Received my strut brace today :lolcry:

 

Big thanks to Lindsay!!!

 

I'm also a bit disappionted.........but only with the crap quality/color of the paint. I planned on powder coating them later anyway, but looks like its gonna be sooner rather than later. I havent fitted it yet, but ill get some pics up once i do :fuzz:

anyone got a pic of theirs installed yet?

 

i'm going to have to wait until i lower my motor which will probably only happen when i get a w5x gearbox in a year or two.

anyone got a pic of theirs installed yet?

 

i'm going to have to wait until i lower my motor which will probably only happen when i get a w5x gearbox in a year or two.

Ill be dropping my motor in this week so ill trail fit it and take a pic :)

mine doesnt fit.......

 

even at its narrowest its still to wide

 

NOT HAPPY!

yeah, its so bodgy. i reckon you could get a hacksaw out and make it shorter. its just that we shouldn't have to, whats so frustrating is that the pic on the Techno Toy Tuning website shows an obviously different strut brace, why they sent these shit ones over is beyond me. i wanted the one on their website because it lifts the actual bar up an inch which is all i need to clear the inlet manifold. i got no reply email when i complained.

yeah, its so bodgy. i reckon you could get a hacksaw out and make it shorter. its just that we shouldn't have to, whats so frustrating is that the pic on the Techno Toy Tuning website shows an obviously different strut brace, why they sent these shit ones over is beyond me. i wanted the one on their website because it lifts the actual bar up an inch which is all i need to clear the inlet manifold. i got no reply email when i complained.

 

yeah, i'd have to agree about the fact they come straight out, and don't have any height relief. i wasn't able to fit it with the stock airbox/filter...but i did manageto get mine to fit, just took a bit of time.

 

take the adjusting nuts from both rose joints, and then wind the bar onto both of them.

fit the rose joints to strut plates.

remove the nuts and washers from one strut.

put the strut plate onto the strut tower, push it outwards as much as possible and do up with/without the washers (i went without)

then fit the otherside as you did the first side.

 

pics are available of it installed in my ride thread (able to reach it via my sig)

so would you recommend these strut braces??

if you can't find one locally for the same price, one that you can check out before buying...then maybe you'd buy one of these.

 

i can't see these lasting for a long time on a track car, but then i really don't know how strong it is.

 

i'd suggest getting the bar shortened by 10mm at each end if you wanted to get one from T3.

i wasn't able to fit it with the stock airbox/filter...

 

 

i couldn't recommend it to anyone.

i couldn't recommend it to anyone.

 

Ouch.

 

Still would love to check if it fits my car and if it looks any good.

 

but so far t3 FTMFL!

i forgot to measure mine for you jono, mine was too short at the maximum undone-ness :fuzz:

Ouch.

 

Still would love to check if it fits my car and if it looks any good.

 

but so far t3 FTMFL!

 

remind me next time and i'll bring it along.

last friday my mate brought his tools around and measured me up for a carbon fibre front strut brace.

 

saw it for the first time this morning sans clearcoat and epoxy.

 

will hopefully have it in a week or two. i'll get pics of it when i'm around there this weekend.

 

the thing is light as buggery....330ish grams currently, will be less than 450g when finished. he's made this one with the least material he's prepared to put into it.

 

this is the 2nd one he's made, the first being a rear strut brace for his ae82 twincam. his one weighs around 680g.

 

anyway, i'll stop talking now until i have pics for you all

 

cheers dF

ripping up an old thread here, but has anyone successfully found a strut brace to fit onto the ke20's?

as i posted earlier, the one i had fitted sweetly in the Red Rocket.

 

you're welcome to come round and try it out one night/weekend if you wanted.....

 

co-incidentally, i need to sell it. :)

Edited January 18, 201115 yr by dfunkt