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Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:21 pm

also the four bladed monster of a pipe cutter i rented ended up costing 7$ for the day.
seriously, equipment rental places are awesome.

and yeah ill see if my friend still has his thing, were going out to pine valley for my maiden voyage of my 74 baja!
soooooo excited

1/4" basic turn 3/8" little higher really stiff 1/2" ridiculous

im expecting to get at least a few inches (3-5 hopefully) out of my cut and turn, ill be doing the front full cage once i get some money to rent a tube bender and buy myself a real welder and ill be putting in a link pin then

Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:23 pm

Jason c -I'll I can say is wow,I know thing beams were a little higher but stock no cut and turn ,nothin orig 195/75/14 tires ,I have 13" from bottom of beam to ground.So with a cut and turned beam ,3" raisied spindals from blind chicken racing ,and 7.00 x 15 tires ,I should have some serious ground clearence.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:24 am

Stock height for a bug was about 6 inches. So it sounds like your thing is quite a bit higher.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:35 am

This is my car with a 1/4" cut and turn with 181 arms and spindles. Same 30" tires that Lotrat has.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:32 am

Cwrisley- you have some hieght under there! Thats what I'm looking for when finished.You dont even have raised spindals do you? Blind chicken racing says they take thing spindals and will raise them 3". But after looking at yours, that might make it to high,untill I figure how to get the rear to match .But yours looks really good .You dont remember how much hieght you got from turning beam 1/4" do you?Thanks jason and everyone for help and info.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:52 pm

man130 wrote: Cwrisley- you have some hieght under there! Thats what I'm looking for when finished.You dont even have raised spindals do you? Blind chicken racing says they take thing spindals and will raise them 3". But after looking at yours, that might make it to high,untill I figure how to get the rear to match .But yours looks really good .You dont remember how much hieght you got from turning beam 1/4" do you?Thanks jason and everyone for help and info.

181 arms and spindles are thing components, so he got ~2.5" of lift from that.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:55 pm

cwrisley wrote: This is my car with a 1/4" cut and turn with 181 arms and spindles. Same 30" tires that Lotrat has.

WOW! :shock: Any chance you can measure the height of the front end. My front tires are only 25 inches, and I've got about 12 inches. I wonder if my springs are worn because that looks like way more then 15 inches.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:00 pm

I think Cwrisley's car is rather fuddy duddy personally. Just not a fan.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:48 pm

I just needs some reddish-orange paint to spice it up a little... and a bumper.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:55 pm

I can go bigger in the back with my reduction boxes. It would help even things out a bit with my 30's up front. I'm just not sure if mine is sagging or not. Either the front of his car is really high or it just looks higher with the rear down.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:02 pm

Dude, you need to do something about that ass end...

;-)

Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:16 pm

motorbreath53 wrote: I think Cwrisley's car is rather fuddy duddy personally. Just not a fan.

I dont know, looks more stauky and beefy to me. Looks racecar without rear windows too. I just like it better than yours, thats all.

neanders wrote: Dude, you need to do something about that ass end...

In time good sir, in time!!!

Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:36 pm

Cwrisley-you through some 3x 3 rear arms in rear turn it a few notches and you'll have a sick rig,with some nice hieght. I looked at badbreaths car and compared to his nothing "fuddy Duddy" about yours at all .

Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:28 am

if anyone was interested, i busted out the tape measure today and found out that after a cut and turn of 1/4" i have 10 inches of clearance in the front, a full 4 inches more than stock if i remember correctly. i didn't have much gas in the car but that's still quite impressive.

also my friends thing isn't cut and turned, he runs it pretty much stock and says it works fine.