Low or high?

[mywhip]

Which do you prefer, a car that is lifted or lowered? Personally, i love a vehicle that is low. Not that low where you are touching the ground..just enough to close the gaps in the wheel wells.

Also, has anyone here lowered their ranger and have pictures? How much did it cost? I have done my research, and i know what it takes..but i can't really find prices for stuff.

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

id take lifted anyday. but a slight lowered truck with some meaty tires, kinda hot rod is really nice

 

[mywhip]

Yeah, like i said..i don't want it to touch the ground, just close the tire gap.

 

[adsm08]

I like lifted trucks and lowered cars. I will admit that I have seen some very nice lowered trucks, and have thought about dropping my Nova's body on a K-10 frame with a 6" lift and some super swampers.

 

[02RangerXLT]

Yeah, like i said..i don't want it to touch the ground, just close the tire gap.

Bigger tires work good for that

 

[mywhip]

Bigger tires work good for that

Bigger tires are more expensive.

 

[feellnfroggy]

Theres pics around here somewhere of my red weenie 92 ranger 4x2. I closed the gap without dropping it at all. 19x11 and 18x8 falken koblenz, LOL. It looked pretty good.

 

[t0x1k]

Am I weird if I like both?

stock height
that sums up my car

 

[feellnfroggy]

Is it just me or is that snorkel looking a little more restricted than most. I know I pitch that you cant really restrict the stock intake but that seems aweful small.

 

[Casper98]

I say Low!

 

[t0x1k]

Is it just me or is that snorkel looking a little more restricted than most. I know I pitch that you cant really restrict the stock intake but that seems aweful small.

It's 2" abs. I do have a bypass on the air box though.

 

[jhammel85]

Both for me!

I think the workmanship in both is awesome. You can't deny lowriders for their fabwork.

Theres a guy on RPS that has a Ford Galaxy interior in his 83 Ranger. Its a lowrider and very tastefully done.

BUT...If I had to choose one...I'd choose lifted for me personally.

 

[Hahnsb2]

As long as it serves a purpose I'm all for it.

I'm so tired of every douche and their brother buying a new(er) truck, lifting it 6" and throwing big tires on it. Congrats, you've made a truck that's a pain in the ass to get into, you've made it slower, you've made it get less MPG, you're killing your transmission, you've made it harder to load shit in, you've made it handle worse and you don't take it off-road and even if you did it would suck, because it "looks cool", no, it looks like every other shitbox on the road.

Nothing wrong with a nice lowered truck either as long as it's fast or capable of doing work. If it can't do either I don't see the point.

My truck is an all around hybrid, it's fairly fast, its 4wd with a rear locker so it gets around, I can haul and tow stuff and it gets decent mileage and it's a comfortable road trip vehicle. I'd actually like to drop the rear an inch or 2 so it's level.

 

[straycat]

Well, since the end of the world could be approaching with all the bad weather we have had around the globe and all that rain, fire...etc, etc.....I want only something that sits up high. 2wd, or 4wd. I want to be able to go through flooded streets and out in the woods to get away from the great escape when and if it ever happens. My wife said if there is a disaster here and they order everybody to evacuate...we are staying here. To be on those roads with 40,000+ idiots trying to leave at the same time??? No way!!!!

Two weeks ago we had this weird rain pattern that hit us for a few days in a row and I was so glad to be in my lifted 2wd Ranger that one day I was on my way home from the VA Hospital. I made it through areas that the roads were under 3-4 feet of water. I saw so many vehicles that were stalled and I went by them and I even drove over the high curbing to clear a huge clogged traffic jam and got back on the road to continue my journey home. I know that cars and even lower trucks would not be able to drive over to get to away from the total madness of this weird trek home!!

I has been a few years since I sold my last 4wd 89 BII. I bought that bran dew in 89 and sold it a few years back....but I might get another early Bronco again. I had a 76 that I had for over 10 years that never broke down on me and ran like a top with 17,000 miles on it. Hmmmmm a nice built V8 early Bronco with 35's would be really nice again!!!

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I like both lifted and lowered, depending on what's being done with it. For a work truck or everyday rig, I prefer it to be within 3" of stock height (in my case preferably up to 3" higher than stock). When you get a truck taller than that, it's a pain to climb in and out of the bed to move materials an stuff. Yet I see a lot of moron "contractors" running around here with chevys that have a nosebleed lift and insanely loud exhaust....

Several years back I was in an auto "accident" and my one knee got a lil messed up, internal damage, can only be fixed with surgery, yada, yada. I found it was MUCH easier to step up into a truck than to try to get in and out of a car.

My Ranger I put bigger tires on to fill up the gap some in the wheel arch. 235/75/15 tires seemed to do a nice job and I got aggressive AT tires. They were actually cheaper at the time than buying stock sized tires because at the time there was only like 4 tires available in the stock size that was on my truck.