pete280z Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Anyone have a cusco 240z front strut bar handy? Can you confirm what material the strut tower brackets are made of? I'm switching to weld-in camber plates and the cusco bar looks like it would be easy to cut and weld to the towers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beezed Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Mine will hold a magnet, its steel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 I'm switching to weld-in camber plates and the cusco bar looks like it would be easy to cut and weld to the towers. I'm probably confused here, but if you weld the strut tower brace to the strut towers, how are you going to remove the cam cover for stuff like adjusting the lash? If you need to remove the engine, you'll have to drop the front crossmember and drop the engine from below. I think it would be difficult at best since you're welding thin gauge steel to WAY thicker gage steel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete280z Posted June 28, 2009 Author Share Posted June 28, 2009 Thanks beezed, sounds like this will work. This cusco bar is a three piece bar. Two brackets that bolt to the strut towers and a bar that bolts between them. I plan to trim the brackets so I can weld them to the strut towers after the camber plates have been welded in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Thanks for clearing that up Pete S. I realized that might be the case after I posted. Now I feel like an idiot The S130's Cusco bars don't have any joints at the mounting flange: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete280z Posted June 28, 2009 Author Share Posted June 28, 2009 No worries. As we'd say around here: "good lookin' out." I'd have a hard time living down a captive engine installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chemicalblue Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 yes you would, It might have even made it in the next news letter.... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rags Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Pete, What did you come up with? I too, am in the process of adding camber plates although I'm using the GC bolt in kit. I was looking at the strut bar that I'm taking off (origin unknown) and was thinking all I would need to make it work would be to make brackets that I would weld to the strut towers. Any ideas for what the bracets should look like? Guage steel to use? Thanks Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete280z Posted July 5, 2009 Author Share Posted July 5, 2009 Haven't made much progress on this. The strut bar I had was a straight bar with brackets that offset the mounting back behind the strut towers. Re-using that bar would involve some pretty involved bracket design, so I'm probably going to wind up with a cusco or similar bar. One that bends over the engine so it can be mounted on the center of the strut towers. I'm no expert (hardly even a novice) but the more I look at the cusco brackets, the more I think that just trimming and welding them isn't going to result in a very strong joint. Here are a couple of pictures of johnc's that I'm using as thought starters: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rags Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Pete, Thanks for the picture of JohnC's mount. Looks like something I will try to work from. Now maybe John will chime in and tell us what gauge metal was used Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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