# Raise a car 1/4"
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [April 9, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336 "2012-04-09T10:19:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/21 "2012-04-09T14:54:52Z")
> [@Evo= GTI](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/evo-gti/49008/41):
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> They make these for the subarus [Saggy Butt Spacers 2008-2021 WRX/STI - FastWRX.com](http://www.fastwrx.com/sabusp.html)
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> here is a good pick of my suspension. Nothing is changing just new shocks/struts
Just read through this thread and was going to suggest those as we use them on the subaru rally cars often.
don’t want to use just washers over the studs as that will concentrate the weight of the car on very small points which will eventually fail. need to distribute the load over the entire surface like those spacers do.
Mike’s got you covered, I’d just get ahold of him and have them whipped up in a jiffy.
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### Author:  [@toomanycamaros](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/toomanycamaros)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/22 "2012-04-09T15:56:44Z")
> [@Official: NHL Playoff Thread](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-nhl-playoff-thread/46500/585):
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> If you can bring me a cardboard template of the strut top, or the strut top itself, I can make you a quick spacer from some 1/4 plate with the plasma and drill press in 30 mins.
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> make those saggy butt things, just out of steel.
^ do this. Like previously stated the whole washer idea is a very bad idea.
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### Author:  [@slwrthnu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slwrthnu)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/23 "2012-04-09T17:59:05Z")
> [@Summer START @ Dunnville Review / Pic's / Vid's / Thank You Thread!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/summer-start-dunnville-review-pics-vids-thank-you-thread/49001/281):
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> Just keep scraping it until it doesn’t scrape anymore :lol
sounds like the best possible solution to me.
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/24 "2012-04-09T18:53:13Z")
New tires.
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### Author:  [@SRS\_BZNS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRS_BZNS)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/25 "2012-04-09T19:00:38Z")
Tried new tires. The added 1/2" to diameter to get the 1/4" height causes bad rubbing in places i can’t bfh. Or adjust to not rub
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/26 "2012-04-09T19:02:29Z")
Damn dude, that would have been a perfect solution too. Good luck.
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### Author:  [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/27 "2012-04-09T19:02:43Z")
new apartment
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### Author:  [@SRS\_BZNS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRS_BZNS)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/28 "2012-04-09T19:13:55Z")
Its not even so much the driveway as it is that extra 1/4"height really will add to the driveability
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/29 "2012-04-09T19:17:14Z")
Do different years of them have different style tophats? I know miatas do. You could gain some height there if there are different ones. Someone could definitely make you some but they’d be waaaay expensive. What you posted for the suby would probably work if you could find someone to make them.
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### Author:  [@Ollie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ollie)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/30 "2012-04-10T08:02:23Z")
The washer idea is a good one. just reverse what this guy did
:rofl
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### Author:  [@SRS\_BZNS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRS_BZNS)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/31 "2012-04-10T08:45:34Z")
WTF?
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### Author:  [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/32 "2012-04-10T09:02:59Z")
> [@Here's why you shouldn't sag your pants. LOLVID.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heres-why-you-shouldnt-sag-your-pants-lolvid/49089/20):
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> WTF?
stancers will stance :rofl
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### Author:  [@Ollie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ollie)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 9:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/33 "2012-04-10T09:11:33Z")
lol this guys repping hard for stanceworks
> **[Stanceworks News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Jalopnik](https://jalopnik.com/tag/stanceworks)**
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> Monterey Car Week Is Best Experienced In A 1972 Porsche 911
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### Author:  [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/34 "2012-04-10T09:17:07Z")
hahahahah
thats one better than me putting 2x4 chunks between the coils on my old ass subaru legacy to make a lift kit! hahahahaha They worked great until you get air born and they droop and fall out! lol
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### Author:  [@cazwrx187](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cazwrx187)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/35 "2012-04-10T09:31:37Z")
oh wow
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### Author:  [@SRS\_BZNS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRS_BZNS)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/36 "2012-04-10T11:43:52Z")
Found my answer.
These around the bottom of the spring seat. .562 inch height fairly universal, rubber. Designed mainly for cars with sagging springs they go int between th coils and installed that way are supposed to lift the front end an 1" because the creation more spring tension on the sagging springs. Installed at the spring seat they should only lift the car the .562 inch height. Perfect for me
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### Author:  [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/37 "2012-04-11T08:13:05Z")
the thing I would worry about is this…
The cup molded into the bottom of the strut body, that cradles the spring, that that rubber johnson would sit in, would now put the bottom most coil on the spring ABOVE or damn close to above the top of the molded cup on the strut body. Long sentence but I think you know what I am trying to say.
So, if there is any bind in the upper mount and steering the car wants to twist the spring, its just asking to kick the coil spring out of that rubber thing, since there isnt a steel lip to retain the spring on the strut body.
Unless you tackwelded a few tabs on the side to prevent that after you installed that rubber guy.
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### Author:  [@Ollie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ollie)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2012, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/38 "2012-04-11T10:07:35Z")
> [@OFFICIAL '08 Nissan GTR Thread \*now with test results\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-08-nissan-gtr-thread-now-with-test-results/37482/250):
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> Designed mainly for cars with sagging springs they go int between th coils and installed that way are supposed to lift the front end an 1" because the creation more spring tension on the sagging springs. Installed at the spring seat they should only lift the car the .562 inch height. Perfect for me
I don’t understand that… Do you mean putting one above and one below the spring? How does that create spring tension? Or do you mean inbetween binding coils maybe lol idk. Jw how that’s supposed to work
Anyway I’d just use a flanged spring seat grommet. Pref hard rubber or urethane. order/trim it to fit and slice it to match the spring seat. I guess the spring could still spin and push it out like mike said unless your suspension is like mine and only droops like .5" Lol
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### Author:  [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2012, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/39 "2012-04-11T10:12:28Z")
pair of these in the springs:
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### Author:  [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2012, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/raise-a-car-1-4/263336/40 "2012-04-11T10:24:02Z")
Ron, I wouldnt fuck with the spring, just working with spring compressors is bad enough. Just get something to space the top of the strut mount from the strut tower.
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