I made up a rear strut tower brace last week. I made the end plates by cutting with a die grinder, then shaping with my grinder. I have the plate dimensions if anyone's interested.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c58/jrcook320/Fall06004.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c58/jrcook320/Fall06005.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c58/jrcook320/Fall06008.jpg

I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-E-D! looks great! victor_ryanheart@hotmail.com
thanks! -Josh

very nice Jr. I too got something just like that. Good job!!

Greetings jrcook320, send me please on Guass@mail.ru, the Drawing. Thanks.

man I love to see stuff like that its really inspiring, it always feels good when sombody asks you where you got somthing and you say "I made it" its like saying
"yea I'm alot cooler than everybody else buying parts for their cars"

man I love to see stuff like that its really inspiring, it always feels good when sombody asks you where you got somthing and you say "I made it" its like saying
"yea I'm alot cooler than everybody else buying parts for their cars"

yup, it's cool... but it's not a competition... well, at least not for me... i'm fine with the size of my... foot.

ANYWAY, that's way cool Josh! Everything you come up with seems top notch.

That looks great. Notice any difference when you had installed it?

Hi JR

Can you email me the drawings and specs of the strut bar that you made for the back? my addy apricot@fongskingdom.com

tks

Specs here please!

mknoot @ comcast.net

I'd like to have them too. zaraak at mad dot scientist dot com

Ok, here's the drawing in .jpg format. Make the end brackets out of 1/8" steel. I ended up cutting mine in half and only using the 2 inside holes, they're much easier to make that way. I cut a 1" OD 1/8" wall tube to length after I installed the end plates. I had about 1 1/2" overlap and my bar was about 34" (if I recall correctly). You can either drill holes as in the drawing or weld like I did. If anyone wants the CAD file just email.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c58/jrcook320/Brace.jpg

ewwwww - are those dims in millimeters?

yeah, get your calculator out. I cheated when I made mine anyway. I printed it off to scale, cut one out and traced it on my plate.

yeah, get your calculator out. I cheated when I made mine anyway. I printed it off to scale, cut one out and traced it on my plate.

I print to scale and trace with the mill all the time at work. It's cheating but it works when people aren't concerned with thousandths of an inch. oh wait errr... millimeters sorry. I literally glue the paper to the piece I'm machining with rubber cement and trace it out with a 1/16 4 flute end mill. Works pretty well. 25.4 will be forever burned into my brain.

lol, I like the "typ. ø"















nerd

haha, yeah, 9.00 is pretty fine tolerance for "typical". I could have said ø 9.00 (10 places). Whatever floats your boat.

















and yes, I'm a nerd.

The sig figs anywhere on that drawing are a little... excessive.

sig figs? eh... I'll let you redraw it for me in inches with the proper tolerances. I just dimensioned it quickly enough for it to be reproducable.

significant figures. When tolerances aren't explicit (put down as notes or a part of the dimension) then the implied tolerance is plus or minus 1 sig fig. In your case it is .01mm plus or minus.

My boss would just bleed all over my drawing and send back to me.

We're just giving you a hard time. Like the grammar nazi's CJ and I are print nazi's I guess.

Everyone needs a print Nazi to keep them in line, thanks. yeah, those tolerances are excessively tight for what it is, it could be +- 1mm, not .01mm.

I'll admit my sweet drafting skills are rusty, I was a production supervisor for the last year and a half and a front office lady for a over year before that, haven't done much CAD or engineering work since I started as an "engineer" at Federal Mogul.

I just applied for two jobs at Federal Mogul.

Are you serious? What facility? I'm not sure this company is big enough for the both of us. You do know Fed Mo still bankrupt, right?

Are you serious? What facility? I'm not sure this company is big enough for the both of us. You do know Fed Mo still bankrupt, right?

Virginia. Just because I apply doesn't mean I'll take the job. The minute you stop looking for a job is the minute the perfect job passes you by. I apply for probably 5 to 6 jobs a month. Have my resume posted at probably 25 companies. It's important to keep yourself visible.

Virginia. Just because I apply doesn't mean I'll take the job. The minute you stop looking for a job is the minute the perfect job passes you by. I apply for probably 5 to 6 jobs a month. Have my resume posted at probably 25 companies. It's important to keep yourself visible.

Exactly, the problem with that for me is the headhunters call me at work. We have a guy here whose sole purpose is headhunting, so they cant say anything to me.I have an oppertunity to go to Dubai that I am actually concidering...

I have an oppertunity to go to Dubai that I am actually concidering...

CJ, you should consider that Dubai thing too.

JR - Nice strut tower brace thingie BTW. Now continue with the work related hi-jinx. Fed Mog has a few manufacturing process engineering jobs (what I do now) and a few designer / drafter jobs (what I love). No ME stuff though (what I went to school for). Who knows if they'll call.

Hey JR, do you have a drawing for a front brace as well? :D

Not really. A guy from Russia sent me one in Russian a few weeks ago after I sent him my rear brace drawing, but it was incomplete.

I could probably take some measurements and draw something up.

Josh..Nice work.
I had the BMP ones, but they where lost.

nice work, that gives you the satisfaction of MAKING and INSTALLING your own work, very nice.