Staggered shocks on the leaf spring 70's cars were a patch job for the antique leaf spring arrangement....Even then, they only worked about half ways decent... I've always been able to adjust the coilovers' valving enough to preclude the staggered shock patch... The one thing I really like about the forward mount coilover idea is (hopefully) being able to play with the rear end body lift or squat and using the bar angles and their instant center to control the hook.... My hope is to separate the two actions, and not have to comprimise either shock valving or bar angles to try to compensate for both hook and squat.... Probably none of this makes sense in writing, but I can "see" what I want the car to do!!!!!!