Knock the 3 studs out of the.People also askVitara, Grand Vitara. I also ordered the wrong bracket for the front-diff, but all said and done, I had the full kit ready to install a month and a half after I ordered it.Open the hood and remove the nuts holding the struts to the body and remove the struts Remove the strut bushings. They forgot to ship me my super-flex johnny joints and I had to run around to get them to ship me those providing pictures and videos. ( Notice the difference in height) Picture of Rear Lift Kit and front lift kit installed A whopping 4 inches lift Our end product with kit installedI ordered the Altered Ego 4.5” lift with the Superflex option right around the middle of April, Altered Ego had it delivered to me in early May. CALL 97488061 FOR MORE INFO Time for some Pictures Comparision of Lift kit before installation. Top R 9 point adjustable Lift Kit For New Grand Vitara.
If it wasn’t for me breaking the c-clip inside the diff and needing to drain that, find the broken c-clip and then driving to the auto-parts store for a replacement CV shaft, we probably could have finished the front portion of the lift in 3-4 hours. It didn’t help that I went against what Altered Ego suggested and tried using my 2” lifted Old Man Emu struts, those push the axle way too far down, next weekend I’ll be installing the recommended stock height struts.It took us about 6 hours to install the front part of the lift, which included the front arms, diff relocation brackets as well as the the strut drop brackets up top. Not sure if I’m a fan of that yet. Front Lift KitThe brackets that relocate the front axle, moved it over 0.25” towards the driver side and way down, which required some shaving down of the bottom of the axle so that it wouldn’t hit the cross member. There were several pieces that I had no idea what were for, and had to reach out to Altered Ego for clarification, luckily on install day I had a friend helping that knew what he was doing.The install of the Altered Ego 4.5” Lift Kit with Superflex Option on my 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara went fairly smooth. The instructions were very rough around the edges, you can take a look yourself, but an image or two would have made it a lot easier to follow along.
If it wasn’t for James helping me, I’d still be sitting there today trying to figure out how to mount these. The mystery brackets turned out to be the shock relocation brackets, which required 2 holes on each side to be drilled. They also send you an extended brake line kit for the back, with some mystery brackets. Their panhard bar relocation bracket is also a great addition to the lift kit, it’s just one less thing you can have to worry about. It turns out that the Superflex option Altered Ego offers on their 4.5” lift kit are just 4 trail gear creeper joints.
I’m currently running 245/75/16r tires, when these wear out, I’m feeling confident I’ll be able to fit 265/75/16r tires on my Grand Vitara. 5” left if I want to go further back with the rear axle. It moved my front axle 1.5” forward, and the rear axle is currently adjusted to sit 1” further back over stock, I have. The directions also stated to drill out all link mounting holes on the axle to 1/2″ and to use their 1/2″ hardware, I only received 2 nuts and 2 bolts that were half an inch so I stayed with the stock hardware because it was basically the same size as the hardware they sent.Overall, I’m very happy with the look of this lift kit.
Altered Ego 4.5″ lift kit front tire clearance on a 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara with 245/75/16r tires Altered Ego 4.5″ lift kit gives me almost 19″ of rock rail clearance on a 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara with 245/75/16r tires and 2″ body lift Altered Ego 4.5″ lift kit on a 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara has 13.5″ of clearance on the frame with 245/75/16r tires Altered Ego 4.5″ lift kit on a 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara has 12″ of clearance on the front diff with 245/75/16r tires Altered Ego 4.5″ lift kit installed on a 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara that has a 2″ body lift
For the Altered Ego 4.5” Lift Kit with the Superflex option including shipping I paid right around $2300 US Dollars. Just google around for stories. Calmini sells their lift kit for $1300 shipped, granted you’re ordering from Calmini so you will never receive the product you pay for.
It’s as comfortable as my Suzuki Samurai was on the Asian Auto Parts full length YJ spring conversion.I can’t thanks James enough for helping me install the lift, Myron for letting us use his shop with a lift, it made the install that much smoother, Paul for lending us a hand in the morning, and all the guys at Myron’s shop that answered our questions where we could find tools. I haven’t had a chance to take it offroad yet, but driving down the street over speed bumps and pot holes, it literally floats over them. At first the 2.5″ Old Man Emu lift kit was fairly stiff, but after I broke in the springs it was one of the smoother riding lift kits I’ve installed off the shelf.I do have to admit, the Altered Ego 4.5″ Grand Vitara lift with Superflex options is by far the smoothest riding lift, I’ve driven.
The giveaway that my altered ego controls were bent, funky camber. The Altered Ego control arms bent right where the ball joint sits. I bent both of my Altered Ego controls arms right at where the ball joint connects. 9 Month Update with my Alter Ego 4.5″ Lift Kit for the Suzuki Grand VitaraWent to the dunes last month, and maybe I had a little too much fun in the Grand Vitara. Here’s a shot of the driver side arm of the Altered Ego 4.5″ lift on my 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara with a Monroe strut.Here’s a comparison of a stock height strut vs. 5-.7 positive camber, the alignment shop will be able to tell a lot better than I can.
Grand Vitara Lift Kit Ation Cracked Down On
When looking at what went wrong for the arms to fail, I noticed the springs were coil binding before bump stops ever were close to full compression, so something had to give. All the crossing over the dunes and the chopped up sand was too much for the altered ego arms. I had a friend there in another Grand Vitara that led the way, and he didn’t have an issue with his stock control arms. The welds also cracked down on the reinforcements.I wasn’t the easiest on the Grand Vitara, but I don’t think I drove it nearly hard enough to bend control arms.
I ordered them on February 10th, and they showed up at my door March 24th. When I talked to them they told me they never heard of anything doing something like this, but they were working on a new version of these arms that are reinforced a little more. So instead of trying to fix these arms myself, and then spending a year chasing alignment issues, I gave them my credit card and ordered another set of $650 arms. Here are all the failure points on the 4.5″ Alter Ego Control Arms on my 2000 Suzuki Grand VitaraI called Altered Ego hoping they were still under warranty, turns out their warranty is only for 6 months, I was at 8 months.
But I guess I’ll figure that out soon enough. Not yet sure exactly what that means for ride comfort, or bottoming out. With the first version of arms, the springs had roughly 12″ of room, with the new arms, the springs are down to 10.5″. Turns out they didn’t just reinforce them, they changed the geometry quite a bit.
Original Alter Ego Control Arm and the 2020 Reinforced Version of the Alter Ego Control for the Suzuki Grand Vitara Here are the comparison pictures with both the original version of the Alter Ego Lift Kit Control arm, and the new 2020 Reinforced Version of the control arm. 3″ lower on the frame with these new arms.
2020 and original version of the Alter Ego 4. The Original Alter Ego Control Arm that came with the 4.5″ Alter Ego Lift Kit for the Suzuki Grand Vitara. Reinforced Alter Ego Control Arm for the 4.5″ Lift Kit that comes for the Suzuki Grand Vitara Some more cracked welds on the Alter Ego Control Arm Original Alter Ego Control Arm on the Left and Reinforced 2020 Version of the Alter Ego Control Arm on the right.
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