Subaru owners: Let's see your expedition rigs!

[Beentheredoingthat]

1999 Subaru Legacy Outback

This was at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky in October 2015. We are headed to Overland Expo West in a couple of weeks...
1999 Subaru Legacy Outback
Manual Trans.

 

[freshlikesushi]

Most lifts on Subarus are spacer and/or spring lifts.

On older models, you can find long travel coil overs with 24cm stroke front and 26cm or a bit more at the rear.

most dont want to spend 1400 for a coilover system. thats why

 

[fike]

Not mine but I thought the pictures of the Subaru's built by LP Adventure in Quebec would be appreciated here.
http://lpaventure.com/en/
https://www.facebook.com/lpaventure/?fref=photo

I'm not sure I am impressed with those "skid plates" attached to a 1" tubular grill guard. I think that is giving a false sense of security. I like the tubular grill guard as a brush guard, but it's not going to take any kind of rock pounding that is implied when you add skid plates.

It is kind of bad@$$ though.

 

[jf1sf5]

most dont want to spend 1400 for a coilover system. thats why

Maybe…but my answer was about different lift possibilities, not money !

 

[Hondaslayer]

most dont want to spend 1400 for a coilover system. thats why

Considering that a suspension lift affects axle angles and a body lift leaves the axle angles (mostly) stock....


Yeah, there's a lot more to it than people being cheap.

 

[LionZoo]

There are rally coilovers, but those are custom jobs, and they run at least $2k. Not to mention it's a pain getting the builder to actually sit down and build you a system. I tried to get an allwheelsdriven coilover for my Forester, but after promising to get back to me multiple times, but never actually doing so, I just ended up allocating the money to getting carbon-carbon brakes for my Elise (yes, totally different application).

 

[freshlikesushi]

Considering that a suspension lift affects axle angles and a body lift leaves the axle angles (mostly) stock....


Yeah, there's a lot more to it than people being cheap.

for you maybe.

5th gen i can get a good 4 inches out of the front with no issues and in the rear i can get about the same with some custom trailing arms and a 2" subframe drop.

I looked into providing a coilover setup, but the customer base for the 2k total price tag it would cost wasnt there factoring in the subframe spacers and trailing arms.

 

[Hondaslayer]

Oooohhkay.

And just what do you think that "subframe drop" is.

Oh, right. Body spacers.

 

[freshlikesushi]

Go away if you are going to be an ************.
Subframe spacers are there to correct geometry. With a coilover setup you still get the travel.

 

[Hondaslayer]

Go away if you are going to be an ************.
Subframe spacers are there to correct geometry. With a coilover setup you still get the travel.

So you are saying that your coilovers do adversely affect suspension geometry.

 

[Dake21]

Oooohhkay.

And just what do you think that "subframe drop" is.

Oh, right. Body spacers.

This.

You do gain 4 inches of body clearance but your true ground clearance (ground to diff) is only a gain of 2'' because of your 2'' sub frame drop.

 

[DanCooper]

At the base of Donnelly Dome, Alaska

 

[freshlikesushi]

2015 outback and TCteardrop by Grant Wilson, on Flickr

 

[jimmypop]

mine today on BF

 

[brianpark]

mine today on BF

How do you like having a light bar up there? Any glare issues? Which way did you wire it up?

I've been thinking about doing something similar.
-bp