If you use our coil over and lower control arm there is no reason to add shock stroke as you'll never use it.
The front suspension moves 5 inches at the wheel. . .the shock moves roughly half that (2:1 motion ratio), so it moves only 2.5 inches. You can put a 10 inch stroke shock in there, but there's no point to doing so.
The stud mount has been used successfully on thousands of cars running our systems. If you look closely at the design you will see a Delrin sphere that rides in an aluminum housing. Even if the parts were to fail due to compression forces it still works as the sphere just gets bigger (during testing I pressed one with 10K lbs and it slightly deformed the aluminum, but still worked.)
You can weld in an upper mount if you just have to have a ring mount, but there's no real gain so long as your OE frame is in good shape. If the frame is rusted, corroded, cracked, etc of course you may see a failure.
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