getting about around here.

I'm swapping out my home-made liftkit for a BYB one very shortly, and my brother's L series has a BYB kit too.

I know of a few Hirise ones, a few homemade ones and a couple of SubaXtreme ones getting around in WA. The key isn't really the brand - its what its built of, how it's built and how it's installed. My brother's kit had only one minor problem that was quickly and easily fixed, since then its been going great.

So how come there's these lifted Subarus getting around in Perth that don't go 4WDing with the WA crew?

rigby · Post by **rigby** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:17 pm

i dunno about the 4wd bit yet new to all this and need some spare time to get the kit on and then gotta get rims and tyres but when all that has happened i'll be out there for sure

fredsub · Post by **fredsub** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:35 pm

roll call of all the lift kit brands? :P

Subamods (Victoria I think) - do they still exist?
byb
subaextreme
hirise
scorpian

thats atleast 5 maybe, so many? so if theres 5 makers churning out lift kits every working day

so maybe 800 per yr, how come I'm not seeing more lifted subarus around

and why are the makers mostly in Qld?

seagull · Post by **seagull** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:14 am

There is the seagull brand home made

Tim I am building my car , so hang in there ( i tell my self this )

when you all see it you will all like it I am sure

seagull

schultzie · Post by **schultzie** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:39 pm

suba mods doesnt exist any more... although the lift in the MY is one of his old kits solid alu...

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:56 pm

dunno about subamods not existing.
I would say one of the board members owns the buisness......

subanator · Post by **subanator** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:58 pm

tim_81coupe wrote:So how come there's these lifted Subarus getting around in Perth that don't go 4WDing with the WA crew?

Yeah I'm guilty of that.

Mainly being:
Work - shift including working weekends
Family - time, and not interested in going bush
House - morgage (lots a money)
Spare time - very little
Subie - daily work driver (try and not to break it = money)

So basically Time & Money.

I will try and make an effort this year when the Tourer gets mobile, I do want to get these wheels dirty

schultzie · Post by **schultzie** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:56 pm

that is steve right.... because i think i got the steering extender through him... no longer in vic though...

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:07 pm

no its not steve

Bumpty · Post by **Bumpty** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:00 am

Bumpty...
Who else has what?

Phizinza · Post by **Phizinza** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:28 pm

We built a couple for my brothers MY wagon and a mates L series using Hi-Rise (I have to say this, because BYB wouldn't get back to us, this was about a year ago, I think they are better now) front strut tops. Then we bought some 2x2" alloy square rod and a cold cut blade for the circular saw. Bought all the bolts from the local steel shop and all up saved about $150 a kit. But it is so much easier to just go an buy them. Plus it took a while to get the bolts in. 12mm bolts over 75mm long are hard to get in a 1.25mm thread.
We would of made the front strut tops our selves but at the time we need to kits sooner then later and we wernt sure on the camber offset needed.