Rock Crawler Build - E53 3.0L

[beamertruck]

Man i wanna see that thing in action when its done. Il bring my raptor out and well do a head to head haha

[Sarek]

Originally Posted by beamertruck

Man i wanna see that thing in action when its done. Il bring my raptor out and well do a head to head haha

I will get some videos as soon as it is back up and running. Head to head with a raptor...ha

[Sarek]

More progress on the bumper

[beamertruck]

MAN that is KILLER! Im jealous as hell! Im sure that baby can take the raptor on.

[Turbo_Bimmer]

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

[stackz]

I just love how sarek completely stole this thread from OP hahaha

[beamertruck]

FMU has spacers for the X.

[Ricky Bobby]

Sarek the only thing I don't like of your build is the extremely cheap aftermarket headlights which don't flow at all with the build, even a set of OEM headlights would be better.

[beamertruck]

I like the fact the amber side markers are gone, I just dont like the way those look

[Sarek]

Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

Sarek the only thing I don't like of your build is the extremely cheap afteI need to find somarket headlights which don't flow at all with the build, even a set of OEM headlights would be better.

I totally agree with what you say about the headlights. I hate them! They came on it when I bought it.I need to find something to put in there that looks better. I need to hurry up and break them.