How about you don't purchase or decide on which lift until you build the garage? It is not hard at all to build a garage that will easily accept a 2 post lift. A 10 foot celling is enough for a Bend-pac floor plate type 2 post lift. Scissor, parallelogram and other mid-rise type lifts that intrude on the underside of the car are a pain to deal with when working on the car. Unmounted X type lifts have their own box of instability risks to contend with.

what is a "lowish" celling hight?

 

The design is already a done deal and due to the roofline, even with the door tight to the ceiling, it's probably no better than 9 feet. A full-height, walk-under lift just isn't in the cards. ;-(

 

Ok then. What do you plan to use the lift for?

 

I wouldn't get a lift for just the SRF personally. Get some high chassis stands and one of the high lift jacks. If you're thinking for other cars then that's another story.

 

Not just for the SRF. I also like to do routine stuff (brakes, fluids) on the family fleet.

 

Greg

Go for the MaxJax. They are running a group buy on garage journal that gets it delivered for 1750. I absolutely love mine and if you need to move it it just unbolts and rolls against the wall. Olser picture, it now sits in another bay after I redid the floors.


John

 

I don't understand how some of these simpler lifts work.
Don't they crush everything under the car?

 

We purchased our house just because of the garage and the height of the ceiling. after a lot of hard work I installed a two post lift and I LOVE it! I am lucky with the height of the ceiling I can walk right under the car (and I am 6'5). I have used the scissor lifts in the past but if there is anyway you can put in a two post lift go for it!

 

Another happy MaxJax user with a low garage ceiling here. Mine has been worth every penny I spent on it. It seems like I have the motor out of my car every other weekend and it was a huge pain when I just had jackstands and an engine hoist to work with. I couldn't imagine working on the car with the middle part obstructed with the sissors jacks. I bought mine in a group buy at Garage Journal too. $1750 is a decent price. Costco used to sell them with free shipping.

 

I'm now thinking that this MaxJax is the total solution for me, too! Thanks for the direction, guys.

Looking studly there, Chris! ^^

 

Check out Costco for the MaxJax.

 

www.garagejournal.com is the obsessive-compulsive's equiv of RL for garages, wealth of info. I had different issues, and just installed one of BendPaks rare single post platform lifts.

I love the maxjax concept but I dunno, somehow would rather entrust my mortal coil to a scissors style design...