D2 with 2" Body Lift and 3" spring lift??

damn big wheels for a d2!! looks cool..

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

same same in qld and Vic...

dad (hes in WA) had a hell of a time with lara as she sits higher than a stock deefer when shes standard due to the tombraider edition thing... that played merry hell with him....

Ive even been pinged once in big red when I had the side steps off as it "looked" too tall from the side when it measured up as on spec I was let off, still a hassle having to goto the RTA to get the ticket cleared tho.

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I called them once asking how they measure the height and what their listed height was for a RRC, they said "that the onus was on the owner to prove the height is not >2" over standard"
I don't know how you are supposed to prove it, I always assumed they just had a list somewhere.
If this is the case I would like to find a miss-print for the standard RRC vehicle height ;)

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Originally Posted by Slunnie

For new ones you can pick up Ford 9" with house portal boxs from Portal-tek in the US with full custom specs - expensive, but the dollar is good, Ford 9" with Hummer portal boxs from Dobbin engineering in Sydney - still expensive, After this there are grafted portals that you can do for a bit cheaper like Volvos if you can find a set. Unimogs are another very common one, though the front is often a problem as the diff is in the wrong spot, though some people engineer a drop swap. Mog's I have a contact for in Sydney who import these for $5-6K per set. A lot cheaper than $20K for the others!

Then there is fitting of the axles on top.

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Seems like it's christmas after all !!!!!! :D:p

Is it not ileagal to do a body lift on an airbag equiped vehicle? Not knowing what year the Disco is I am presuming that being a D2 it would have airbags, or were they an option up to what year before becoming standard?

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Originally Posted by HangOver

I called them once asking how they measure the height and what their listed height was for a RRC, they said "that the onus was on the owner to prove the height is not >2" over standard"
I don't know how you are supposed to prove it, I always assumed they just had a list somewhere.
If this is the case I would like to find a miss-print for the standard RRC vehicle height ;)

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Guilty until proven innocent. gGtta love the lack of accountability just because.... they thought.

D2 ride height specs including tolerances are published in RAVE.

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Originally Posted by crash

Is it not ileagal to do a body lift on an airbag equiped vehicle? Not knowing what year the Disco is I am presuming that being a D2 it would have airbags, or were they an option up to what year before becoming standard?

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All D2's should have airbags AFAIK.

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Originally Posted by Slunnie

With the exception of the body lift which I never really researched, I suspect that if it was engineered prior to the introduction of DOTARS NCOP that the rest of it may be sweet. 3" in the coils is within 1/3 suspension travel rules, and there is nothing that rules out 37" tyres within the regulations assuming he can get enough steering lock on it to turn the minimum radius required.

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Sorry Mike, but I agree with Slunnie on this.

I have researched it heaps and also had some long discussions with my engineer.
Firstly 37's can be engineered and made legal, it is just a question on $$$$. In some of the other states it might be a bit easier to get anything over 33" engineered and passed but in Vic it is very hard but still possible and legal but not practical due to the cost.

Even a body lift is theoretically legal on a SRS equipped 4WD but it has to be crash tested t prove that the body lift is ok and so a "one off" build would not be possible, so I think it is safe to say that a body lift on a SRS 4WD would be illegal.