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Looks spectacular but not recommended unless you've seriously beefed up the suspension with aftermarket stiffeners on both ends & are middle- aged and have already led a full life. And even then, weekly checks under the car should be done, looking for cracks. Larry Stock has run many ORR events, one in which he hit a humpback bridge at 150mph and got 'serious air' according to the event organizers. No damage showed except beveling half the seat rail bolt-ends off and picking concrete pieces out of the crossmembers. A few months later when inspecting the car before another event, someone noticed the entire lower front subframe had cracked loose on both sides and there was a gap showing to the main tub! An aftermarket stiffening system was all that held the lower front suspension on....
Denise McLuggage once mentioned that she consulted for Jeep on one TV commercial that showed Jeeps leaping merrily around off-road. Denise said that afterwards, they junked 4 of the 5 Jeeps used in the commercial. Bottom line: air is for planes.
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