Yes I know it's sacrilegious for most of you, but I rally, am looking to get into baja racing, and every great rally road here in CO ends in a jeep trail which my friends always seem to be camping on. As I’ve posted elsewhere, my RS got elked back in May, but it’s almost back from the dead and should be ready this week.
While it was on the mend I picked up an STI hatch then gave it a 2" Sumo Parts spacer lift/BFG KO2s and I was shocked how ralliable (yes I'm making up words) it stayed, but I tend to break cars a lot - hydrolocked it last Saturday - so I pretty much need two to keep at least one car drivable at all times.
So I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about lifting the RS. I saw a couple threads on air lifts which I’m not interested in, and one talking about a 1” lift for rallying so I gave it a bump, but not much else. Been googling a bunch but lifted Foci are few and far between. The first issue I see is the clearance is 4.1” front and 5.8 or 9 rear so I’m not sure spacers alone will do the trick. In fact I’ve heard of some people simply leveling them. Getting this mostly from Focus Fanatics & ST forums BTW. Ideally I’d like to get it relatively leveled then up about 2” or so if possible, although that seems like a lot on the front. I can throw some money at it, but not $5k rally springs I’ve heard of especially since this isn’t for competition. Yet.
I fired off messages to Team O'Neil since they're lifting their RS for rally, the Denver RS expert, 3R Racing here in Denver, and Mike Johnson @ Rebel Devil Customs who’s building a kit for the ST and is going to see if it’ll work for the RS at the end of the month - I’ll report back on this thread with any info I acquire. I also have a bunch of threads from other forums bookmarked that I need to re-read carefully, but figured I’d throw up a thread here to see if anyone’s knowledgeable on the subject. So… where my RS lift experts at?
While it was on the mend I picked up an STI hatch then gave it a 2" Sumo Parts spacer lift/BFG KO2s and I was shocked how ralliable (yes I'm making up words) it stayed, but I tend to break cars a lot - hydrolocked it last Saturday - so I pretty much need two to keep at least one car drivable at all times.
So I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about lifting the RS. I saw a couple threads on air lifts which I’m not interested in, and one talking about a 1” lift for rallying so I gave it a bump, but not much else. Been googling a bunch but lifted Foci are few and far between. The first issue I see is the clearance is 4.1” front and 5.8 or 9 rear so I’m not sure spacers alone will do the trick. In fact I’ve heard of some people simply leveling them. Getting this mostly from Focus Fanatics & ST forums BTW. Ideally I’d like to get it relatively leveled then up about 2” or so if possible, although that seems like a lot on the front. I can throw some money at it, but not $5k rally springs I’ve heard of especially since this isn’t for competition. Yet.
I fired off messages to Team O'Neil since they're lifting their RS for rally, the Denver RS expert, 3R Racing here in Denver, and Mike Johnson @ Rebel Devil Customs who’s building a kit for the ST and is going to see if it’ll work for the RS at the end of the month - I’ll report back on this thread with any info I acquire. I also have a bunch of threads from other forums bookmarked that I need to re-read carefully, but figured I’d throw up a thread here to see if anyone’s knowledgeable on the subject. So… where my RS lift experts at?