Should be plenty of room

 

Thanks for the picture, Nick.

 

I have about 2 1/4" from the lip of the shock tower to the top of the shock shaft and with the stock mounts I have slight dents in the black material under the hood from the shafts bumping in to it.

Nicks looks a bit taller so the rubber mounts must move quite a bit.

 

Macr88, that matched my measurement. I got 2.25" between the chassis sheet metal and the hood liner. Though, there's probably a good 0.5" of extra clearance to be gained by cutting a hole in the liner. The legality for STR auto-x would need to be considered before doing this...

Sounds like we'd need a upper mount that didn't protrude above the chassis flange in order to clear the adjuster mechanism.

Here's a better image of the Bilstein MDS adjuster -

 

Did they give you a price on the shaft?
That's pretty tall, the Tein SRC top hats would probably work since they're flush with the shock tower and they're solid. Don't confuse these with the ones that are supplied with the monoflex because they're not the same.

 

I'm trying to refrain from overloading my contact with a laundry list of questions, so I haven't discussed pricing yet.

I think I know which Tein top mount you are talking about. By mounting the shaft in this configuration, shorter damper bodies would probably be necessary.

The fuel filler could be problematic in the rear if it gets in the way of the MDS adjuster. I'll have to take a closer look. The rear passenger side, has plenty of clearance to work with.

 

The left rear will definitely be an issue.

 

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Makes them cost just over $700.

 

As was assumed, the Penske adjuster has very little effect with dampers that have small diameter shafts...e.g., Bilsteins. This meant that the -3AN reservoir lines didn't negatively impact the damper performance.

The damping values were based on a damping coefficient of 0.7 for front and rear. On the street, these dampers definitely move and actually feel very similar to stock damping levels with 900 lb/in front and 800 lb/in rear springs. For auto-x I'm going to need more low-speed force, which I kinda knew about before asking the builder to revalve them. For tracking, these may work OK. I need to get it realigned before testing the chassis to it's limits.

Shortening the bodies definitely allows for more travel and with the use of appropriate bump stops, the tires don't get into the fenders too much. I'm running the J's Racing camber joints with and an adjusted camber of -3.0 in the front and -3.2 in the rear. I would highly recommend shortening the bodies by ~1 inch for anyone looking to get a little lower and still have available bump travel than the standard PSS allows for.

I'm going to use them as is for a while, but I'll eventually revalve them for more low speed compression and rebound.

 

What kind of helper spring couplers are those?