xd9-g19 wrote:Im getting ready to do a lift on my pathy, ive done alot of research on different types of lift, and i have narrowed it down to the 5in Calmini lift, I know its not the greatest out there especially for rock crawling, well I wont be doing the hardcore stuff, probably just the mild/novice trails, and before everyone starts bashing that its not the way to go let me explain: the calmini is just a platform of whats to come, i will eventually drop the spacer put the prg uca's on and the radflo coilovers, but those will be later.
No, I don't have it. No, I don't have answers for you, but I'm going to give you my $.02. This thing is a huge waste of money, IMO. And the Calmini is NOT a platform from which to expand. If you upgrade (misnomer: in this case, an "upgrade" would cost you much less money) from the Calmini, it means removing all of the Calmini spacers, which is essentially the entire meat behind their lift. If it were me, I'd spend a grand-chump change in comparison to the Calmini price-and actually buy something that will be useful & a real suspension upgrade. Unless you want to new wheels and massive new tires, what's the point of the Calmini? If you don't change out to larger wheels & tires, all you will have is a much higher center of gravity with the same ground clearance & a very strange looking vehicle. Yes, I'm trying my hardest to convince you that the Calmini is not what you want, and also to find out what exactly it is that you do want.
Were you still able to wheel it as if it was stock(Just a little bit higer)?
It will be a hell of a lot more than "just a little bit higher." 5" is just the so-called lift. That doesn't include the added clearance & lift you will get from adding larger wheels and tires. No way is it going to handle like stock if you jack it up so much. You'd definitely need to take corners a lot slower, among many other things like dropping or readjusting the lights, etc.