Many thanks for your thoughts!
The question is, what additional load would the coilovers cause? It should be just the compensation of the "sagged-leafs-loss", which would be certainly much lower compared to the "only-coilovers" (like the SSL rear suspension). Moreover, if I understand it correct, the SSL rear suspension uses the original shock mounts without any modifications? In combination with Rog's bumpstops, to avoid the extreme load peaks of the shock mounts (which are, I guess, designed with some reserve?), it might work without any mount modification and risk of damage?
Just thoughts...
Peter
Peter the image above (with tongue in cheek comments
) is of the factory 5 link Roadster employing coil over suspension. As you can see the top bar, which bolts to the chassis, is substantially different to the leaf spring version which has to cope with only oblique shock absorber loads, and still has been known to break mounts! I wouldn't dream of adding extra loads to the latter. I would suggest therefore the later Roadster bar or similar would be a better starting point to employ coil springs. Note also that SSL supply the necessary dedicated top bar in their kit as below.
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/fIY29Lk.png)
My own view FWIW if faced with your problem would get to fit new leaf springs or go the whole hog with full SSL conversion as recently described
here. It would be an awful lot of work to weld on extra coil spring mounts top and bottom for unknown results.
