Unacceptable: tubular upper control arms with no bump stop pads.

DionR said

You mean the SPC 2.0 arms?

Maybe the shock limits the droop. :D

I guess someone could argue that droop is less important than compression unless the car pulls the front tires on the strip. Not that it never happens, but I would bet the suspension being at full droop happens mostly when the car gets jacked up. But just an assumption.

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Yep, with the 2.0 arms.

I wouldn’t leave it to the shock to limit the suspension extension. Under normal conditions that down stop probably won’t be as much force as the compression stop, but I still wouldn’t leave it to the shock.

On the street it’s fairly uncommon to completely unload the suspension, but on road courses and even AutoX courses it’s not crazy to see a car completely picking up an inside wheel on hard cornering.

It’s something you could get away with, but personally I’d make sure it hit a stop before it hit full shock extension. Or unloaded the torsion bar adjusters on a lowered car with large torsion bars that have a narrower range of loaded travel like mine.