thats the first kit that CST came out with it is a CST 8" doesnt have the upper control arms like the new one.

 

i knew it! http://performancelifts.com/cgi-bin/cart/CST04F150.html see thats it right there CST's first kit like i wsa talking about.

 

yup my buddy had an 04 with that lift when the new CST 8" came out he swaped it the old one is nice just less ground clearance and no upper control arms!

 

You were right!! Anyway, that is one ugly *** lift kit..

 

yeah thats a little reason why i didnt buy the CST at the time cause it was like that. haha. Then i bought my pro comp with mx-6r shocks and coilovers, then sold that, and bought my rize.

 

Pat you are wrong. I emailed the guy before I posted this, and he just got back to me and told me it is a custom lift. He said he works at a fabrication shop and he made it himself.

 

really?? hmm...well he got his design from CST's original kit than haha.

Though i find it a little hard to beleive that. Cause you cant just "fabricate" a lift for trucks with Independant Front Suspensions. Cause it takes ALOT of engineering for the sub frame. You gotta test stress points, alot of geometry and time and physics goes into making a IFS lift kit.

Now if our trucks were a a Solid Axle setup, custom lifts are easy to make from suspensiuon fabrication shops.

Now if he really did build that kit himself, it would have taken him a LONG TIME. And his truck is a 2004, which means he didnt even have the truck before it was released so he didnt have planning time to start the lift. Companies like fabtech and others receive trucks early to start engineering a lift so they can start selling when the truck arrives at dealers. Which is how Fabetch had a lift for the 2008 Super Duty so quick.

 

i agree thats a damn hard thing to do he must be an engineer.... and CST might want to say something to that guy a about copying them!!!

 

i really doubt he built it himself.
I mean think about it...everything i said up there ^^^


PLUS in 2004 thats how the CST lift kit looked before they changed it....hmmm

 

I don't know. . he either is lying and is an idiot or he really did build it and thats why hes selling it.