for that price you best beat will be the 5" or 7.5" liuft from rough country. Pros are best bang for your buck. imo i would go with fabtech or bds but ive had both of those lifts and i swear by them

 

Ive got a procomp 6" lift on my truck and I think it handles awesome. Almost rides as well as my cadillac escalade ext. I had a skyjacker in an earlier full size blazer and was not impressed with that. Im not familiar with the others so just giving my 2cents.

 

I'm very happy with my Fabtech 6" lift. I read very good things about BDS and Pro Comp lifts, too.

 

I've done a fair bit of research on this across many forums and best bang for your buck seems to be BDS and Fabtech with Pro Comp and Skyjacker coming in shortly after. Often, may of the complains I've read with any seem to be the shocks that came with the lift which was easily fixed with some better shocks (i.e.Bilstein 5100s or something else). I've not read a lot of negative about the rough country lifts, but I commonly hear if you're on a tighter budget, you can get theirs and be fine. Don't go for tough country.

Sadly, I don't have experience with them since I haven't lifted my truck yet, but like I said, I've been searching around a lot to make sure I get exactly what I'm looking for.

Another thing to keep in mind is what you'll be using it for. If it won't be offroad much, then any of the above should be just fine for you. If you're planning to be offroad, you might want to save up just a bit more and make sure you get the best one you can for your money.

Lastly, if you're sold on 6" (as I am) the above hopefully helps. If you're interesting in looking at 4" you can look at SST and Readylift as well. I've read decent things and you could save a bit of money. You should still be able to clear 34s with the 4" without a problem. At worst you might need some minor trimming. This would depend on your wheels, offset, etc..

Hope this helps.

 

With 20" wheels I hope he's not planning to off-road a whole lot, as the larger the diameter of the wheel the lower the profile of the tire ... leaving less tire wall to protect your wheel investment should there be a puncture. I don't know that I'd want to air down a set of 20's, either.

 

I have 20s. I have a solution though. I'll get a stupid big lift and put some 46" super swampers on. Sure, my center of gravity won't be ideal, but my sidewall will be good.

I'm just kidding, yes, you're right. I'm planning to get 18s for my offroad set. I'd get smaller, but I'm planning on upgraded brakes and the ones I'm looking at have a minimum wheel of 18, so that's my limit.

 

My favotite lift is a Solid Axle Swap. :gasp: But untill that is done, a rough country leveling kit and 33x12.50x 17 are going in.

 

...and the ones I'm looking at have a minimum wheel of 18, so that's my limit.

Most (all?) big brake kits for our trucks require at least 18's.

 

Thats why they invented 20's and 22's

 

For big brake kits? I don't think so. Someone invented 20's (and larger) so that people with too much money and no taste could put them on cars and make them ridiculous looking. :rofl: And why not bleed people of their cash if they want to be stupid with it.

Case in point:

P.S. No issue with them on appropriately-lifted trucks.

 

Wow just WOW:gasp: that is terriable but i can still pull off the 20's or 22s but the owner of that car should be shot hung and burned

 

Surreal, shortly before I left the states, I saw a 94-96 Impala. It had to have been lifted at least 6 inches and had what looked to be 28s or 30s on it. I wanted to cry.. and laugh.. and cry again.

And one of the BBKs I was looking at had a min wheel size of 20. I'm not getting that because I don't want to run 20s on my offroad set. So I'm going to plan to get the ones with the min wheel size of 18. And as far as even my daily wheels, I personally wouldn't go over 20. I like having A/Ts show.

 

A BBK for 20's is likely intended for racing? I'd think so.... but I could see it getting use on 37" tires -- a tire size that might actually justify 20's or 22's and also provide adequate protection for them off-road.

 

That's what I was thinking, but I don't want to go beyond 35s for a daily. Even if I went with 37s for the offroad set, on 18s that'd just be extra sidewall. Though I did come across a Long travel suspension I'm tempted with. And some 37s and a BBK requiring 20s would sure make that thing fun in the desert. Now I'm just getting crazy though.

 

Thats way I'm doing a SAS, I want to run 37's or 40's.

 

I found a couple of trucks that were running 37s on the front IFS with a long travel suspension kit with 13-14" of travel. That's what made me start thinking. Obviously it's not cheap though. And they were 99-06 models. I've gotta believe the same companies could do something similar for a NNBS though.

 

I wouldn't even consider running 37's on IFS; that's asking for trouble.

 

http://www.dixonbrosracing.com/content/view/112/5/

That's what they were running with the 37s.

http://www.off-roadweb.com/features/1204or_2005_gmc_sierra_4x4_red_baron/index.html

And that's one of the trucks. I just came across it because they had an offroad magazine at the PX with a GM truck on the cover so I had to get it.

 

but you have to remeber thats a long travel kit its not the same as a list kit plus you have to get fiberglass fenders to get that size tire and its is over 6 grand by the time you by the lift shocks and if you cant do the work yourself you will also have to pay for labor

 

Oh I know all that. It's completely different. I know the thread took a bit of a turn. I think it actually took a couple turns off the original topic. I guess that's what happens when people just start talking...

Still, It'd be fun to play with.

 

id love to have a long travel on my chevy but i got the raptor for that and it is just one amazing truck its in a class of its own

 

I love the raptor. But since I really do love my truck, rather than paying the difference between selling mine and getting a raptor I decided that money was better spent fixing up my truck the way I want. It'll be a while before it's done, but I'm pretty sure I'll be happier having a truly unique truck. I'm not sure if I'll go the long travel route. That all depends on whether or not I realistically expect to be able to use the functionality over what the lift and coilovers would give me. I have time to figure that all out though.

 

That's pretty funny looking : )