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It has made a significant difference with shock tuning. I'm able to run a much longer coilover and as a result, I am not sitting so deep in the travel. Re-valving allows me to make it a bit more of a progressive tune to have a supple feel on road and lots of bottom out resistance. As far as...

I did as a matter of fact, I've been absent from this forum for a while, but I've been driving it for the last two years after doing the conversion and the towers.

You would have to make a custom mount for your own application. I had to raise the upper mount 5". All of the design work for this project starts Here ... Let me know if you have any questions that aren't answered on the thread. I'm on here a lot less often. I'll go see if I can get a PN#

You can see that fish plates were added to overlap the weld between the factory tower and the new one.

Putting it back together Re-assembly time with all the new shiny parts

Update: New parts cut Got the final part cut out, and tacked. I couldn't wait any longer so, I just got after it and started burning.

Update: CNC done on the prototype and some refinement Got the CNC to cut the parts out, tacked together, and fitted to check the dimensions. This is a very crude version and you can see that I took lots of material away afterwards and added some cleaner lines.

Here's some fun on the computer This is sort of the progression after doing the finite element analysis for the mount. I sort of know what I'm doing, but I'm only just scratching the surface.

4Runner May Update Here's a photo for reference after I had chopped the fenders and attempted to fit the 35's without tubbing.... Laughing at that now!

Fitting and measuring All of the work for figuring out the material thickness, width/length/etc. of the tower will be done in CAD, but I was getting the clearance for the coilover done with grid board.

Photo dump Problem and starting to get to the solution Chop, chop, chop

Update a few years on... It's been nearly 4 years I installed these coilovers on a 2wd vehicle and I ultimately went through and painstakingly thought through how I would go about designing this mount to get all of the travel back out of the factory suspension. Problem: I lost a few inches of...

Progress Over the weekend I got some parts cut out and well... The new towers are tacked and mocked up. Here you can see where we are at. Resi fittings need to be clocked 90 degrees. Limit strap bracket is welded and Opt offroad CAM deletes are in too! I need to make some clearance...

The fun kind of maintenance Spindle gussets, repainted the UCA's, new bushes/sleeves/ and a beastly EMF Rebuildable Uniball which was nerveracking. [/ATTACH][/ATTACH] Will update on the design, but over a day I think I have worked the dimensions out and have a pretty complete design

chop chop chop Over the weekend I decided to start chopping and get working on a design I have had in my head for a while. Cut the strut towers out to stuff a massive coilover in there and gain some travel