Just built a set of wood car ramps, low slope, 60" long, 10" rise.

5 pieces of 2" thick x 9" wide wood, each one 9" shorter than the one below it. Cost £33 in wood.

I like it,i'll take a set(group buy maybe):D ;)

Halfords sell steel car ramps for 25 quid per pair..... :p :D

Originally posted by XTT

Halfords sell steel car ramps for 25 quid per pair..... :p :D

Thats true,but,the gradient is too steep to quick,have tried with my own,and on way down,even if ya got it up ,would probably rip the front bumber off mine,and if you were to reverse up theres no way mine will make it much past the rear bumber,the ramps hit it as you push them up to wheel,but as far as i can see,the wood ones would be perfect,nice easy gradual increase in height,:)

Tested the wood ramps tonight, works great, loads of room to crawl underneath. (Pic enclosed)

 

Cant wait to try them out hopefully this weekend fitting the Tension Rods I bought from Simon.

 

 

Thanks

 

John

:cool: ,impressed,will try to do it myself next week:eek: i aint no chippy so it will look awfull i bet,John how did you fix them together,big long nails or bolts,cant make it out in pic fore certain;)

Tony,

 

Im no chippy either, thats why I had the timber merchant cut everything to size (the £33 for all the wood included cutting every piece to exact length.

 

For each ramp you will need: (2" thick x 9" wide boards)

 

1 piece 60" long

1 piece 51" long

1 piece 42" long

1 piece 33" long

1 piece 24" long

 

I used rough sawn lumber (planed would be nice but much more expensive) I nailed and glued them together. Some boards will be a bit warped probably, but dont worry, these ramps are sturdy as hell, even safer than jacks and axle stands, and much quicker.

But, they are heavy......each weighing about 80 lbs.

 

Regards

 

John

Originally posted by TonyC

Thats true,but,the gradient is too steep to quick,have tried with my own,and on way down,even if ya got it up ,would probably rip the front bumber off mine,and if you were to reverse up theres no way mine will make it much past the rear bumber,the ramps hit it as you push them up to wheel,but as far as i can see,the wood ones would be perfect,nice easy gradual increase in height,:)

 

True, but if you put a couple of bricks width ways before the ramp then you can get the car up the steel ramps without causing damage. I know cos I did it last week ;)

 

Saying all that, you still wouldn't get your car up by 10" like you can with the super dooper wooden ones! :D

So compromise: get a pair of steel ramps then mount

them on 1, or perhaps 2, 2" planks.

 

:cool: :cool:

No........steel off the shelf ramps are useless.........you end up planking accross........jacking them up..........making a very unstable ramp...........when you drive your car on them they slide................and for £33 you could build a great set of stable ramps

 

 

John

Might well knock up a set of these at the weekend. JD :bow:

I tried something like this last week but didn't quite work out, my bumper is just too low.

I just use my jack and raise the car and sit on steel ramps from halfrauds

How about these then!!:) http://www.yellow.co.nz/site/tiltaramp/

Ive seen these in the uk advertised at around £500! Handy?

Good idea John, is your car lowered at all?

Using the standard zx car jack and steel stands i can get my zx up enough so i can wiggle underneath the engine bay to do stuff. Its a good work out for the arms too lol. My zed is just 5" off the ground.

Yeah there is something reasuringly solid about wood when your under the car pushing and shuvving.

 

Nice one Dix might make some of these myself.

 

I have normal steel ramps with a wooden lower step, two screws in the end of the wood and they hook onto the lower rungs of the steel ramps, this is easy and it works but Id prefer the overall wooden jobby.

built these a few months ago very handy

Still using mine that i built just after John put up measurements,work bloody great.

 

Tony :)

Have been thinking about ramps just lately. Thats the best Idea I have seen yet as I really need long gradual ramps because the cars is so low. Why havent you cut the edges of the bottom and two top planks John? And maybe a rubber slip mat on the bottom might be good????

2003 post, bet johns ramps have wood worm by now :D

Have made a set of these up and no longer have the room for them £60 if anyone wants to pick them up!

I found the solution years ago - railway sleepers! So I bought 4 of them, laid them out in my garage at the track width for the Z32, and built myself a really shallow ramp for each side - about 6ft in length, I guess. I also cut a length of wood to the width of the track of the car, so I can always check that the sleepers haven't moved. Keeps them parallel too. The sleepers raise it about 10 inches (every time I put the car away - usually front first), which means that any time I want to check anything underneath, no sweat, zoom in on a wheelie-recliner. A highly recommended solution! Bought sleepers from a railway maintenance yard. Quite cheap. IF you can still find some wooden ones.

God this old thread takes me back,still got mine,had the Shogun way up in the air other day to do autobox oil,bloody brilliant,realy helped on my Zs too,especialy when doing the PIA Alternator :D

Perfect and exactly what I'll be doing tomorrow. Thanks for posting this John - I was wondering how best to raise it.

This is what im looking to make for my zed when its back to get under it:D!

Top job bud:D!!!!!!!!