Dropzone strut perch huh?

HAHA, yeah, telling him to search.

SEARCHHHHHHHH

Anyways I will try to clarify but don't have pics with me.

This is how your struts look:
(ignore the dots they are only there to hold place)

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............^..^
Now you can see where the ^ are pointing at. The top is the bumpstop rest, which must be grounded down for the coilover slip to slide over. It only needs a bit of grinding and should be fairly easy. Now the spring pearch is the much bigger thing that the springs rest upon. This is the perch, look at your current suspension and you will see this big ass perch that the springs are resting on. All 4 of these must come off. They are pretty hard to get at but not overly complex. Just make a cut into the perch and cut off the perch at the welding points. Be careful not to cut into the struts housing themselves.

ANd are you intending to use these with your stock shocks? I hope they are at least 30k miles or newer or chances are they are blown to bits. If you have never touched them than you will need new struts. I have done this 4 times and everytime i try not to buy struts but ended up buying them anyways since installation is a pain in the ass. If you do buy new struts than you can buy struts that do not have the spring perch at all. I believe you can get KYB and of course Tokicos that are perchless. These are much better than grinding off the spring perch since it will hurt the strut tube.

Hey, yea, thanks, I appreciate the little diagram and all. I took a look already at the thread you linked too, those are for Ground Control and not Dropzone coilovers, and though they may involve some of the same work, I wanted to know what exactly went into the installation of Dropzone coilovers specifically.
I make use of the search function whenever possible, and though I do appreciate the "dude, seriously, serach already" senitment, I wouldn't have posted if I hadn't already. But all the same, for precautionary measures, good call.
Anyway, yea, I just wanna know so I understand a little better the mechanics of what I'm about to do to my car and all, and so when I take it in to the garage in a week or so I can tell them exactly what it is they're going to have to do to get the drop I want, rather than have them spend $48/hr trying to figure it out themselves. Not an efficient use of my money, if you can relate.
Yea, these are going to go on stock struts/shocks, my goal is to replace them with Tokicos as soon as possible, funds permitting. Lousy projects get expensive quick.
I'll just tell my install guy he's gonna have to cut off the strut perches one way or another in order to let the coilovers sit where they need to to get optimal drop, hopefully since he's familiar with this kinda thing he'll know what's up. Thanks Parsifal and BlingBling, I appreciate you humoring what must seem like a pretty newbie thing to be posting about. It's that whole, "If I don't know exactly what's going on how on earth am I supposed to get better at this sh*t" paradigm.
~David~