When does a lifted car cross the line?

"Noodles" (hilgyjeep) 01/10/2017 at 00:58 • Filed to: Lift kit

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I’m not here to say these are bad idea’s. In fact I actually like most of these. I’m just asking the question: at what point do you wish they had just bought a truck? Lets start with this Delorean.

Me personally, if John Delorean had put a decent engine in here instead of scoring some coke, I would feel like someone ruined this stainless steel masterpiece. But it was never really all that good. Just a beautiful steel shell on a not so good chassis with an extremely underpowered engine.

But what about normal cars? People lift Mustangs, Corvettes, Miatas, and anything else people can get their hands on. Is it wrong? Are they ruining cars? In some cases yes (haha). No matter how good a car is or isn’t doesn’t really change anything, mostly its just people having fun. Taking what they can afford, and building what they want. I can’t be mad at someone for having fun. Even if they’re hacking up a car I like. So are you OK with the lifted car? or do you wish they had just bought a truck. I don’t think anyone would enjoy a truck as much as the Smart car below....

Just keep your hands off of the Countach. That one’s sacred. See, even I have a limit

Noodles > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 01:01

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Honorable mention

InFierority Complex > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 01:12

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A person can do whatever they want to their vehicle, if they enjoy it for whatever reason it’s fine. I may not understand why they would do it, or want it myself but that doesn’t matter. 

Fiero Jalapeno?

Or Fiero Whatever-This-Is?

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 01:13

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Lamborghini did it to themselves.

Noodles > InFierority Complex 01/10/2017 at 01:14

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Those are both awesome

Noodles > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. 01/10/2017 at 01:17

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I love the LM002. Front engine though. Doesn’t count as a Countach

InFierority Complex > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 01:21

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I do have a soft spot for the Jalapeno. It just kinda works even though it probably shouldn’t.

Wagon Guy drives a Boostang > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 01:28

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I say whatever floats your boat. I wouldn’t do it, or drive the results of someone else lifting a car, but if they like it, who am I to judge.

Noodles > InFierority Complex 01/10/2017 at 01:29

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It looks like it should be going really fast on a dirt road

Noodles > Wagon Guy drives a Boostang 01/10/2017 at 01:37

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I support people who do it to their car for the sake of fun. But buying someone else’s Frankenstein creation is a whole different story.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 02:03

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It crosses the line first because it just won the fucking rally!

Noodles > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 01/10/2017 at 02:07

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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 02:09

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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 07:14

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Assuming it is safe, I am all for it. But that would be a bad assumption since most of these folks are likely of the “hold my beer” variety. So I don’t really trust that there were any thoughts of what might happen to the center of gravity or crash structures. I don’t really feel like being decapitated by some asshole who lifted his/her vehicle beyond any reasonable safety limit.

Scott > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 07:18

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To me it would only cross the line if it was a rare valuable car. for example a Ferrari 308... don’t think it would look good, but if the person wants to do it, they are one of the more common Ferraris and not vary valuable. A 280GTO though, well now your getting rare and valuable, and since it has a similar body style how dare you. Granted it was made for rallying, so there is some vague logic to it, but still. Now, do it to a 250GTO, and I’m likely to cut in the line of people wanting to smack some serious sense into you. do it to a 330P3/P4 and you deserve a firing squad, and if you have children they better be sent for therapy to make sure they did not follow in their parents foot steps.

DipodomysDeserti > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 09:06

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Lifting anything that high crosses the line of usefulness. Subarus make for the best lifted cars.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 09:47

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For me, a lifted car crosses the line when the height of the axle drops below the bottom of the chassis/bodyshell.

Below that it just looks like you’ve tacked a bodyshell on top of your chassis and it just looks stupid/incongruous. Put some actual, genuine thought into it and integrate the AWD/different chassis/big knobbly wheels into the existing design of the car.

Of all the pics above, only the MX-5 manages to not look stupid. Here’s a couple of other good examples:

Borderline:

I’ve got more I’ll post when I’m home :)

BigBlock440 > Noodles 01/10/2017 at 10:10

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But they did buy a truck, then they put a car body on top of it (at least with most of them).

Noodles > BigBlock440 01/10/2017 at 10:52

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that is true

Noodles > DipodomysDeserti 01/10/2017 at 10:55

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Yes they do.

OPPOsaurus WRX > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 01/10/2017 at 13:54

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I think that Jag is actually on a Range Rover chassis

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/10/2017 at 17:50

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Yeah i thought that too, but it doesn’t look like one car plonked on top of another. Chassis-swap is fine, so long as it looks like one whole car at the end of it :)

OPPOsaurus WRX > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 01/10/2017 at 17:58

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i think I had read it somewhere, If i remember correctly its a different engine as well, neither Jag or RR

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/10/2017 at 19:14

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Very interesting :) I wonder whether it was an American smallblock of some sort, or maybe something Toyota if it’s from the eastern hemisphere.

Now that you mention it, that does ring a bell...

OPPOsaurus WRX > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 01/10/2017 at 19:16

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I wanna say Rover

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/10/2017 at 19:24

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If it was a Rover V8 then that was a standard engine in the Range (and Land) Rover, alongside half of the British cars available on the market at the time ;)

OPPOsaurus WRX > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 01/10/2017 at 19:32

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That could be then

Die-Trying > Noodles 01/11/2017 at 09:15

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some cars look better lifted......