Body lift anyone?

When I bought my 4.8is, I was not sure if I wanted a fast sport truck or an offroad looking rig. Since I've been in offroading for 15 years in my younger days, buying a X5, 3.0L manual tranny and lift it was tempting. I finally decided that I had enough work and didn't need another project.

What I had in mind, was to do a suspension lift (1"), like some of you guys have done, by installing a spacer at the top of the strut, and at the rear springs. I also wanted to do a body lift, yeah, I know, the X5 doesn't have a frame, but it has 2 subframes. What I wanted to do, was to build spacers to install between the body and the front subframe, at the transmission crossmember, and the rear subframe. I was planning to lift the body by 3" for a total of 4" of lift. Some trimming of the bottom of the fenders would have give more room for something in the 33 to 35 range, depending of the offset of the wheels.

Of course a body lift is more work, like re routing the exhaust, modify the shifter linkage, relocate brake lines etc.

I whish someone could do what I didn't have the time to do. A X5 with 4" of lift and 33 or 35 X 12.50 would be sexy

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