How to bend front E30 struts?

[romkasponka]

[JGood]

^^^^^^^^^^


are you serious?

That's a great shot, a strut housing turned 60 degrees and redrilled, with the BMW safety and warranty sticker right below it.

[BM5W]

I also like the additional spacer/bolt! You had the car aligned with this "mod"?

If it works, that is a damn cheap mod.

[nando]

it's actually not that uncommon to redrill the strut tower.. however it looks like you moved it the wrong way, you'd want to move it closer in to the center of the car for more negative camber. it's hard to tell at that angle though.

[craz azn]

^^ I have to agree with Nando here.... looks like you just changed the 'caster' instead of changing the camber, because the mount is still relatively in the center of the tower still....well, maybe even looks a tad to the outside making it positive camber, LOL.... ( BTW I'm assuming this is a pic of the front left strut tower, and thats the fuse box to the right of the strut tower)

[papajetta]

thats awesome, would have never thought of that, however i wouldn't try bemding it on my own, 1-3 degrees is pretty precise, next thing u know u could bend them to 10 degrees and f--- it all up

[hopeful]

wow that looks butcherish. (the redrilled strut tower). However, funny enough thats standard procedure on some cars (done it myself on a Ford Taurus, thats what the procedure is for those cars when the Camber needs to be adjusted).

I've been doing alignments for roughly only one year now and we've never pulled a strut. It could technically be done on these cars if the bend is below the damper inside the housing (not sure, never took it off).

Most bending I've seen being done on cars at alignment shops usually is random pulling on bushings which is bizarre.

[603Racing]

My guess would be that it was redrilled to reduce negative camber after lower springs were added.

I added camber plates to get back to -1.5 on my daily driver with H&R race springs. I want my tires to last more than 10k miles.