[madmaxx]

Yes the car is close to the ceiling but there is enough room. Garage door is completely out of the way, the attacjed pictures shows my original tension springs. the door would not stay down when closed and would not stay up when open. They actually make special drums for the torsion bar for a "high lift garage door application" Now it works perfect and little to no effort, my opener shows up next week and will mount on the side of the torsion bar.

On a side note in order to give cobra more room when the lexus is on top I decided to remove on of the blocks on each leg and relocate. After 1 hour with a 4.5" grinder, cut-off tool, dremel tool, 8lb sledge hammer, wedges I finally got 1 block off, three left. If you have a spatter of weld it is strong enough to support a Hummer. Holy sheet did I work to get it off. I was very carefull not to mar the lift or the angle the blocks were attached too. I got some 1" key stock to replace.

I work on cars and boats all the time, my lift has never gotten in the way, if necessary I put it all the way down and drive the car on the runways and park it that way. In fact it helps because I will raise the cobra and pile all my project stuff I am working on under it, like ladders, saws etc or whatever other tools I do not want to put away until the project is complete.