Chuck Meglio is My Hero

I’ll be honest. There have been times when we have questioned this car. We aren’t smart enough to really question our own abilities to do this… Just the car.

It is too low. 2 Inches of clearance from the ground. It won’t crawl mud. No way.

Well, that all changed this week.

At this point I have to give a shout out to MetalNerd.com . Chuck Meglio, and his wife Brenda are amazing.

Chuck ( I am assuming Chuck is doing all the fabrication there… Maybe that is sexist. Brenda, I’m Sorry!)

Anyway… Chuck… Is quite simply an amazing machinist. The lift kit we bought came with each piece lovingly wrapped in newspaper, cushioned gently inside the box.

When we unwrapped the first spacer, all of us just spent about 5 minutes examining the beautiful workmanship that went into these things… They were amazing.

And to top it all off, when we went to lift… Everything fit. Perfectly. And the engineering is genius… Changing the strut alignment so it sits further back in the rear to reduce over-extension of the strut. Friggin. Genius.

Now… Chuck himself warned us that this lift is not made for off-roading. I get that. It is a spacer kit, so when the suspension drops out over a hole the strut is taking all that stress from the extension.

We signed a waiver to get this kit. We understand the danger. Chuck even offers a deposit return of $100 if you get an alignment after the lift install, but we aren’t going to ask for that. (We are getting the alignment, though.)

He didn’t intend it for what we are going to do with it.

But guys… This is the Gambler… And this is the lift… So ya’ll better hold my beer.

Our plan is to use some limiting straps (Reads chains we are going to weld in.) to prevent the suspension from taking damage. Hopefully, that is going to do the trick.

If you are wondering what that looks like… This is a picture I found of some limiting chains on a damn razer.

BUT… Wall of text aside… THE FRIGGIN LIFT IS IN. THE TIRES ARE IN. WE GOT THEM INSTALLED.

AND THEY ARE SMOKING! BEAUTIFUL! THEY WERE DANGEROUS TO INSTALL!

But really, it was pretty easy. Not nearly as hard as we thought it would be… And we easily got 5 inches out of the tires and lift. Here are some more pics

We had the seats out, so we took it for a drive with a cinder block for a seat. It’s awesome. I think we have a video somewhere I will try to post…

We still have a lot of work to do, but this really makes the whole thing seem possible. Everybody has been working really hard and this feels pretty good. We ain’t even raced yet.

Hold my beer, ya’ll… This shit is happening.