And as to the angle issue I don’t think it would help. But with a 1/8 spacer and/or the shortened shocks it ain’t an issue.
I've often heard it said that with lowered car you need dampers for lowered cars although no one ever seems to know how low you need to go before switching from standard dampers to dampers for lowered cars.
I had always though that if retaining the bump stops standard dampers would always be sufficient as the suspension could never go further on full bump than standard anyway no matter what the initial ride height - even if it was sitting on the bump stops as many badly maintained Minis do anyway.
When changing the springs on mine I checked full bump front and rear with the springs removed and found that the standard height dampers still had travel left in them.
Later I discovered it was more to do with retaining the spring location on full rebound when the trumpet was shortened and shortened dampers would help here. The plating on the rebound rubber would do a similar job but I'm not sure how much.
I wonder how many cars are running around on shortened dampers because they have been lowered half an inch from standard and now just have unecessarily reduced suspension travel.
How low do the racers go and what do they do about bump stops?