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Thanks for the comments all. It was a fun project.

Originally Posted by DSG2003Mach1

looks good!

Im about to pull the trigger on ordering my truck.

It'll probably end up with a small lift. My buddy just picked one up and got the Roush Stage 1 pack that has the stupid cold air and a tune but it supposedly keeps the warranty, pretty sweet when it picks up 100hp/150ft lbs on 93 from the little bit of reading Ive done so far

I really do like the new 10 speeds FWIW, I did disable the start/stop feature, after a couple of months of driving it I learned to really hate it; at first I thought it was ok, but the few times you decide to stomp on it and jump in front of a line of cars... well you figure out how to disable it forever.

If I do anything else I will change the downpipes, CAI and tune. I want to keep this thing quiet but right now it drives just fine. I have a toy for power.

Originally Posted by DSG2003Mach1

looked at your build thread, thats a much bigger lift than I would do but it does look good. Props for knocking that out on jackstands

Thanks! Part of me wanted to prove it could be done at home, someone told me they thought this was one project I could not handle... Challenge, Accepted!

Originally Posted by sutyak

I like the wheels. I personally think stock height on most trucks nowadays is high enough. It seems to lose symmetry going much higher. I'm not a "truck guy" though, so I don't know what truck guys look for other than height?

Thanks, just like other people that don't understand why we lower cars, at the end of the day you are correct in that you are a truck guy or not. I've always had a truck, the Mach is really my first major venture outside of the bed, err truck. I've had them small, low, large high and powerful. My favorite was my old SRT-10, will always have a special place that I do not know of a new truck that could ever replace it so I went a completely different approach.

Originally Posted by DSG2003Mach1

the stock height definitely has enough ground clearance in a lot of cases, I think the OP's lift is about as high as you go without looking funny.

A vendor of ours has a new F150, I think he said they put a 2.5" block in the front and replaced the stock 2" block in the rear with a 3" and it looks pretty damned good.

A lot of people just raise the front to get rid of the back to front rake done for MPG purposes

Thanks, and technically it is a 6" lift and I lowered the front a bit as it was visually to high for me, the Fox took the front up 7+", I took it down to a suspension gain of 5.75 (minus the tire size increase).

The reason I went for the bigger lift was actually more of an engineering issue. When you lift say 2.5", those are normally done with spacers, aka leveling kit. The problem with that is now all your suspension points are running at an angle that the mfg did not design for. With the 6" kits, you get new knuckles and your diff is dropped to keep all the angles at near if not the same factory angle, even the steering points are the same as they are higher on the new knuckles and I did not have to move the electronic rack. Look at some of those 4" lift guys, those bad boys have some aggressive angles.

As far as drivability; it handles better, although that is really only because of the stiffer suspension but it not bumpy. Since I added a good amount of weight to it, I needed to compensate with better shocks/springs. Heck, the cheap 6" lifts reuse the stock struts in the front, the stock struts were not up to par for the factory setup (to soft), cannot imagine what it would be like handling those wheels/tires.

Thanks all, this is really my only 'internet home' and liked sharing.

Now that I am done, I still have 4 more projects to complete. Mach, two Cudas and another truck... hmmmm.