Peeps with LOW drift cars, esp with hooj skirts- How do you jack yours up?

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Stavros

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As title really. Been fucking about with mine, trying to find an easy way to at least do the rears, and there isnt one :euge:

Can remove skirts and then its no bother, but thats a lot of fucking about removing and refitting, and before long the holes that the screws holding it on go in to will get so bit the screws wont do shit :smash:

Even if drive the car up on to chocks the jack will get under the skirts but cant reach the jacking points before it crushes the skirts :smash:

At the back I can easily jack it off what I presume was where the spare wheel sits vertically on the standard car. It does crush it a bit though :smash: Wont be a prob though idve thought.

Aside from that, no fucking idea, need air jacks :no: Not sure what they did when it was in Japan, but then again it dont look like its ever been out in the wet, never mind anything else, so dont think it was used much.

The Chaser and all my previous cars wasnt as low and hovercrafty, so driving it up on to chocks was all that was needed, front or rear.

What do others do? Plenty of mega low hovercraft spec cars n here... :nod:
 
mr.jailbait said:
small block of wood on the jack
simple but effective
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Even with that it dont work, shouldve mentioned that one, soz.
Only a ultra low jack works even after driven it up the tallest chocks that go under the skirts (its 2in from ground), and that raises at a shallow enough angle it still hits :smash: Bloody cars!

Denting in the wheel well a little jacking off that isnt a prob is it? Dont bother me if its purely cosmetic.
 
Aaaages ago on here I can vaguely remember somebody posting up about a FC with a jack built into the boot that came out of the floor, and hey presto, no need to fuck about with bits of wood.

Too slow, Jord's already found the post!
 
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Dan H said:
Aaaages ago on here I can vaguely remember somebody posting up about a FC with a jack built into the boot that came out of the floor, and hey presto, no need to fuck about with bits of wood.

Too slow, Jord's already found the post!
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i was looking at halfords bottle jacks today and getting ideas... they have enough meat on them to drill into them and make a bracket on the chassis too.

stav, why are you jacking on the sills? just reverse it on blocks and jack it off the diff... make sure you don't jack off the backplate of the diff, make sure you are on the main body of it :thumbs:

next car i build for myself... AIR JACKS BITCHES.
 
Lead_foot said:
How about something like this?

Mustangworld - Build yourself some ramps !
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We was working out how to build one like that, and theres our answer! But thats ok for home work, not ideal to take to DWYBs for wheel changing, lol.

Jord said:
http://www.driftworks.com/forum/drifting-chat/52372-super-jack.html
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Wish there was pics to see how thats mounted, im slighlty confused where its meant to go.
But looking under the car at the 4 MASSIVE bolts which to me seems to purely hold the two standard towing eyes on under my FC, I did think you could attach a massive piece of metal between the two and jack off that.
Maybe thats where its meant to go?

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mitto said:
stav, why are you jacking on the sills? just reverse it on blocks and jack it off the diff... make sure you don't jack off the backplate of the diff, make sure you are on the main body of it :thumbs:

next car i build for myself... AIR JACKS BITCHES.
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Main alloy diff body DEFFO ok for that then? AS on some cars its meant to be a no no? Either way, I cant reach the fucker really! Used to be where I jacked my Chaser every time though.
And fuck me, id kill for air jacks, cant see where they would fit at the front of mine tho :no:
 
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Jord, thats cool as fuck. Wonder what that weighs? Not at all mounted how I expected though! Bet it costs a fucking bomb tho...

initial_j said:
so confused by this thread?

drive rears onto blocks of wood

jack up on the diff.

done!
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Trust me man, been that way on EVERY other car till this one! Far gayer and harder to reach the right places on this piece of poo! Bloody cars!
 
Stavros said:
Main alloy diff body DEFFO ok for that then? AS on some cars its meant to be a no no? Either way, I cant reach the fucker really! Used to be where I jacked my Chaser every time though.
And fuck me, id kill for air jacks, cant see where they would fit at the front of mine tho :no:
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tbh, i dont know, since i have no idea how thick the ally in question is... my cars retarded low now, so im gonna think of something for the job pronto. what about a bar between the chassis rails and two rachet axle stands?

hmmm... must create solution.
 
Stavros said:
Jord, thats cool as fuck. Wonder what that weighs? Not at all mounted how I expected though! Bet it costs a fucking bomb tho...



Trust me man, been that way on EVERY other car till this one! Far gayer and harder to reach the right places on this piece of poo! Bloody cars!
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so you can reach the diff? surely thats not right? or do they sit completly different to anything else? sounds weird
 
Oooh, 250 delivered for that crazy built in jack setup, not bad :thumbs:

mitto said:
tbh, i dont know, since i have no idea how thick the ally in question is... my cars retarded low now, so im gonna think of something for the job pronto. what about a bar between the chassis rails and two rachet axle stands?

hmmm... must create solution.
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Thats the thing, I know 100%, as ive seen em crack the main casing with my own eyes, that SOME alloy diff casings on certain cars are deffo not strong enough to jack from, and on mine, ive no idea, need to ask someone.

On the back of the FC there are 2 big bolts each side of the wheel well under the car, they seem to be just for the towing eyes. If they strong enough to tow with I reckon they prob strong enough to jack from?
So a big bar like you mentioned between em would work, and prob same on other cars too.

In fact, looking at those pics again that Jord put up, the aformentioned massive bolts are I think what that crazy jack thing bolts to....
 
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I've been doing some work on historic rally cars atm, and for jacking and keeping in the air, there's tubes welded into the chassis rails. They come out of the sills, and front + rear panels. You then slip your jack/axle stand, which has a smaller tube welded to it, into the car mounted tube, and lift it. Obviously it would require small holes in places but nothing noticeable.
 
I drive mine on tiles that are boltd together like a ramp, use a block of wood on the jack as mentioned and lift it... on the rear I can reach the diff. But mine isn't very lowwww
 
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