Thanks for taking my admittedly biased opinion in the spirit that it's offered. I spent 30-something years trying to keep a bunch of high school auto mechanics "students" from killing themselves, me, or their fellow motorists with some of the ideas they got from the pages of Hot Rod Magazine, so I tend to be VERY conservative about using non-standard parts or procedures.
The one exception I make is for racing, where everybody out there on the track understands and accepts the risks involved. The soccer mom with a van full of kids didn't sign on to be the target of a 3-rail bank shot off a couple of other cars and a guard rail when somebody's suspension lowering job goes south, or a poorly-engineered air bag job puts a lowrider out of control. Ditto for the jacked-up rock crawler with 4-foot-tall lug tires somebody insists on driving on the freeway.
Your mileage may vary!
Jerry
