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nice

 

looking nice. who's making these? i'm definitly interested in this, but wont have money for a while. is this a one time deal?

 

It's a no name brand, a local guy to me made them on a CNC machine. Getting them made is half the deal, the other is the praticality and we wont know until I get them installed.

 

VERY nice.


So it looks like you're going to remove the stock bearing plate and bushing, and the OEM bearing presses into the smaller aluminum piece that mounts to the top of the strut?

nice work. I'm definitely interested. I KNOW they'll work, as long as you have a good shop do the alignment. one thing to watch out for though is hood clearanace.. does the top plate mount on top of the strut tower inside the car, or below it? I assume you just stick it together with 3 bolts through that plate and the strut towers in the car...

back to the hood clearance thing.. you MIGHT need to machine some wider grooves for the nuts/bolts to slide through, not mount on top of... the problem is there just isn't much room between the top of the strut tower and the hood. I had some 4 awg wires running along there for my stereo, and it smashed them between the strut tower and the hood.

try mounting them up and see where you go. if they fit, I'm VERY interested and have the money anytime.

 

You hit it right on the nose. The larger plate will be going under the strut tower. Our biggest concern it the clearance within the sturt tower and will the spring hit anything. We made the holes big enough for 3/8 bolts and I will be using grade 8 bolts. Nothing will be install on top of the strut tower for guys who have the strut bars, like myself. Today I rented a spring compressor from local parts store and will be attempting the install Sun. This piece is alot stronger than the OEM stamp piece. Like you said finding a competent alignment tech gonna be rough, they are use to only setting the toe on FWD Nissan

 

May I ask what happened with these?

 

Matt93gxe...

 

shhhhh

 

Teh matt smackdown?

 

they're sitting in a box on my garage floor, where they've been for the last 4 years.

 

Yes you may. There was a major design flaw with the plates which wasn't apparent until you've had them installed for a couple months. What would happen is that the actual shaft of the strut would break at the top where the nut is threaded onto the shaft. Luckily only a hand full of people bought the plates, some found out the hard way (including myself) while others were able to avoid the carnage. Due to schedule conflicts we never had a chance to correct the flaw.

 

I had a set of monoball bearings fitted into mine, which solved the problem. but I wound up doing something completely different and they're been sitting in my garage ever since.

 

That explains it.

So Matt, what are you running now?

 

What if you made them out of steel?

 

making them out of steel won't make a difference. the problem is/was a small, but important design flaw that caused the strut shaft to flex and fatigue at the end, and eventually snap.
that's why every other design you see out there has rubber (OEM) or monoball bearings (aftermarket) to allow the things to pivot at the top.

Sutter, I'm using a custom setup now.. modified 4th gen mounts and slotted the strut tower bolts to get additional camber and caster.

 

So, redesigning them to accomodate either the rubber or monoball bearings SHOULD correct the flaw, then??

And for those that aren't "in the know", I realize that what I said SOUNDS easy enough, but being an installer for 15 years has taught me one indelible(sp) fact - nothing is EVER as easy as one might think.

 

Nice Max!!!

 

Yup.
I did that with mine several years ago and it solved the problem. I ran with them for quite a while, but have gone to different mounts for several other reasons. they worked just fine after adding the monoballs.

 

Having only 2 bolts for the adjuster was fine? Seems like it would twist.

Matt whats better about the 4th gen mounts? Where did you mod them? Are you running them with GC's?

 

I may be interested in buying these in a few weeks..

 

woohoo...good to see they survived your driving.

 

if there was some serious interest i might be able to slap a few together....but for some reason i doubt it.

 

I hear ya there, bro. Kind of a "pie-in-the-sky" thing for the vast majority of folks here.

 

Danny you know the age old question:

How much?

 

i think Candi did them for $270...i'm sure it's going to be somewhere around there or even a little more...like i said...i highly doubt someone will even get it.

 

Yeah, what was I thinking 7yrs ago. Create a mod that the 3rd gen community will buy, silly me.

 

c'mon man...give yourself some credit...imo it was awsome part for the 3rd gen. it's just too bad many of the serious modders for the 3rd gen community are long gone now....if they are here there's only a handfull of them lurking around.

 

for sure...I'm STILL looking for your rear caliper brackets to complete my BBK. Yards don't have 89 brackets so for now I've been SOL. I guess I'll just keep waiting....