After seeing this truck... calling Daystar's spring spacer kit a 'lift', is sorta like calling a row boat an aircraft carrier!!



For those of you that subscribe to the 'bigger-is-better' school of design, this has gotta be the cat's meow for '04 F-150 lifts (so far). Personally, if I were wanting to go this big on a lifted Ford, I would be thinking SuperDuty -- not an IFS F-150 -- but hey, to each their own...

This kit comes from a company called Whiplash Suspensions. They don't currently offer a smaller '04 F-150 lift. Not much info or photos on their web site. For $2,699 (save $100) this is their parts list:

"FRONT BOXES INCLUDE: Steering Components, Compression Struts, Coil Over Drop Brackets, Front And Rear Cross Members, A-arm Drop Brackets And All Differentral Support Brackets"

See their web site here.

 

Thats hilarious. I guess instead of parking in the garage I could just drive on top of it. Too bad I would have to climb out my second story window to get into that truck. Someone throw down the rope latter!

 

A real life Jungle Gym for the big boys!!!

One would have to leave for work 15 minutes earlier because of getting into the truck.

Instead of the 2 second rule while driving you would have to give yourself a 1 minute rule becuase there is so much blind spot that you could probably pull up behind one of our F150's and not see it.

 

[copying from the dupe thread, so that thread can be deleted]





Oh yeah, I remember posting those pics BrewMaster... especially the guy looking at the instructions for lauching himself in to the cab! Those pics were from the SEMA show, but there were some other pics of the same truck floating around. That 'saw horse' in the front of extreme lifted IFS trucks has always looked goofey to me. IIRC, the lift on the red truck is also from Whiplash. Six to eight inches is probably as big as I would ever consider for an F-150.

 

here are the rest from the duplicate thread.

 

 

All of the above pics are courtesy of zacky in this old thread.

 

Talk about leaving for work early just to get in the truck, you would also have to add another hour just to stop at all the gas stations on the way. What kind of mileage you think it gets, 4 mayby 5 gallons per mile? It still looks good though.

 

I can't imagine it gets too good of gas mileage, but when you drop almost $3k just for the lift plus installation (not to mention tires, wheels, steering stabalizer, trac bars, etc), you can afford the gas I think.

 

I am looking for a minimum14" lift up to a 22" for my wife's 2010 navigator and have only been told that whiplash has a 14" one but have yet to find it or I've also been told I will have to have a custom made one done. Can anyone help?

 

This is a 10 year old thread- so there may be a chance custom may be the option nowadays

 

Hell of a thread bump. I enjoy reading very old threads to see what was going on back then, and this one is no exception. Pretty cool seeing such a ridiculously high lift on the first production year of this body style.