OP, if you're going to do this stupid shit, you may as well do it right. I'm not an expert by any means but I do know most lift kits for chevy donks rely heavily on S10 axles and suspension parts. You can probably get most of what you need by doing a little research and taking a trip to a junkyard rather than buying the same thing packaged together as a "kit" for a marked up cost.

Don't be one of those morons who puts huge wheels/tires on a car and does nothing to upgrade the brakes.

If you're going on sand with a RWD car, you also need to look into tires. Your rear tires will not, and should not, be the same as your fronts.

 

I'm gonna go against the masses on this one, done right to the right car it is something that peaks my interest. The first car and the last one in the autoblog link are well built cars. The 70 Olds is absolutely badass. Those two are far ahead of a lifted caprice with 31's. An old AMC two door Eagle would be a good one, maybe the wagon version, they were 4wd and some came with a 304 V8.

 

Thanks for pointing out my typo bud, glad to see you have your spell checker on. No truck tires on my car and I'll certainly have no piece of shit Prius.

I believe you are missing my point. If you want an offroad machine, build a capable offroad machine, a car with big tires isnt capable of doing anything offroad that you couldn't do in a vehicle designed/built to do so. Thats like buying a 4x4 truck and then putting 32" wheels on it. You can't use it in the snow or offroad, so why buy a 4x4 to start with. You see where I'm going with that...

 

This thing is fucking cool

 

Uhhhh that sir is a borderline "Trophy Truck" and 4x4 LOL, you have no intention of doing nearly as much work or even half the quality. Please log off

 

Since the PO had to ask, this is robably the best example the he is capable of doing.







These cars are a dime a dozen. Grab a crusty but running one for $700 and go at it.

 

I was watching some desert racing shit in Mexico yesterday and saw some sick cars setup similar to this.
If done right it can be sick.
But OP if you don't live somewhere that you can actually use the car for what its setup for what's the point??

 

V70 cross country, or 90s subaru. Look kinda cool lifted on 29/31 bfg all terrains

 

No sense in adding bigger tires for an "offroad" machine if it doesn't have 4wd.

Best way to do it with little fab skills, take an old truck/SUV. Remove the body. Find a car body that is about the same length as the frame and bolt body to the frame.

It won't be easy. I hope you can at least cut metal and weld it back together. You may have to shorten the frame. Design body mounts and figure out all the conenctions going into the car.

You can take any car with a solid frame, make a suspension lift and weld a front axle in it, switching the trans over to a 4wd and adding a tcase. I would probably go the SUV right and find a good body to put on it.

If you are just wanting to lift a car to put tires on it for that "look"................you dum

 

So a few years back, 08' - 09' a buddy had a foxbody w/ a rusted out frame and a explorer with a blown motor and a messed up body from off roading. Long story short, the body from the mustang fit on the explorer frame w/ little modification and since the explorer had a 302 the mustang motor fit right in. If i can find pictures I'll post them but I thought it was pretty bad ass simply because you don't see a foxbody on a 6" lift rolling around on 35's too often