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The struts you can buy are an inner cartridge, you reuse your outer housing and spring. That's why it's much easier to do both strut (cartridges) and springs at once as you have to take the Macpherson Strut assembly completely apart. The cartridge sits in a cooling fluid (KYB recommends straight antifreeze).
Harbor Freight has a spring compression tool that allows you to do the job fairly easy. You must compress the spring before you take the assembly apart as it is under tension and will sproing with painful results otherwise.
The SC strut housing does have a tab on the rear, about 3/4" below the spring cup, it measures about 1 1/4" tall and sticks out about as far. You can fabricate and weld on a couple of tabs if you remove the assembly and strut cartridge. Don't think it would be good to try and weld on the tabs with the cartridge and cooling fluid in place.
The NA car (I can only speak for the 89) has bolt holes tapped in the "frame" for the mounting of the sway bar to the car.
Hope this helps
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