Wunderladen Racing: Front Strut Lock Group Buy!

[pinhead66]

Do these interfere with the installation of a strut tower bar at all? Looking at the 27Won with the brake master brace, specifically.

I have the Sirimoto bar and it worked ok. There's still enough room for full thread engagement with the nuts. Not sure how thick the 27won plate is though.

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[Austin@Wunderladen Racing]

Do these interfere with the installation of a strut tower bar at all? Looking at the 27Won with the brake master brace, specifically.

Fitment will depend on the bar's ability to fit with the struts not centered with the factory alignment pins. Unfortunately I don't have any firsthand experience with strut bars on this platform.

 

[DYI01]

@Austin@Wunderladen Racing I just confirmed fitment of these strut top locks on an 11th gen Si after removing the OEM alignment pins. They will work with a 27Won strut tower bar since the holes in the mounting plates are sotted. One of the studs is longer so you almost get full engagement, but on two of the studs you get about only 5-6 threads of engagement on the nuts.

 

[Austin@Wunderladen Racing]

@Austin@Wunderladen Racing I just confirmed fitment of these strut top locks on an 11th gen Si after removing the OEM alignment pins. They will work with a 27Won strut tower bar since the holes in the mounting plates are sotted. One of the studs is longer so you almost get full engagement, but on two of the studs you get about only 5-6 threads of engagement on the nuts.

Thanks for testing them on the 11th gen! I would definitely want to see all nuts have full thread engagement ideally.

 

[pinhead66]

Thanks for testing them on the 11th gen! I would definitely want to see all nuts have full thread engagement ideally.

Unfortunately, it's the same story on the 10th gen as well. The strut locks combined with the 27won strut bar doesn't allow enough thread engagement for the nuts to be safe. I opted to keep my 27won bar with master cylinder brace I got for a very good deal here and sold the strut locks to another member recently.

My question is, can another version of the strut locks be made where the washer plate is thinner to allow more thread engagement on the nuts? Or is it not structurally possible to do that?

 

[Austin@Wunderladen Racing]

Unfortunately, it's the same story on the 10th gen as well. The strut locks combined with the 27won strut bar doesn't allow enough thread engagement for the nuts to be safe. I opted to keep my 27won bar with master cylinder brace I got for a very good deal here and sold the strut locks to another member recently.

My question is, can another version of the strut locks be made where the washer plate is thinner to allow more thread engagement on the nuts? Or is it not structurally possible to do that?

Potentially. Do you have a photo or an idea on how much of the threads aren't being engaged with both the lock and strut bar installed? We could probably go 1mm thinner on the top but they're only 2.5mm thick at the moment so we can't go much thinner than that. It may be that longer studs in the top hats are needed to get enough threads for the nut the engage.

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