background: stock type 1 irs & driveline, long springs. so, I got a little carried away notching my spring plates and I wound up with about 1/4" rather than the 1/8" I intended... and the optimist in me rationalizes that at full droop, the axle is still able to move back and forth about 1/8-1/4" and it doesn't feel like the joints are binding, and I have the spring preload such that "normal" resting ride height is at the pre-notched maximum, and the notched area is making up the droop, so they won't spend a whole lot of time at the maximum angle, but I'm still afraid I'll be blowing up CVs. Now, I know you can read all over the internet about how you can't notch with stock cvs, etc etc etc. Anyone have any first-hand or second hand knowledge? I've found some replacements for the same price as the longer shocks I was going to use... so either way I go I'm out the same $. (and no, I don't have $$$ for t2 stuff)

I must have mine notched mine at least a 1/2 inch.. It really does not matter how much you notch the spring plate. It is more important to look at the angle of your axle at ride height and full droop..

Yes, the movement is also important but I have found that the angle will break my CV's before the length.

It you are running stock Type 1 CV joints, you do not have a lot of angle to play with. If you do not have a way to measure you angles, they sell these at HomeDepot for a few bucks.

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I've got one on my workbench to take home tonight. I also read about clocking the joints in relation to each other...

When I was maxing out my angles, I would hear a clicking sounds. After I clocked the CV joints, the sound went away..

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well, I found that at stock limit droop the axle is at about 14 degrees and with the notch it's at about 20. I also found that at full compression the 3" longer compressed length shocks I was going to use are going to bottom out... so I'm going back to stock with the springs turned up a notch, which is what I should have done in the first place but the spring plate was in my hand and the bench grinder was just a few feet away...