Guys,

Gettting my 85 ready for the GRM $2002 Challenge in February and I was looking for some items that would help me in the autocross.

I have seen several people with a homemade Front Strut Bar. I have lost the URL.

Who out there has made their own Strut Bar. Do you have any pictures, material list, so I can look at it to see what I need to
make my own.


Thanks for all the help.

Cole

 

Here, a hundred dollars and you have one.
http://ca.geocities.com/farmz1ca/RX7_Strut_Bars.html

 

click here

http://www.rotaryengineillustrated.c...s/P6160035.htm

pic of my engine compartment taken from the SS4 in 6/01.

 

I haven't made one yet but I've made enough fancy little brackets and doodads... probably the easiest way would be to get a length of 1x1" square steel tubing (cost: about $10-15 from DIY/Lowe's/Hope Depot/etc.) and cut it to the right length, flatten the ends (just pop the ends in a vise diagonal-wise and squish!) and drill a hole in each end to bolt to one of the strut bolts. I don't know how well that will clear anything, though...

If you have a welder (probably do if you're entering the Challenge right?) you could make your own little mini-brackets and weld tubing together. Materials... same stuff, same theory, except less crushing and more welding If you don't have a welder, get a MIG set and some books, your life will improve dramatically once you can weld!

1x1" steel tube is wonderful stuff. So is angle iron. I've made a kart frame, special flywheel holders and E-shaft stoppers, a camera mount, various jigs, some modern art when I was teaching myself to weld... (weld two things together, cut one off, weld it on in a different spot, try different types of joints, etc.)

 

Here is another setup that you could get from mazdatrix...