Garage lift requirements

[Dave Rifkin]

My wife and I currently own a 2002 Corvette Z06 and a 1969 Corvette coupe. We have a two car garage and have often wondered if we have the required ceiling height to accommodate a lift so we could keep both cars in one area of the garage and free up one space for her daily driver.
What is required from a ceiling height perspective? Are there any other considerations that I need to be aware of?

[HawkX66]

You might want to check out the Garage Journal. There are a million posts about lifts and their requirements etc. 12' seems to be a generally accepted good height.

[Charley Lillard]

10' works. Go measure the height of each car. Corvettes are low so you might even get away with 9'. If you have the width in your garage they make a side by side lift that puts both cars in the air. I think the posts are 17' 6" apart side to side. May need to have garage door opener changed to either hug the ceiling or be a roll up that rolls up at the header panel.

[RPOLS3]

Garage Journal link

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40017

[RPOLS3]

Same topic on Corvette Forum

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c1-and-c2-corvettes/3045322-ceiling-height-w-4-post-lift.html

[RPOLS3]

May need to have garage door opener changed to either hug the ceiling or be a roll up that rolls up at the header panel.


We just did this about 18 months ago when my son won the Titan lift at MCACN in 2016. You will most likely need to install a wall mount jack shaft opener in addition to revising the overhead door tracks for additional lift (brings door closer to ceiling as noted by Charley) The verticals are new for the extended height, new horizontals, lift clearance drums, new cables (longer) and the spring changes. You are almost getting everything new except the overhead door sections themselves. Since the door is now closer to the ceiling you may have to move light fixtures or other things in the way as well.

We used this operator http://www.raynor.com/products/prodigy_II.cfm?tab=details

Total cost for the operator and door track/hardware modifications in Northern IL area was about $1,200.

A guy might be able to do this himself and save some bucks (the material was about half the cost) but we didn't want to mess with the springs or cables for the door revisions.