Lifted Gen 2 Prius. Birmingham AL

Don't know where that was, but going by your profile, and including the vehicle color, could this have been a 2k1toaster vehicle?

 

Nice shark antenna addition too.

 

Damn. I need to get off stock wheels, that looks fly af.

 

I would imagine he’s using the Prius Off Road kit. I just installed it on my 09 when replacing all struts and I can now take Chicago speed bumps at 30 mph

 

The height looks right for the PriusOffroad setup. Same one I'm going with on mine.

 

What's the Prius Off Road Kit? Wonder if it is like mine. I need to dig up the specs on the spaces used. Tomorrow I go to get leaf springs.

 

In regards to springs, appears "The springs are ACDELCO 45H1478 from Rockauto for $39.79 a pair. They are listed to fit 2009 to 2013 Matrix AWD, 2003 to 2010 Vibe AWD, and 2009 to 2010 Corolla. FWD Matrix, FWD Vibe and older Corolla's use the same spring as the Prius."

Similarly, the sway bars interchange and I grabbed a half off sale 2009 Corolla sway bar at the Luckys Self Serve yard for potential use. I also grabbed a rear sway bar from a gen 2 Prius to consider fabricating front strut tower brace with cutouts from another Priuses strut mount chassis material.

Wound up getting for the gen 3 two car axles spring seats (cut off the axles) for the rear lift where I think now can only use one seat with bolts and lock nuts to adjust the lift and save welding or bolting two together. I also cut off the chassis strut mount location and got a set of strut mounts so can weld the strut mount location on the bottom and the strut mount on top so mainly Toyota material lift.

For the gen 2, 2012 AWD Matrix front and rear springs as well as the rear perches and I forget which year Vibe offhand, though grabbed a set of rear as well just to see if a different on one of the half off sales at the Weller Self Serve yard. Was thinking similar using the strut mounts and chassis mount location material, though costs more to cut out from what I can see since I think I need a carbide or reciprocating saw blade due to the added gusset material in the way on the gen 2 Prius. Probably can stack strut mounts as a method as well for a strut mount spacer lift.

Anyways, then I see this even more cost effective method and am impressed at the DIY ingenuity with field testing examples far beyond what I'll be doing most likely at least seems.

Just some info I'll post here since I wanted to share Hybrid Garage way cost effective lift design:

 

That is definitely not a PriusOffroad lift kit... Thats a PriusOverlanding.com lift kit!

 

you cant find this anywhere..

 

Yep, just looked. Looks discontinued and out of stock everywhere. Appears only one manufacturer on RockAuto for the AWD front springs: https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=15331801&cc=1504341&pt=7512&jsn=464