Do you still have the wiper cowl?

Congrats Steve on a great choice in the KW's
I recently fitted a set of these (also thanks to Dylan) and the car feels great with them.
Surprisingly good ride for daily driving when using softer settings for both bump and rebound.
 
And yeah, important to tighten strut bolts properly. The Toyota service manual says 188 ft/lbs, and as has been mentioned, that is well into breaker bar territory.
 
 
 
 

PrivateJoker
Do you still have the wiper cowl?

Yep I've still got the wiper cowl, but haven't installed it yet. I decided that I didn't want to go single wiper OR LHD conversion due to poor coverage. I ended up taking it to a carbon fibre specialist to see about getting the cowling converted instead.
 
Turns out its a pretty simple job, just drill the hole in the right space and use the carbon fibre from that to plug up the unused hole! I had a few clutch issues which needed to be taken care of first though so I haven't had the money to get it done yet.
 
Reddtarga the KW's are great, hands down the best money I've spent on the car! I just wish they came with camber plates from KW. I don't have a great deal of clearance between the rims and the coilover so I can't run much camber at all at the moment. I just need to get the spring diameter and send it through to Dylan and he'll hook me up with some Cusco camber plates which will sort that out.
 
Have you had the chance to push the car since installing yours, or just daily driving so far?

Steve, just daily driving so far with bump and rebound settings about 2 clicks off soft to give a good ride.
But for the next track day I'll certainly stiffen them up to see what happens.
A great feature of these coil-overs is the ability to easily reset them again to exactly what you had before.

Re potholes and welding up that elongated hole in the KW bracket:
Unfortunately like most coilovers, KW's also have the problem of tyre clearance with the fronts.
I use stock strut tops, and on the fronts I run - 1 degree camber (close to stock) giving only about 3 mm tyre/coil clearance, so in my case I doubt if welding them up to make them round would help much, because there would only have to be a tiny bit of movement for the tyre to rub on the front coil. You would also loose camber adjust-ability.
 
My solution to prevent this ever happening was to first carefully check for the right camber and the bolts for tightness.
Then I fitted a spacer/wedge in between the hub and the strut body at the top. Since the elongated hole is at the top, that should totally stop any tendency for the hub to rotate in the bracket.
I only fitted these to the fronts because the rears have heaps of tyre/strut clearance anyway.
 
These were made from aluminum with the inside surface concave to match the shape of the strut, and the step at the top makes for easy removal.
They were carefully ground down to the right thickness with a very slight taper, and are tapped in so they are wedged tight, then wired so they can't fall out.