shock clearance question?

[younggun]

gonna be movin in the springs with the mopar kit. i also have the mopar brace welded on the back of the housing. ive been looking and it seems like when i move the springs in the shocks are going to hit the weld on brace. anyone have this prob?

[mopowers]

You can either notch and box the backbrace, or swap the lower shock plates and remount the shocks in front of the rearend.  You'll have to weld a cross member in though to mount the shocks that way.

[younggun]

i was planning on using the caltracs so the plates would they be interchangable? could i just cut and weld in a new cross member back 1/2 or 1'' back to provide the clearance? what size bar would you recomend to put in?

[mopowers]

If you look at your picture, it doesn't look like you can put in a crossmember an inch behind the stock location without cutting out the floorpan.

I would either use a peice of 1 5/8" MS roll cage tubing and weld in a tube that the bolt goes through.  Or you could use a piece of 2x3 .125" wall tubing and mount vertically.  Then you'd have to cut a portion out to insert the top of the shock.  Then just run a through bolt through it.  Tom gave me that idea.

Does any of this make sense?

I think it'd be easier to clearance the backbrace since you could do that out of the car on a bench.