Hey i am wanting to start a build on a 1200 ute but before i do buy one i want to just get some ideas. I have already got some ideas thought up, i want to get a maddat hard lid, SSR MKI's as the rear wheels on the car and then SSR MKIII's on the front, flair guards and also lower plus stretch tires. I pretty much just want to see some pics of your utes or any others that you have seen to see whats be done to them to get some ideas so please so me your 1200 utes JDM style
thanks

This photo below shows the guards, low and front kit i want to do also the colour is pretty nice too.

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Stuarts Sunny Truck needs a drop in height but it's not bad.

yeah ive seen that one on here before he's got that worked a12 aye?
nice looking ute

According to what youve said you wanted to do its gonna cos a fair bit and take a while to build. Its also not that easy to slam a ute that low, nit as simple as lowered springs.

thanx mate.. i got a lot of ideas and info from web pages, 1 of my fav = http://beeoneoneoh.com/the-cream/

BTW. my ute is just at the legal hight for South Aus by 5mm.. (310mm front and 295mm rear)

yeah ben ive added it all up and by the end off it all it will cost me up to 15k to build the whole thing, what is the process of lowering the utes?
thanks heaps mate


Stuart your car is mint love the looks of it, how did u lower yours and would u know how long i can go in nsw or do u no where i can find it out. That link is awsome as some really good ideas
thanks heaps mate

i mean how low i can go in nsw or do u no where i can find it out hahahaah
thanks mate

To go that low is going to be unroadworthy to start with, but to get it that low the easiest and cheapest way is shortened struts in the front preferably in the form of coilovers, and reset leafs in the rear. There are other more complex ways to do it aswell, like using a completely different front end set-up like s13 and then getting all the parts associated with making it low. The rear end, theres just infinite different things you could do depending on the price range.

This is Greendog's ute which has pretty much just lowered standard suspension, bit more to it but yeah....






Legal height in NSW is 100mm off the ground on the lowest part of the car.

the legle limit in qld is 100mm at the lowest point which excludes backing pates for brake rotors or unless the car came from standared lower than 100mm at the lowest point also you can only reduce the distance from the bump stops to were it meets by 1/3. and as for 15k that'll goes fast because you'll want to do more things than you originally dicided on doing and you will spend lots of money on things you never thought you would like getting bolts re zinced and things like that. im not trying to talk you out of it im just saying nothing ever goes to plan like you think it will.

yeah ben thanks heaps for your help. ive seen that ute before thats what i want to pretty much achieve somthing like that.

harrison thanks heaps for all that info i think i will just have to gather more info before i do my build aye haahah