Strut Tower Bar and KLZE MS8 IM

[Nd4SpdSe]

Me and C-MX-DA3 both found out the hard way that my corksport and his ractive bar dont fit anymore with our KLZE's and the Curved-Neck Intake Manifold. <p>-Is there any know way to get it to fit?
-Has anyone gotten one to fit?

[Spydie]

yes..it has been accomplished. You can remove the strut bar brackets and add washers to the bolts sticking up until it sits high enough to clear th IM. it wouldn't hurt to JB weld the washers to the brackets after to add some extra rigidity

[Tyler17rose]

hood clearence ?

[Spydie]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by T-Rose:
hood clearence ? <hr></blockquote><p>uh...we're not talking about raising 3 inches or anything Tyler. It only needs about 1/4" to clear the IM. It's been done before I've seen it<p> <p>you could bend the brackets as well...I've heard of that before too....probably not the best idea in the world though
I can't be certain how well the bar will perform after so just try and see. There's a dude on cardomain who did it...somewhere<p>[ August 06, 2003: Message edited by: Darren Hyderman ]</p>

[Nd4SpdSe]

it wont work, i have the bar sitting right at the top of the bots, so high thats there not anough room for the nuts, and it still hits that damn screw

[Spydie]

well I have seen an MX3 with a MS8 and strut bar. All I can think of is longer studs or some other modification to the bar itself

[Tyler17rose]

I bet the Ractive one would fit. I'll be a nice guy and trade you straight up my ractive bar for your corksport bar . That should fix this problem nicely.

[monty73741]

fernado, has the corkport mx-3 they have a custom bar that goe behind the intake manifold...<p>jason

[C-MX-DA3]

T-ROSE how do you know the ractive bar would fit?do have klze with curve im.

[Tyler17rose]

hehe i was only jokin, it doesnt fitat all, because i actually bought it second hand off a fellow mx-3'er that couldnt use it anymore after he did the swap.

[C-MX-DA3]

i just installed my strut bar yesterday, so heres what i did: i set the bar on top of the existing bolts and i got some used bolts off an mx3 from the junk yard, and just bolted the bars, the bar is sitting right on the I.M, i dont know if this is bad, but it works. ( this for people who have mellenia manifold w/ klze)

[Spydie]

i don't really get what you did. can you explain again?

[Nd4SpdSe]

K, here is my bar trying to fit on my KLZE w/MS8 IM
(BTW, there are my first pics i;ve taken of my KLZE)<p>First Pic: Bar Just Barely Getting onto the Bolts, butnot low enough to get a nut on
http://www.ndspdse.net/klze-bar2.jpg <p>Second Pic: Bar Not Capable of getting onto the bolts
http://www.ndspdse.net/klze-bar3.jpg <p>Third Pic: Bar Hitting the Intake Manifold
http://www.ndspdse.net/klze-bar4.jpg <p>Fouth Pic: The nut on the top of the IM actually touches the hood's padding, and riped into it when it torques back
http://www.ndspdse.net/klze-bar5.jpg<p>Fifth Pic: Hood padding residue from the IM torque-scrapping (its teh hard to see yellow residue)
http://www.ndspdse.net/klze-bar1.jpg<p>Even if i could get it on, i dont wanna have my IM constantly scrapping into my strut tower bar, it'll proraply weaken it up bad. And even worse is that i wanna get thermal spacers before the end of the summer, but only once i get this strut towr bar problem figured out.<p>[ August 12, 2003: Message edited by: Nd4SpdSe ]</p>

[C-MX-DA3]

i just have to take picture of the strut bar on, to explain it better. sorry if i confused you.

[monty73741]

it seems that different klze have higher intake manifolds<p>b/c when i help this guy hank with his the intake manifold site on top of the hood padding