Thread: 3" Body lift

Excuse my ignorance with the body lift but how do you realign the bumpers? They are attached to the chassis. The body is lifted off the chassis leaving the bumper in situ. It would look awful. Or am I missing something glaringly obvious?

Hi

Like everything lifting, to me anyway, is a compromise.

You gain better ground clearance but lose roll over angle due to the higher centre of gravity.

Obviously the ******* who drive around in the jacked up nissyotas think they rule the world, but I would like to see them follow a P38 across the side of a hill

ON that note I once read that with a manual EAS setup you could in theory raise one side of the beast 5" more than the other side for traversing something really gnarly

Steve

Hey Steve,

n'tthere is no reason why you couldn't jack up one side and lower the other, by using the EAS delay timer isolation switch (which we all have now - don't we?), combined with the EAS by-pass valves for manual pumping.

Worth remembering. Would be great to see somebody try it - taking some poser shots. Even if its only a grass bank. Might go looking for one.


Sean.

Originally Posted by davidsonsm

Hey Steve,

n'tthere is no reason why you couldn't jack up one side and lower the other, by using the EAS delay timer isolation switch (which we all have now - don't we?), combined with the EAS by-pass valves for manual pumping.

Worth remembering. Would be great to see somebody try it - taking some poser shots. Even if its only a grass bank. Might go looking for one.


Sean.

Yeh it's one thing I remember but then forget in the heat of the moment. Get hung up underneath and manually pump the car up to stop things scraping. I'd be worried about over pumping till the shocks stroke out and bust something.. Although the pressure would rise in the pump when that happens I guess.

Most of the time the emergency mode doesn't get activated. Well it never has for me in my p38 but I guess when I've been hung up it hasn't had all wheels hanging lower than the targets.

Originally Posted by davidsonsm

Excuse my ignorance with the body lift but how do you realign the bumpers? They are attached to the chassis. The body is lifted off the chassis leaving the bumper in situ. It would look awful. Or am I missing something glaringly obvious?

You can realign the bumper by modifying the bumpers brackets or use custom bumpers

Originally Posted by davidsonsm

Hey Steve,

n'tthere is no reason why you couldn't jack up one side and lower the other, by using the EAS delay timer isolation switch (which we all have now - don't we?), combined with the EAS by-pass valves for manual pumping.

Worth remembering. Would be great to see somebody try it - taking some poser shots. Even if its only a grass bank. Might go looking for one.


Sean.

Or hook up the laptop to the EAS suite and change from inside the car?

Gary

As a half way solution, if you go slow enough the eas will take out all the body roll. I had a photo of my classic on a 35 degree slope with no body roll, but i find it's mostly the brake pedal that stops the eas levelling on really slow going, which is one of the reasons im putting in a switch to cut the brake line to the ecu.

I have to say though, I've been amazed at the stability of the p38. Dad followed the same line I did last years and had his d1 on 2 wheels - the p38 still felt stable.

In a lot of situations offroad though its the wheel articulation that makes it stable, a lot of side leans are a result of crossing errosion gulles - but granted on a uniform sidelean it'd be unreall what you'd be able to drive.

Originally Posted by benji

if you go slow enough the eas will take out all the body roll.

I don't think I have experienced this, or am I reading it wrong?

Do you mean the P38 will stay level ON a side slope or level TO the side slope?