Okay I'll post a pic of mine too and give some pointers
Heres the skinny on the spacers. Granted I swapped out my stock struts and am running Illumnias. Anyway all the spacers should be used. First of all the ride height of the car is not being changed. Your SPRINGS are controlling that. So dont worry about that. All the spacers are doing is two things. Setting the amount of the strut that sticks up toward your hood(too high and you dent your hood). Second the more spacers you have below your CC plates you are gaining just a "small amount" less than an inch of additional strut travel with in the wheel well. You are NOT raising the car any by doing this.
I installed my plates per the MM directions. First check your hood clearance used straight edge about 5 feet long all the way across the sturt tower. Measured down from the straight edge to the top of the strut..(sticking up though the stock plates) recorded this measurement. I do seem to recall in was "around" 3 +inches. I also used clay to determine exacty how much more clearance I had before I dented my hood. Seems I had about another inch of clearance from the top of the strut(stock strut) before it would hit the hood. You simply use the combination of spacers that position the strut back to the height you measured in the first step. For me I chose to position the plate with half the spacers below the plate and half above it. I split the difference. When checking my measurements I actually raised the sturt up toward the hood about 1/3 inch. But since I had 1 inch to spare this worked well for me. As far as strut travel in the 2 years or so since I installed the plates and sturts I can still count on one hand the times I've bottomed out the strut. I run my Tokico Illuminas at the stiffest setting. Everything I just recapped is in the MM directions that came with your plates. ...bottom line split the stack of spacers and you should be fine...the only danger measure twice so you dont dent you hood. If you need me too I'll go count my spacers and give the count above and below the plates.
hope this helps.
Heres the skinny on the spacers. Granted I swapped out my stock struts and am running Illumnias. Anyway all the spacers should be used. First of all the ride height of the car is not being changed. Your SPRINGS are controlling that. So dont worry about that. All the spacers are doing is two things. Setting the amount of the strut that sticks up toward your hood(too high and you dent your hood). Second the more spacers you have below your CC plates you are gaining just a "small amount" less than an inch of additional strut travel with in the wheel well. You are NOT raising the car any by doing this.
I installed my plates per the MM directions. First check your hood clearance used straight edge about 5 feet long all the way across the sturt tower. Measured down from the straight edge to the top of the strut..(sticking up though the stock plates) recorded this measurement. I do seem to recall in was "around" 3 +inches. I also used clay to determine exacty how much more clearance I had before I dented my hood. Seems I had about another inch of clearance from the top of the strut(stock strut) before it would hit the hood. You simply use the combination of spacers that position the strut back to the height you measured in the first step. For me I chose to position the plate with half the spacers below the plate and half above it. I split the difference. When checking my measurements I actually raised the sturt up toward the hood about 1/3 inch. But since I had 1 inch to spare this worked well for me. As far as strut travel in the 2 years or so since I installed the plates and sturts I can still count on one hand the times I've bottomed out the strut. I run my Tokico Illuminas at the stiffest setting. Everything I just recapped is in the MM directions that came with your plates. ...bottom line split the stack of spacers and you should be fine...the only danger measure twice so you dont dent you hood. If you need me too I'll go count my spacers and give the count above and below the plates.
hope this helps.