My homemade Lowes mod race ramps
08-13-2009, 12:31 PM
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My homemade Lowes mod race ramps
My car is a 5.5 gen, and that's why it's here and would get more traffic. Anyway, enjoy!
I might add another plank, to get a little bit more height. With the Creeper, I fit all the way through. Without it, I can lay there all day.
I might add another plank, to get a little bit more height. With the Creeper, I fit all the way through. Without it, I can lay there all day.
08-13-2009, 02:18 PM
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lol thats a good idea. I have ramps but my car is too low to drive up them, we jack up one wheel then wedge the ramp in, then the next wheel, then drive it up... huge pita... I am definitely making something like this, Im going to try and make it a little taller though..
great job!! FTW
great job!! FTW
08-13-2009, 02:36 PM
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I like the idea of having the extra piece to add, so that you can back it up and get all the wheels lifted.
This guide would have been nice last weekend... was trying to replace fuel filter on my dad's miata. The sides are too low for ramps, so I backed it up onto one ramp, then jacked up the front with a floor jack, then used a scissor jack on the front control arm, a trick I learned from Jime, to get the front tire high enough to wedge a ramp under it.
Your way seems so much easier and better!
This guide would have been nice last weekend... was trying to replace fuel filter on my dad's miata. The sides are too low for ramps, so I backed it up onto one ramp, then jacked up the front with a floor jack, then used a scissor jack on the front control arm, a trick I learned from Jime, to get the front tire high enough to wedge a ramp under it.
Your way seems so much easier and better!
08-13-2009, 07:10 PM
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08-13-2009, 10:12 PM
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Rather than driving your car up from the front than adding the ramps to the front to be able to reverse... why not just have the same set that you made in the front and make an exact same one. Place both ramps in front of the wheels and drive up that way?
Rather than driving up, put the attaching ramp to the front, than add ramps behind ur rear wheels and reverse on those..? Just curious. I might do this but just wondering why you added double sets in the front?
Rather than driving up, put the attaching ramp to the front, than add ramps behind ur rear wheels and reverse on those..? Just curious. I might do this but just wondering why you added double sets in the front?
08-13-2009, 10:14 PM
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It's because he's dropped. The sides of the car are the lowest part, lower than the front or the back. He probably doesn't have enough ground clearance to fit the ramps in front of the rear tires, so he has to do it like that.
08-14-2009, 07:18 AM
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Rather than driving your car up from the front than adding the ramps to the front to be able to reverse... why not just have the same set that you made in the front and make an exact same one. Place both ramps in front of the wheels and drive up that way?
Rather than driving up, put the attaching ramp to the front, than add ramps behind ur rear wheels and reverse on those..? Just curious. I might do this but just wondering why you added double sets in the front?
Rather than driving up, put the attaching ramp to the front, than add ramps behind ur rear wheels and reverse on those..? Just curious. I might do this but just wondering why you added double sets in the front?
It's going. I'm working on it as I get free time on my hands, which is scarce these days. Next off will be the timing chain covers and components. My new Brian Crower 264/264 cams came in today, so that's a plus.
08-14-2009, 07:28 AM
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08-14-2009, 09:59 AM
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Weight really shouldn't be an issue unless you have to hang these on the wall to store them. Other than that, man up!
08-14-2009, 10:00 AM
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Question...did the parking concrete bump come with your house or did you put that in?
I see, based on the way these work one would need something to stop the wood ramps from moving forward when going up the first time. For you, the concrete bump does the job.
I see, based on the way these work one would need something to stop the wood ramps from moving forward when going up the first time. For you, the concrete bump does the job.
08-14-2009, 10:42 PM
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I couldn't get on my steel ramps either until I put a length of 2x10 in front of the ramp. When I drive up on the 2x10, I can keep going up the steel ramp.
