Quote Originally Posted by the evil twin View Post
Apologies for the snip but... Wow, thats a big call.

At the risk of the thread hijacking, could you pop up a few examples of what you mean. I can't think of any "illegal" mod making a car safer than factory. Just because I can't think of some doesn't mean there aren't of course.

Certainly a 4 inch lift for example doesn't improve safety even if it is "engineered" as all that the engineering does is bring the vehicle up to an acceptable standard as the lift degraded the safety immensely. I would strongly suggest in 9 cases out of 10 even an engineered lift still below factory performance head to head in braking and stability.

Why?... people lift to put on bigger dia tyres, bigger dia tyres cut the braking efficiency significantly. Some may argue but it is simple physics as the turning moment or leverage acting against the brake effect is now much greater. Again, a factory truck would be a better performer
Can't agree with this,my car handles better now with lifted after market springs than it ever did with original set up ( and it is a 4inch lift car was only 36000 km old when I bought it) you can make your v8 commodore or falcon pump out a lot more power than standard but I don't see them being defected for not upgrading brakes or suspension or fitting of appropriate tyres plus the tyres I that came with the car were brand new maxxis bravos which were down rite dangerous in the wet were legal but my km2's which are much better in all conditions are also " illegal" guess my point is just because it's " illegal" doesn't mean it's unsafe , and just because someone can write out a ticket doesn't mean they know what the fu#k they are on about. My 2 bobs worth.