The Bits4Vits' Vit has a 4" Suspension Lift, bigger than normal for a lifted Vitara, but it came about kinda by accident... When I abandoned the "Stumpy" GV project, I had some Old Man Emu +1.2" / +30mm Lift Springs left over, so I recycled them and fitted them to the Bits4Vits Vit, now consider that...

... GV Springs are +1.5" / +38mm taller then Vitara springs and higher rated too, see the picture above - the 4 springs in the middle are GV springs, and the two outer ones are Vitara ones for comparisson, and the Old Man Emu ones are +1.2" / +30mm uprated too! ;)

So, looking at the back setup we have an Old Man Emu +25mm GV Lift Spring with a Bits4Vits +1.25" / 32mm spring spacer, giving approximately 4" of lift. The +2" / +50mm Old Man Emu rear shock absorbers also have +2" / +50mm Bits4Vits Stainless Steel Shock Extensions on the top too...

There's also a full set of Bits4Vits Polyurethane Bushes on the rear too.

The front suspension setup... read on! ;)

During the build I thought I might as well replace all the shock absorbers, I did think of fitting +1.55" / +40mm Old Man Emu front struts on the Vit, but being as I want the Vit to be a rolling advert / catalogue I elected not to, as I would not have been able to run Bits4Vits Strut Spacers and the longer struts, so I found some Monroe Adventure gas front struts on eBay for half the price of the Old Man Emu ones, and fitted them with...

... Bits4Vits +57mm / +2.25" Strit Spacers - notice the extra height compared to the +38mm / +1.5" Strut Spacers that Bits4Vits normally sell? I normally only recommend and sell +38mm / +1.5" Strut Spacers as any more strut spacing will allow the struts, and hence the wishbones, to droop to low, forcing the driveshafts to work outside their normal working angles, resulting in premature driveshaft damage.

BUT, I can afford the run bigger strut spacers on the Vit because I'm using...

... VTTR's +1" / +25mm front axle drop brackets (supplied by Bits4Vits of course!) These lower the front of the diff down by 1" / 25mm and allow the driveshafts to work within angles similar to what they were designed to take...

Here are the drop brackets holding the Steel Front Axle - more on that elsewhere ;)

Due to the changes in suspension geometry, caused by the fitment of bigger springs and/or strut spacers, the wishbones have dropped a bit, making the angle of the struts move out slightly at the bottom and making the wheels have positive camber, i.e. the wheels look a bit like this \--o--/ so the camber bolts are used to replace the top strut bolts, and being as they have a cam machined into the shank of the bolt, when the heads are twisted you can see the strut move in and out, correcting the camber, as the cam does it's job very effectively.

Turning our attention back to the rear...

... we can see a Bits4Vits Rear Axle Heim Joint Spacer Block - that's a +2" / +50mm solid block of steel that is CNC shaped to space the axle down, which aids articulation and restores the angle of the Heim / A-arm...

Also note the Bits4Vits 1" / 25mm propshaft spacer... I often get asked why we fit rear prop spacers, and I think this next picture explains it perfectly -

When the Vitara has been lifted, the axle has dropped and the propshaft has effectively had to lengthen at the same time, and then only sliding joint within the rear prop' is where it enters the back of the transfer box, you can see in the above picture where the rear prop' has been pulled out so much you can see the shiny splined joint machining under the prop's dust cover... So we fit a Bits4Vits  Universal Prop Spacer to slide the prop' back to the thin yellow line, the yellow arrow indicates the amount of movement needed.

The Universal Prop Spacer fits old SJ's - blue square, 8mm holes; newer SJ's and Sammy's - red square, 10mm holes; and Vitara's and GV's - yellow square, 10mm holes.

All these parts are available in the Bits4Vits  Shop -