Look carefully at your photo. You see how the tie-rod, when mounted
correctly on the bottom of the arm, follows the angle of the lower control
arm? This is not by accident and is the way it must be to elimate bump-steer.
That's why their sleeve is exactly as long as they made it.
If you mount the outer tie-rods to the top of the arm you will have so
much bump steer that the car will be ennormously unsafe to drive.
I can not emphasize how huge this problem will be. You could easily
loose control in any situation where you get on and off the gas at
highway speeds or on a rolling road which excercises the suspension.
One drive is all it will take to park it until a solution is devised to
get wheels with the proper clearance.