Hello again, grand vitara suspension help?

[Rodden87]

Hello chaps, I hope a few of you might remember my jimny build from a laning trip we did last year. Well after selling the jimny and buying a defender (the biggest regret ever) I'm now desperate to return to zooki's. I'm considering a Gv lwb and would love some advice on lift and trimming required for roughly 31-32 inches tires.

I'm also going to be keeping my winch so any advice on winch mounts would be much appreciated

Thanks Andy

[Rodden87]

Nobody

[Anton]

back! I know nothing about GV's, but someone should be along soon, there are a few GV owners on here. It's just that most of us have SJ's or Vitaras, a few Jimny's, but not as many GV's.

[ScottieJ]

You'll need to do quite a bit of work to fit tyres that size on a GV, there's not many lift kits available for them really I don't think, plenty of places selling bodge lift parts like spring spacers etc though.

You will need to do quite a bit of trimming.

Tbh there's only a few people with modded GVs on here so you might need to wait a little while for them to pop on and reply.

[Rodden87]

Cheers chaps hope fully some one will shed some light if not I will just have to get angle grinder out after it get one lol

[Rodden87]

After a bit more of a look around It looks like a can get 3 inch suspension lift which give lots of arche height so the remaining problem will be arche width so it might be all down to how much you can trim?

[ScottieJ]

Where is the kit from?

There is a lot of crap around in this country at the moment so be careful.

[Rodden87]

Both bits4vits and jimnybits sell the kits or components to do the lift.

[dan_2k_uk]

There is a bit of plastic you can loose.

Guess it would need diff drip brackets like the Vit does. At least the front diff's and shafts are a bit stronger than a normal Vit.

[ScottieJ]

There is a bit of plastic you can loose.

Guess it would need diff drip brackets like the Vit does. At least the front diff's and shafts are a bit stronger than a normal Vit.

Depends on the engine, the 1.6 and 2.0 still have alloy front diffs, however I think the shafts are a bit longer so they will be at slightly less of an angle with the same lift on a normal vit.