[supermarkus]

Originally Posted by Geist

I've never done a mod that required my sti to be jacked up for any long period of time... but on my acura, I always just put my jackstands just inside of the pinch welds, parallel to the weld.. and that always worked fine... would that be ok for our imprezas as well?? (MY05, btw)

I had my old WRX up on stands using this location for two weeks while I put it completely back to stock. No problems. I don't really give a crap about the pinch welds though since I got a set of 4 stands with deep cradles and my pinch welds are good and flat for the most part anyway. I like the idea of the pinch weld adapter for the jack though.

[cpunlamd]

Originally Posted by mxpop

Check out what the rally guys are doing, very clever!

http://jcmotophoto.smugmug.com/galle...181012660-L-LB

They use a large floor jack to get the ends up and then insert these triangle stands into the side-sill area (one end at a time). They have the car up and wheels off before the drivers even get out!

Some of the stands even have little trays for the lugs or ???, very good idea that I will puy to use on my car soon. I need to get better look to see how they did it and what they had to do to reinforce it. My guess is that they just bored a hole and welded in a tube for the stands to slide into.

I think this rally type is the best. Installs would be so easy with the car up that high.

[blk rex]

Originally Posted by mxpop

Check out what the rally guys are doing, very clever!

http://jcmotophoto.smugmug.com/galle...181012660-L-LB

They use a large floor jack to get the ends up and then insert these triangle stands into the side-sill area (one end at a time). They have the car up and wheels off before the drivers even get out!

Some of the stands even have little trays for the lugs or ???, very good idea that I will puy to use on my car soon. I need to get better look to see how they did it and what they had to do to reinforce it. My guess is that they just bored a hole and welded in a tube for the stands to slide into.

BTW, no offense, but this isnt my favorite 'jacking' site....

That stand looks like the car has to be modified though..how do they even put the stands under the car..what does the stand look like standing alone?

[munky69]

been using the pinch weld for years, no problems. we use those to lift the cars when i worked at suby. yeah there's other points you can use,but i almost always used to use the pinch seem. done just about everything you can do to car under there, never had any problems. safe lifting was a MAJOR deal to me. i wouldn't take a tire off without triple checking my lift

[STI Sibb]

In picture 2...

I was going to jack up the front at that point, but after I looked at it more closely, it didn't appear to have any support directly under it.

What does that spot have directly under it to support the weight of the vehicle?

One noob question...
All jack stands say not to place a car up on 4 jack stands. Is this just a cover your butt warning or is there a real danger to doing so?

[blueman05]

all my pinch welds are bent up from using a regular jack on them. i currently have my car up on 4 jack stands where the pinch welds are bent up.... is this ok?

[mxpop]

That's what I do and I still have all 9 fingers to show for it......

[ryanSTi07]

i used to use the pinch welds. my wrx under cariage looked like crap with bent welds...

[blueman05]

ok to have car up on 4 jack stands for long period of time like a month or so? all 4 stands are at pinch weld locations.... pinch welds are bend but still should be ok for support correct?

[stim]

As described by Rantar_STi:

To visualize where to place the jack stand look at the first picture of this thread showing the jack stand right under the pinch weld. If that jack was rotated 90 degrees and moved towards the inside of the car (i.e. towards the drive shaft) such that it would be located immediately behind (inboard of) the pinch weld (about 1/8") and immediately below the raised area of the floor panel, that would be the correct place to put the stand (and centered on the raised area of the floor panel).

I agree with this 100%, as well as the originally described jacking points. The floor just inboard of the pinch welds is shaped to accept jack-stands. I am always putting my car on stands to change to track wheels and brakes. I use a soft thin piece of wood in the jack pan.