Took delivery in May of 2020. I have about 4500 miles on it, mostly twisties, and some of those roads do work the suspension. I got my car tuned on E85 (386 whp yikes!). I hit it pretty hard in second because, well because. The front end got light and when I went to shift it dropped the body onto the street. The shock was dangling behind the A-arm. I'm just glad it happened there and not on the canyon road I was headed to. The shock showed signs of rubbing on the bolt heads so it was already broken, who knows how long.

Hard to see it on the car with the shocks on. I had no clue that it was broken until it dropped. The only weld on them is from the bottom. There's no weld on the inside corner and if there was, it would foul the outboard bolt head. If you have the shock off you might be able to see down the gap in that inside corner using a bright light and maybe a magnifying glass or a borescope. If there was weld penetration it would look like a rough line of weld down in the bottom of the gap. Full penetration would have filled that gap right up to the top. I used acetylene to weld the inside corner avoiding the area of that bolt head. I also put a spot of weld on the ends of the vertical sides where they meet the bottom piece.

I'm coming to the conclusion that I need to put the car up and crawl under it every thousand miles or so to make sure everthing is still there. I have an EZcarlift which will get it up to about 28" that I built the car on. I highly recommend it.

Ed