IE strut bar touching intake manifold

[Luke318is]

http://e30.iamgary.com/ireland-engineering-strut-tower-brace-install/

God damn man. I thought ireland engineering made good stuff. /facepalm

[Luke318is]

Ya its weird. Ive found like 6 other posts with no solution other than washers or hammers.

Id like to find the source of the problem, but maybe its just shitty build quality, although somehow i doubt it

[mr.vang]

Mine is not touching, and I have akg motor mount. I bought it used though, so that is unrelenvent since the PO might have mess with it.

[Luke318is]

same problem here. Seems to be fairly common with a bit of googling. I wonder if its a certain motor mount from a certain vendor thats causing these issues.

http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=119332

[bmw325csi]

My posts weren't meant to be "bashing" I wasn't happy with he quality of the first 2 bars but the third one was fine, it would just touch the manifold. I got it worked out and have been using it for a while.

[gtarwiz]

Mine touched the manifold also, I just spaced it up with a washer.

[SkiFree]

I can understand the frustration, it was a bit odd. I don't know why that was the case. After the show I test fit it on a few cars here and it fit. No hard feelings, sometimes that kind of thing happens.

[Shanes325]

You was bashing the bar but now ur okay with it when confronted ?

[bmw325csi]

oh hello!

I mean no disrespect towards you guys or your products. I love I.E.
After all I am still rocking the bar.

[SkiFree]

I was that guy.

[bmw325csi]

I had no issues with the bmp bar or the Sparco bar. They both fit my car flawlessly. I even had the IE guy look at my car at bimmerfest when I got the third bar and he was stumped too.

[SkiFree]

Wowzer .... if you went through 3 bars and none initially fit, you might start thinking its maybe the car and not the bar?

Jacking up the car can/does change the distance of the shock towers regardless of the bar.

[bmw325csi]

Step one should be to talk to IE. Ask them if they have encountered anyone with the same issue before.

So has your car even been in a wreck?

The first 2 bars I got from IE were crap. The third bar still didn't fit. I had Castro notch the bar, then it took me and 2 of my buddies to get it on.

Ps. Jacking up the car doesn't do shit for installing a crap bar.

[Northern]

Yeah, it hits. Mine's in the garage until the 24v goes in.

[bastianshaw]

i have that bar on both my cars and it hit the manifold on both, i just whack it w a hammer to flat spot it right there