coilovers, stock suspension, different k member?

moparfreak77 said

This maybe a total stupid question...i dont care :) Has anyone ever thought about building a coilover front suspension by replacing the stock k member with a homemade (tube?) one? As in...stock spindles, brakes, LCA, new UCA to work with coilovers and make a new k member with the mounts that come up for the coilover to mount to (no inner fender bracing)? I hope I am wording all that right :). I imagine a lot of the coilover conversion kits are new parts from the frame out. Could you mount coilovers on a stock LCA? thanks

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the problem I found attempting to add coilovers to the factory LCA is the shock mounts (upper and lower) are inward too far causing the 2.5OD coil spring to come in contact with the factory frame / sheet metal.

on the HDK upper shock mount /chromoly support hoops, the top mount is cheated outward slightly. The same is done with the tubular LCA, all while keeping the ball joints in the same location so your track width does not grow and the factory geometry remains.

the overall limited room defined by the LCA pivot point is another challenge.....max is a shock with 4" of travel.