great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... N%26um%3D1
check it out. this guy has made his tercel into what i dream of doing to mine!
check it out. this guy has made his tercel into what i dream of doing to mine!
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Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
A number of these guys are members and have also have posted a number of videos as well - look in the Gallery Forum.
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Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
thats awesome! how did he get it lifted so high? just bigger springs and shocks or more work?
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Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
It's so hard for me to explain to you what we've done.
Here is a topic with many pics of our work. It's french but with image, you can understand
http://www.forum-auto.com/forum2.php?co ... w=0&nojs=0
Here is a topic with many pics of our work. It's french but with image, you can understand
http://www.forum-auto.com/forum2.php?co ... w=0&nojs=0
Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
Looks like new mounts were welded in the back...rods strengthened...front has a spacer welded in. Fairly simple...sort of. Looks like the front swaybar eventually broke...you'd need to loosen up that joint at the control arms?
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Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
very impressive.
but instead of welding up big spacers under the rear springs, has anyone found another make/model car with larger springs that will fit in?
my older brother fit some model Ford springs into the back of his '84 corolla which lifted it WAY up. he never had any problems from it.
but instead of welding up big spacers under the rear springs, has anyone found another make/model car with larger springs that will fit in?
my older brother fit some model Ford springs into the back of his '84 corolla which lifted it WAY up. he never had any problems from it.
Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
Somebody on here used some jeep springs in the back I think. I'd search on several terms....springs...lift....jeep?
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Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
Hi so how many inch lift does this give and does it place extra wear on the front C.v. shafts with all this lift?
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Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
the more you lift it, the more the angle on both the CV joints, and the rear axle U-joints, causing them to wear out faster. If you limit the lift to an inch or two max, there likely would not be much impact on joint life, if you want more than that you need to lower the front and rear cross members (not difficult to do with spacers and longer bolts) to reduce the angle, this will also lower the CG of the engine/trans, but will also lower your ground clearance (negating some of the reason you are raising it).
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'84 Tercel 4wd (daily driver, with on going mods)
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'85 Tercel 4wd DLX auto(daughter's daily driver)
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Re: great (french?) thread i found with beefed up Tercel!
I was under my wagon today and noticed that with donut boosted original springs and with the ride height still below specs...my axles are close to horizontal...that is almost no angle to the joints at either end. So at the correct ride height or above...there will be a pretty good angle on the joints.
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