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This may be in fact the world's longest shock install on a 4th gen f body ever. What would seemingly be a simple half hour of my time has somehow turned into a few good days worth of work lol let me explain how and why. So I recently purchased a set of the baddest drag racing shocks (within affordability). These would be AFCO double adjustables
Upon install I new these would be no simple swap as the themselves are physically bigger in diameter than the stock 85K DeCarbons I would be replacing so I searched online and went through my options. 1st was to order the appropriate relocation brackets via Madman, problem whith this is my Dad and I cannot weld and they are a weld on only piece, not to mention reading several stories of guys needing to grind down the stock shock bracket thereafterfor additional clearance wasn't helping make the decision. 2nd option was to make some myself with my dad as fun father/son project. 3rd would be buying some longer grade 8 bolts, a spacer for the additional clearance and mount them with the adjustment knobs facing inward. My UMI drag bar has bends in the shock area that are meant for this specfic purpose and it was a simple trip to the hardware store so that was my choice.
Got them all bolted up nice and neat everything torqued down and then went to lower the car back on all 4s only to notice that low and behold the driver side shock knob, wait not even the knob, rather the small allen head bolt that holds the knob on is slightly rubbing the drag bar and scratched the powdercoat even. Of course I was tempted to take a die grinder and make quick work of things but I wanted to do it once and do it right so I attempted the alternative and made a set of relocation brackets with my Dad. We figured if we failed that I could always order the ones online and have them welded somehow if need be and I still can if these don't work out. The other attractive feature of mounting them this way is the the shock is able to rotate with the suspension and will therefor have less chance of bind which I'm told is a common issue with f bodies. So here is what we came up with.
We made them out of some scrap aluminum we had lying around, they bolt on almost like factory and as you can see we had some tight spaces to fit into but I think they came out pretty good, hopefully they don't break on me lol.
Upon install I new these would be no simple swap as the themselves are physically bigger in diameter than the stock 85K DeCarbons I would be replacing so I searched online and went through my options. 1st was to order the appropriate relocation brackets via Madman, problem whith this is my Dad and I cannot weld and they are a weld on only piece, not to mention reading several stories of guys needing to grind down the stock shock bracket thereafterfor additional clearance wasn't helping make the decision. 2nd option was to make some myself with my dad as fun father/son project. 3rd would be buying some longer grade 8 bolts, a spacer for the additional clearance and mount them with the adjustment knobs facing inward. My UMI drag bar has bends in the shock area that are meant for this specfic purpose and it was a simple trip to the hardware store so that was my choice.
Got them all bolted up nice and neat everything torqued down and then went to lower the car back on all 4s only to notice that low and behold the driver side shock knob, wait not even the knob, rather the small allen head bolt that holds the knob on is slightly rubbing the drag bar and scratched the powdercoat even. Of course I was tempted to take a die grinder and make quick work of things but I wanted to do it once and do it right so I attempted the alternative and made a set of relocation brackets with my Dad. We figured if we failed that I could always order the ones online and have them welded somehow if need be and I still can if these don't work out. The other attractive feature of mounting them this way is the the shock is able to rotate with the suspension and will therefor have less chance of bind which I'm told is a common issue with f bodies. So here is what we came up with.
We made them out of some scrap aluminum we had lying around, they bolt on almost like factory and as you can see we had some tight spaces to fit into but I think they came out pretty good, hopefully they don't break on me lol.
357ci LT1, cammed, stalled, and driven. 
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