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fitting a strut brace

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:10 pm
by paladin
HEY PPLS

mm having a bit of trouble with my strut brace...

upon ariving a strut brace that suposivly came out of a wrecked fto, i tryed fittign it (having done it to a few cars now..) and i have run into two problems!

1) it touches and holds down the cap on the brake fluid container

2) to make it fit i would have to move the electricle connector in teh back middle of the fire wall

what i need to know is, can i leave it sitting on the brake flujid container

and is it okay for me to jsut relocate the big electricle thing (sensor or wtich?)

i can leave hte rest of the wires there no problems

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 10:34 pm
by mrx
Odd - I have seen a couple of FTO strut braces, and they have not gone near the brake fluid cap. Or that electrical connector on the firewall for that matter.

Any pictures of it? Any idea of brand etc?

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 11:10 pm
by FTO338
All the one i've seen so far are very close to brake fluid cap, but i don't remember its close to electricle connector.

Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 7:24 am
by afterburner
I have the standard FTO GPvR strut brace and it does sit very close to the brake fluid cap. It doesn't quite touch it, and you can get it off with a bit of difficulty though.

Here is mine:

http://www.atom.net.nz/afterburner/fto/engine.jpg

Does yours look similar?

Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 11:46 am
by DZYRME
Mine is no where near it.

Here is mine:

http://www.dzyrme.com/100_1276.JPG

Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 12:11 pm
by FTO338
Hey Bren, where did you get yours from? All the one i've seen are like Afterburner's