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Old 09-24-2011, 11:12 PM
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Right now I sit at 5" in the front and 3" in the back.



The plan is to cut the front fenders up a bit and reinstall the stock flares higher up. I want to bumpstop the tires out of the fenders a bit more than they are right now. I already have longer shackles that need to go in the rear. The fenders are already cut and folded with the stock flares ziptied on. Will I need to have longer bumpstops in the rear as well to keep the tires out of the fenders? Overall I am trying to pull off a pretty stock look with 315/75R16's mounted on 16x8 with 4" backspacing. I am going to get another set of stock flares from the junkyard and try and extend the current flares I saw someone do it on another forum searching around. Going to try some epoxy sandpaper and painting over hopefully they will come out stock looking.

The current rim/tire is 285/75R16's on 16x7 with 4.5" of backspacing. I already have a ford 8.8 LSD and D30 with 4.88s in them. I will be keeping the current D30's shafts as spares.

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Old 09-26-2011, 08:50 AM
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i cut mine right up to were the panel meets and installed the fender flares on the door now and lined up with the bend under window.tryin to get pics on here so u can see
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Ya got the right idea. Bump stops and trimming will allow for a bigger tire w/o stuffing it much. Look for progressive bump stops for rear. And check out a thread by N2O called "LOW COG suspension tips/tricks" it's sick.
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