strut brace
03-30-2008, 11:44 AM
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hey everyone, today i was doing some spring cleaning on my car to get her ready for summer and i pulled a stupid 
i had the intake and throttle body off cleaning them out and boy did they need it. while it was off i did the throttle body bypass mod. after putting them back on i forgot to put the strut brace back on shut the hood and took it up the road to test it out. i was about 30 seconds up the road when i realised that i had forgotten the strut brace so i went back and put it on and now it's a little bit miss aligned, my engine cover doesn't fit anymore. is this bad?(i'm guessing so) and how can i fix this?
i had the intake and throttle body off cleaning them out and boy did they need it. while it was off i did the throttle body bypass mod. after putting them back on i forgot to put the strut brace back on shut the hood and took it up the road to test it out. i was about 30 seconds up the road when i realised that i had forgotten the strut brace so i went back and put it on and now it's a little bit miss aligned, my engine cover doesn't fit anymore. is this bad?(i'm guessing so) and how can i fix this?
03-30-2008, 12:54 PM
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hey everyone, today i was doing some spring cleaning on my car to get her ready for summer and i pulled a stupid i had the intake and throttle body off cleaning them out and boy did they need it. while it was off i did the throttle body bypass mod. after putting them back on i forgot to put the strut brace back on shut the hood and took it up the road to test it out. i was about 30 seconds up the road when i realised that i had forgotten the strut brace so i went back and put it on and now it's a little bit miss aligned, my engine cover doesn't fit anymore. is this bad?(i'm guessing so) and how can i fix this?
i had the intake and throttle body off cleaning them out and boy did they need it. while it was off i did the throttle body bypass mod. after putting them back on i forgot to put the strut brace back on shut the hood and took it up the road to test it out. i was about 30 seconds up the road when i realised that i had forgotten the strut brace so i went back and put it on and now it's a little bit miss aligned, my engine cover doesn't fit anymore. is this bad?(i'm guessing so) and how can i fix this?
03-30-2008, 01:01 PM
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Unless you had the shock bolts off as well...you will be OK. Just re-re the bar.
If you had a non-OEM bar...you might have to push the top of the shock around a bit to get everything to line up. Don't worry...it doesn't effect your alignment or anything
If you had a non-OEM bar...you might have to push the top of the shock around a bit to get everything to line up. Don't worry...it doesn't effect your alignment or anything
03-30-2008, 03:57 PM
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the passenger side is a bit closer to the front of the car than it normally is. like the bar doesn't fit in the grooves of the engine cover.
thanks guys for all yer help i was a bit worried
it's definately great havin' a place like this to calm my nerves
thanks guys for all yer help i was a bit worried
it's definately great havin' a place like this to calm my nerves
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03-30-2008, 04:11 PM
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You should be okay, but if you find you need it, I do have the OEM strut bar and brackets for sale.....cheap.
Shipping to Canada shouldn't be too extreme.
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-parts-sale-wanted-44/fs-couple-oem-items-remain-138818/
Dave
Shipping to Canada shouldn't be too extreme.
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-parts-sale-wanted-44/fs-couple-oem-items-remain-138818/
Dave
03-30-2008, 04:42 PM
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Hmmm, I'd try putting it up on jack stands to take the pressure off of the strut towers. Also, this seems kinda obivous but I gotta ask, are you trying to put one side all the way on the lower the other one on? You should drop both sides of the bar down onto the studs at the same time.
04-03-2008, 08:20 PM
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Take the bar off completely, go to a local mazda dealership, tell them that in a fit of drunken stupidity your friends convinced you to remove "this bar thingy" from your car (say that so they don't think you were purposefully working on the car because you don't even know the proper terminology for it). Then you can have a trained service tech who understands the concepts presented to you in this thread reinstall the bar correctly and you'll be fine.
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