Fuze911
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- Joined
- Jun 11, 2010
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- Location
- Owings Mills, MD, USA
- Car Year
- 2007
- Car Model
- Impreza Wagon 2.5L
- Transmission
- 4EAT
So after 2+ years of testing i guess ill reveal my $30 DIY Lift.
Please read this first: I know people are going to look at this with criticism and concern. And thats fine because i am not responsible for anything that could go wrong if you try to do this to your Subaru. This was all done for pure FUN and it just so happened to work and work very well on and off road.
This car was my daily driver for two years with plenty of city and highway driving, hitting potholes, flying over speed-bumps, drifting in the snow, countless mountain bike trips with the car loaded and a couple camping and offroading trips with the car packed to the absolute brim. But most important offroad trips.
So you can try this to your car if you like, or you can just look at this and say what you will. Either way, its been awesome and i love it.
Ok so to start i did a TON of research and what caught my eye was the older model Subarus that people lifted with 2" metal blocks cut from a steel tube. I even spotted a new subaru lifted with this method online. So i started to think...
When i had an Astro van i wanted to do a 2" body lift on it and remembered that you can get really cheap body lift blocks made out of a super hard plastic here: https://zoneoffroad.com/
I went with 12 2" blocks that look like this:
Went to tractor supply and got some grade 8, 3" long hardware. Total for lift blocks and hardware was around $32.00.
Then i went to work. Since the blocks are wide i had to trim them a little in a couple spots to fit them over the strut tops.
10 had to be cut like this:
and 2 like this: (these are for the rear struts, one on each side.)
Knocked out the old studs:
Should look like this when they are placed ontop the strut with the new hardware in.
Here they are all tightened up with locking washers:
Then, I got 4 heavy duty camber bolts like the pair on the right:
(dont mind those numbers, that pic isnt mine)
Here are some before and afters.
Back:
Front:
Side view:
!
Please read this first: I know people are going to look at this with criticism and concern. And thats fine because i am not responsible for anything that could go wrong if you try to do this to your Subaru. This was all done for pure FUN and it just so happened to work and work very well on and off road.
This car was my daily driver for two years with plenty of city and highway driving, hitting potholes, flying over speed-bumps, drifting in the snow, countless mountain bike trips with the car loaded and a couple camping and offroading trips with the car packed to the absolute brim. But most important offroad trips.
So you can try this to your car if you like, or you can just look at this and say what you will. Either way, its been awesome and i love it.
Ok so to start i did a TON of research and what caught my eye was the older model Subarus that people lifted with 2" metal blocks cut from a steel tube. I even spotted a new subaru lifted with this method online. So i started to think...
When i had an Astro van i wanted to do a 2" body lift on it and remembered that you can get really cheap body lift blocks made out of a super hard plastic here: https://zoneoffroad.com/
I went with 12 2" blocks that look like this:

Went to tractor supply and got some grade 8, 3" long hardware. Total for lift blocks and hardware was around $32.00.
Then i went to work. Since the blocks are wide i had to trim them a little in a couple spots to fit them over the strut tops.

10 had to be cut like this:

and 2 like this: (these are for the rear struts, one on each side.)

Knocked out the old studs:

Should look like this when they are placed ontop the strut with the new hardware in.

Here they are all tightened up with locking washers:


Then, I got 4 heavy duty camber bolts like the pair on the right:
(dont mind those numbers, that pic isnt mine)

Here are some before and afters.
Back:


Front:


Side view:

!
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