General Questions Bout Lifting or Lowering

[Ascinder]

I am in the general consensus about lifting being way better than lowering. Why take a perfectly good rally inspired vehicle and bring such shame upon it. It's like baking a cake and adding ketchup to the mix-just plain wrong. OK, maybe that's a little harsh, but since so many more people lift than lower I figure it's for a darn good reason. Lowering you would probably want to have a professional do simply because it is not widely done/known about on the forums, so any advice is going to be pretty scarce. Lifting can be done for as little as $60 and a a few hours worth of your time(if that), and is really easy. Also lifting looks way way way way way way way cooler.

[Lizardmen3477]

I been leaning towards lifting on day one and i am still i just wanted to get some opinions but i guess there isnt any besides lift lol. ok know thats out of the way i only wanna lift it mayb 3 inches or so people with exp in lifting their own vx 3inches or so please chime in and tell me how to go bout so thanks lot.

[Lizardmen3477]

also include what effects it has on the cross.

[etlsport]

3 inches is about the most you can lift a vx without extensive work anyway, a quick search will return a lot of info on the subject... the short of it is...

get ome 912 springs, they provide 3" of lift in the rear....
crank your torsion bars (with wheels off the ground) until you have your desired amount of lift

adverse effects
with bigger tires- lost performance
loss of turning radius
increased stress on CV joints/boots
some report a grinding sound from driveshaft angle