Does anybody know if the 5" kits are still made, has anybody bought one in the last few years since this post thread was started? I've been trying to get hold of a kit and sent to Australia but no luck as yet. Any help would be appreciated !

Kits are not available via Australia. They're not legal to sell there even to be shipped to the US. Must by from asia. Not sure if still available. Say hello to Yahoo/Google and let your fingers do the searching. Challenger/Triton are going to be part of your search terms. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Yeah been looking for about three weeks now, the closest I have found is a shop called ride off road in the Philippines which won't email me back. I'm just trying to find the actual manufacturer, or where somebody else has bought them from. Otherwise I'm gonna copy the kit and get it fabricated i think.

When I looked into this kit years ago, it was build in AUSTRALIA but was not legal to sell there due to your motor vehicle rules. They built them for the Thai army IIRC. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Read through this thread the info is there. The kit discussed in this thread is the "Sun" kit which is manufactured in Thailand (not AU). Contact the user "Lester" on the above posts. He's who assisted Dat on getting his delivered to the US. HTH No one in the US (that we know of) has bought and installed one since Dat did it. Your best bet if you cannot get ahold of lester is to search the Thai 4x4 boards. They still offer this kit there from what I could see from lurking around there not too long ago.

It's manufactured in Australia. I've personally spoken with the manufacturer directly before DAT bought his to help him purchase them. They export them to Thailand but do not sell them in Australia because of their DOT regulations don't allow them.

Why doesn't anyone post a link or contact info for this company?

Is it just cheaper to have Valley or Dever springs make a rear coil? How much of a lift can you go with the custom coil? 3" or 4"? Then just get custom HD torsion bars for same on front?

big sigh.........................


HD torsion bars wont give you any more lift than a stock crank
the reason no body makes a lift is:
*torsion bar mounts to the lower suspension arm
*welded rear torsion bar mounts
*very few people will buy them

every time someone asks this question i think, sure, you can run 40" tires now, but what about gears? I'd much much rather have deeper gears than some lift.
I have been thinking over a lift in my head. A 6" bracket lift that moves the front axle about 1.5-2" forward and a spring over rear. As long as I keep the stock geometry, it cant be any worse building an IFS lift than a SAS.
JMO
It would consttute a torsion bar drop(yeah i know) and droped steering box/idler/sway bar and the bracket drop would drop both upper and lowers with front and rear frame bracing

I also thought about custom stock geometry arms with either torsion bar mounts or a coil mount


blah blah blah you probably wont be able to get a lift, did i mention it cost $2000?

You can run 35's possible 37's with this kit. I doubt 40's unless you do some cutting.



There's always the 2.8x:1 or 3.15:1 xcase gears from Australia (marks 4wd)
Also, assuming the tranny/xcase combo is the same as the full sized Monty you may be able to get a Jeep xcase to fit.
As for R&P's 4.9's are already pretty decent. Most other trucks/4x4's don't go too far beyond that.
As for the cost, have you checked other IFS drop kit costs? About the same from what I've seen. Many are even higher. Problem right now is I'm not sure if the source for these still has them or if they've dried up. Lets face it this is an aging platform at this point and they may have stopped making them. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

you can fit 35/37s without a 5" IFS lift....whats the point of wasting the money

most trucks can go beyond 4.88(4.90) gears, its just the aftermarket, and for most, the gears and install kits for both axles is about $1000, not on a mitsubishi....

The transfer case isn't a big deal to me because of the mark gears and jeep swaps, have you priced out a flipped d300 and np231 crawlbox lately? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" /> I'd say mark gives you a good deal <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />

just saying you should consider your options, along with the prices, outcomes, goals, etc. SAS might be more money but look what you get in the end? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />