[Shotimes] Strut Tower Modification

[Carl Prochilo]

You're welcome.  A definite case of "a picture is worth a thousand
words."
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
1992 Ultra Red Crimson

Kevin & Cheryl Airth said:
> Carl:
>  Great pictures!! This is just what I was looking for. I have the
> Tokico's
> and Eibach's ready to go on the car!
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>> A while back I had posted on my attempt to modify the strut towers
>> to decrease negative camber and increase positive caster, needed
>> by
>> some us running a modified suspension with the likes of Tokicos
>> and
>> Eibachs.  At the time I did the work, I neglected to take pictures
>> of the slots I made in the towers so here are two that are quite
>> good.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3anev
>>
>> Couple of things to note.  I marked the location of the strut
>> plates
>> with a permanent marker so as not to lose the benefit of the
>> alignment I had done.  Also you will note that stamped on the
>> tower
>> are some crosshairs that are presumably to note the limits of
>> where
>> the strut can be located in the tower.
>>
>> I had opened these up to try adding the fender washers that Georgy
>> Fourchy was suggesting earlier as a quick fix for the sticking
>> during the rotation of the struts during steering.  After test
>> driving the car (there is still some groaning, I'm concluding that
>> one of the strut bearings may be bad, this observation being made
>> because when I had the car up and manipulating the bearing itself,
>> one was moving more freely than the other.  This will a topic for
>> another time as I want to now disassemble the strut assembly and
>> inspect all the hardware.
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Carl Prochilo
>> 1992 Ultra Red Crimson