Thanks for the great bump stop circumcision idea. Gonna do it, definitely. However, I'm also thinking of doing something else, and I'll be grateful for input from anyone who has experience with what I'm about to propose.

I want to do a lift kit and go with much bigger tires to fill up the space I'll be creating. Here, my goal is two-fold. First goal is the one I was hoping to get feedback on. And that is, I want my VX to "laugh" at potholes. I'm thinking that with so much tire meat and suspension travel between my VX and the sh*tty roads, I will basically render myself immune from crashing and banging and bumping and thumping my way down the moon-crater afflicted war zones that constitute our so-called 'roads' here in lovely New Jersey.

Is my hypothesis correct? Will this do the trick?

Second goal is to give my vehicle the look that I find awesome in those VX's that I've seen undertake the lift kit process. Again, I'll appreciate feedback and/or direction to threads that have already perhaps covered the subject at hand thoroughly.