hello everyone
just a few pictures and a few words about my project...the truck is a hummer h2 2003 and because i live in romania,europe it is hard for me to bring here heavy parts, but i was dreaming about a lift kit for my truck. so i have decided to make myself one. i have a tuning workshop here so i am pretty good working on fiberglass but this project is all metal. i am not affraid of working and also not affraid of mistakes...mistakes are the way to go forward !
also thinking about some engine mods: just bought a crane programmer, a cam shaft 218/224 with 0.550 lift, yellow corvette valve springs,i am going to mill the heads 2mm(0.080) to rise the compression ratio to 12:1, a custom made air intake through the hood , a custom made satinless steel headers and a doual side pipes exahaust ! these are my intentions and will folow pictures and updates about the project.
since i have decided to build one i was thinking about 8" lift . so bought a set of pitbull rockers 39,5 that are put on the original rims for the moment. i will go with a bracket style setup because it's easyer for me.so everything will be lowerd 8": uper brackets, front crossmemer,rear crossmember,front differential,center link etc...here are a few pics ...
just let me know what you think and also if you have any sugestions i am glad to listen to them ...this is my first project like this on a truck,usually i work on sport cars but everything's got a begining...
thanks for looking at my work !

...i don't know why i'm not able to put more than 5 pics...

 

got it..only 5 pics with one post...ok !
the last pic is with the wheel put only for looking at the final "product" hope that it will look like that
thanks again for watching!

 

Looks nice!

 

Good luck with that..I wouldnt know where to begin nor would I even attempt it..but if you know what your doing than go for it..

 

hey
here are more pics about the project in the real time...i mean after 10 days of work from the previous pics...everything is coming togheter now. i have cut the centerlink and also drop the tie rods so the angles are kept as oem. in fact everything is kept oem...even the front differential is droped 8" so from what i have research , other companies drop the diff a little less then the arms so the half drive shafts have a little more angle then original. so in my case i guess i could "force " the torsion keys (wich are allreay changed) to get something like 10" ...we'll see about that...
yesterday i have just finished the stoppers form the arms upper and lower and also i had to reposition the sway bar , but looks good.
for tomorow i plan to make the shocks mounts. i want to put double shocks on each side. i have bought 4 bilstein that i like ...

 

you should sell lift kits. bro good job

 

Looking awesome..

Very nice job..

 

and a few more pics...

 

knowing the oem pitman/idler assembly is pretty weak from the factory...and for that reason i have made an aditional arm in the lower part of the centerlink and is perfectly angled with the pitman arm. it is made from two bearings and adjustable it distance. if you look at the pic (it is upsidedown sorry for that) you will se a bold welded on the bottom of the centerlink...that's the bolt for the "helping" arm ! now i am not verry shure how tough to make it...right know is 14mm bolt wich is a little more than 1/2" so thinking that this one is only helping i think that is ok...if not going directly to 1 " bolt
in the first situation i wanted to put two helping arms, but i don't have enough space for the driver side because of the diff so i only put one in the middle. regarding the offset of the centerlink it is pretty in the original position of the tierods ...they go straight in line one with the other and perpendicular on the wheel rotation direction when the steering wheel is on the center. sounds a little bit complicated but think you get the picture. the original centerlink had something like 1.5" offset of the tierods attachment points in the back direction. when i dropped it, because it has an angle from the vertical it was going in the back exactly like the original offset so hope is allright...

 

hey everybody !
updates...i was very sick yesterday,some problems with my back and my stomach ,but i was trying to work a little bit in spite of the bad feeling...
so i have started with the double shocks brackets...right know they are only pointed in place and will come another support member from the original shock bracket to the new upper shocks support. hope that today i am going to finish them and you could see them in the final stage
regarding the upper brackets mounting...they are not weld in and i am not thinking about that..just for the moment. i was trying to make everything bolted in not welded. so for the upper brackets i made 5 points of bolting: 2 are the original ones where were the upper A arms, 2 are along the chassis and there is another one which you can't see it from the pictures which is on the bottom of the chassis (when i am going to take appart everything for painting i am going to make explicit pics). and there will be another point (the 6th) with the shocks bracket ...so i hope that everything will stick togheter...if not...than i will weld everything in place (but hope not)...
regarding the ball joints...there are all ready made stoppers (i called them) for the upper travel and the down travel of the suspension. these are stopping the arms to travel up and down and limit the movement before the ball joints are reaching their limit (lower movement) and also to not force the shocks and the half drive shafts angle and for the upper movement it is the same
here are pics...