Well I got the struts and Jeff's strut spacers in, and did a camber alignment. I got a cool little camber guage from JC Whitney that makes this job a whole lot easier. But enough about that. Now that I have the strut mount spacer in, the shaft of the strut rides at about 5 3/4 inches out, leaving about 1.5" in the strut body at ride height. ( NOTE: the new struts were .25 " shorter!? or aprox 7.25" of exposed shaft, where my original ones measured a bit over 7.5" of exposed shaft. WTF is that about?) IT's an improvement, but to me, 1.5" of shaft in the strut body doesn't sound like enough. I'd be a lot more comfortable with 2.5-3", and that would mean adding another 1" of spacer. Or I could just flip the strut mount again and get another inch. Most of what I've learned about suspensions came from the motorcycle world, so I may be totally off with this, but I think for the best ride quality, and best traction, the wheel needs to be able to move down in it's travel at least 25/30 % of it's total travel. Meaning the strut should be about a third of the way in compression at ride height. Someone please correct or educate me if I'm incorrect. Still have to work on that.
I haven't been able to figure out the lower mounting points for a limit strap either. I was going to make a tab to mount the lower part of the strap off the upper strut mount bolt ( the camber adjustment bolt) but it puts the strap too close the the inside of the tire and it would rub. The top mounting point will be much easier if I can figure out the bottom. Back to the drawing board. Blacktrack, I'm almost positive there is no alternitive to the OME strut if you want a longer strut. Calmini was supposed to be coming out with a longer strut, there was talk and a rumor of the thing actually being seen at some event, but alas, it evaporated like most rumors.