Strut Bar

[SA E30]

I need some help from u guys, seeing as the strut bars here in SA, r pretty bad, and shipping from overseas costs a fortune. I need someone to measure for me a Sparco or some type of strut bar.

I need to know what angle, it goes up from the strut tower. Also on the section that is Horizontal, is someone could measure the ditance from a point directly under it (such as the engine or such right under the bar) .

I'm thining of making it with some rectangular bar, not sure what guage (prob 2mm) I'm doing this as a little project of my own, I've already figured out the rear strut bar, just need to fabricate it.

BTW, I do have some skills when it comes to metal work.


Also I couldn't find any pictures of diffeernt types of bars for a research point of view, so if anyone has any pictures, that would also help.

Thanks
Steve

[uflnuceng]

Bite the bullet and order one from over here... then blueprint it, make a million of them and sell them on the local market.

Shouldn't be that hard to fabricate one though. Make 2 plates (one for each strut tower), bring two steel tubes (one fore each strut tower) coming up at a 90-degree angle from each tower. Get another straight piece of steel tubing and put it between the two and measure. You will probably want to mandrel bend the strut-to-strut tubing and then weld them to the bases that will sit on the strut towers.

[europeanplates]

Look on ebay under strutbracer, his prices are good and shipping is not that much. OMP ones are real close to the Sparco and better IMO.

Thanks

Tyler

[shanghai]

strut bar

If you planning on making one your self It's pretty easy built the strut towers frist then measure the inside put two bends and weld , any good welding shop can make it . good luck with what ever you're doing.