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Old 10-01-2012 | 09:14 PM
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Lift kit options?

Is there any spring/strut combination on the market that actually raises the height of the car? Are there any springs that are a direct fit and can give a car another 1-3" of clearance?

On the same topic, will 2001 MDX wheels bolt up to the stock suspension? They are 235/65/17, I am not sure about offset but I think it is 37.

To answer the obvious question that "my car is slammed LOL, can't enter gas station LOL, but its cool" crowd may have. Arizona has a lot of outdoor activities and beautiful places to go to, I have the time and financial ability to visit them. My work assignment mandates that I have another year left in AZ. I can buy me a range rover or a 1998 5.9 Jeep, but that is not financially prudent. Instead of spending 5-7k on the jeep, I can spent $1,000 on Acura and to accomplish the same thing. I have taken TL everywhere I wanted to go so far and she made it just fine. Every place people with jeeps went, I went too. The only thing hurting the TL was the ground clearance.

In my country, roads are crappy; and until 1992 people used their FWD and RWD under-powered cars to drive through ice, mud, and snow. America just happens to subsidize the gasoline prices so it has the most 4x4 vehicles of any nation in the world, with 99% of those vehicles never venturing past the Walmark parking lot.

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Old 10-01-2012 | 11:16 PM
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None that I'm aware of. You must consider, the market for that isn't there. But you'll need more clearance with the MDX wheels to account for when the suspension articulates, ect.
Old 10-02-2012 | 01:23 AM
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ROFL Thats a First!
I believe you can go Full Air Bags and it will give you a shit ton of Clearance!
Old 10-03-2012 | 07:46 AM
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Check out some of the newer AWD models, as they possibly interchange ?
Old 10-03-2012 | 11:47 AM
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you could try spring spacers. i have no idea how they would affect the ride or off road performance though.
Old 10-03-2012 | 11:49 AM
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this is what i mean

http://www.jegs.com/i/Mr-Gasket/720/1281/10002/-1
Old 10-03-2012 | 05:31 PM
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Check with our "Black Market" vendors. I'm sure that they would have the specs for our coils and would be able to recommend something that would give you what you're looking for.
It's just a matter of knowing the coil diameter and then maybe adding an extra tension coil for the height. Perhaps the "MDX" springs ?
Old 10-04-2012 | 12:25 PM
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I thought stock was already high enough.
Old 10-04-2012 | 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by 3.2TLc
Check with our "Black Market" vendors. I'm sure that they would have the specs for our coils and would be able to recommend something that would give you what you're looking for.
It's just a matter of knowing the coil diameter and then maybe adding an extra tension coil for the height. Perhaps the "MDX" springs ?
That is what I was thinking ^^. I will speak to the local suspension shops to see if they have an in-stock "brick" and coil spacers.
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