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Old 09-16-2020, 07:03 AM
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'm going to say from my experience do not use the top stud type mount for a coilover mount. Mine failed twice, I braced it the second time and if you really think about it was the top shock mount designed to hold the weight of the car? No it wasn't. If you dig hard enough you will find more failures like mine. I repaired it using the BMR coilover mount

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'm going to say from my experience do not use the top stud type mount for a coilover mount. Mine failed twice, I braced it the second time and if you really think about it was the top shock mount designed to hold the weight of the car? No it wasn't. If you dig hard enough you will find more failures like mine. I repaired it using the BMR coilover mount
Wow, that is the 1st time I have seen the Tower rip off! I have sold a lot of the Pro Coil setups that use a Stud mount - no one has ever reported this issue.

To me it looks like your Brace started to break and then finally ripped
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Wow, that is the 1st time I have seen the Tower rip off! I have sold a lot of the Pro Coil setups that use a Stud mount - no one has ever reported this issue.

To me it looks like your Brace started to break and then finally ripped
That was the first time it failed. Both sides of the car looked exactly the same. I cleaned it up, welded it back together and added some bracing. Lasted maybe a year, failed again, that is when I decided to use your (BMR) coil-over mount conversion.




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What Coilovers did you have and what was the Spring Rate? Is the car a Drag Car that came back down hard?
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What Coilovers did you have and what was the Spring Rate? Is the car a Drag Car that came back down hard?
Ridetech HQ single Adjustable. I street drive and autocross my car. I started off with 600# and went up to 800# springs. I put something like 20K miles on the car when it failed the first time.
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