Put a lift on my wife's 2008 WK

Potlickinpirate, DangerMouse and I put a lift on my wife's WK yesterday AFTER all of the festivities out at Gruene. Whew. What a day. We didn't finish until 2:30am. Thanks again guys. We sure burned the midnight oil. Good thing we had that Belizean One barrel rum!

Overall, it came out pretty well. The diesel motor didn't notice the bigger tires.

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Nice!

Mo Bettah!!!!

Hey - that looks FANTASTIC!

Whoa, that is nice..... If I would've known you guys were gonna be doing this I would've sent wife and kids home by themselves and stuck around to help.

"It should be a real easy kit to install"...............famous last words

Looks great! So, Tim does it pass the "I have to drive it too" (your test). Good job.

Thanks everyone. Todd, good meeting you. Believe me though, you were better off going home. As DM said, "it should be a really easy install." Yeah right. The directions said 3 hours. It took about 6.

Hey Randy, I guess that's because it's a diesel, right? lol.

To answer the question about the drive test, it drives really well. My wife told me this morning that she loves the way it drives. That's about all that matters!

Looks great! Very nice!!

Wow, that actually looks great! I didn't know the current generation Grands could look good...

Looks great.

thebigtman wrote:

.... The diesel motor didn't notice the bigger tires.

The lift / tires look great but you really should put a Hemi in it for her...

BTW, I'll take the diesel off your hands

What a difference. Tim, we really need to talk...

Joe, if I put a hemi in there, she'd kill me. She loooooves her diesel.

Ian - no problem. We can set you up.

Looks Good

damn that looks good. How much lift did you go with? what size tires did you swap under there?









...... mmmm, diesel power. same torque as the 5.7 hemi

lookin damn good

Thanks guys. The tires measure out to 31.6" (265/70/17). I had to mod the pinch seam up front to clear the tires at full stuff and turned. The lift is 2.5" but it actually was closer to 3" up front b/c of the rake.

Any wheel spacer? did you do the pinch weld and cutting the bolt mods?

I did wheel spacers and the pinch weld mod. Negative on the "cut the bolt" mod. I didn't need it with the spacers.

Hemi_Tim aka thebigtman wrote:

I did wheel spacers and the pinch weld mod. Negative on the "cut the bolt" mod. I didn't need it with the spacers.

Cool thanks! Eventually I might go with the same setup. What programer did you used to calibrate the speedo?

Thanks!

I didn't reprogram it. It really wasn't enough of a difference to justify the cost of buying something. I think Superlift used an AEV programmer for their WK lifts.

That looks great, this is the first Grand of the new generation I have seen lifted. I like it!