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Whiteline strut braces for T/RA-23s, 28s, R/MA-40s and 60s	Tue, 09 July 2002 03:36

After running around on dyno day with Wojtek from Whiteline, test fitting the strut brace he made up to fit my car to as many different celicas as possible, we found it'll fit 23, 28 and 40 series celicas (and MA-45s), and the strut tops are the same for M/RA-60s. Problem with the 60s is, because the engine bays are wider, someone would have to go down to Minto to visit whiteline to have them measure it up properly. Speaking from experience it would deffinately be worth it, if anyone's interested in one. As for us 23, 28 or 40 series owners, our only problem is what motor we have chosen to power our celicas. Those who have chosen 1Gs will have some clearance issues, depending on how low the engine is mounted, and the same goes for those with 3T-GTEs. In both cases it was a part of the throttle body I'm pretty sure. At the moment, the strut brace bar is straight, and does have a fair bit of bonnet clearance, and from what we could see the other day, either 1 or 2 bends in the bar would provide it with bonnet clearance. You would only need 2 bends if you wanted the bar to be symetrical, otherwise one bend right above the throttle body would do the trick. Other motors that were tried and had no clearance probs were mine (4A-GE), an 18R-C without the big round blue airfilter, which could come close if it was in place, and I think it was a 5M, on gas (allans car). 2Ts rotors shouldn't have issues either. Thing is, if we want to get a bulk purchase and recieve a 15% discount (rather that $15 discount which I said in the other post) which makes the bars $152 rather than $179, we need to order 10 or more strut braces with straight bars, and have them all delivered to 1 place (or all picked up together or whatever), and make one single payment for all the bars. To do this, everyone would have to pay me (if you all trust me enough )up front, then the bars would have to be distributed by me. Then everyone with engine clearance issues would have to either get the bars bent themselves, or take it down to Whiteline and have Wojtek bend it up for you. Wojtek will be able to bend it up real nice, without leaving any marks, but he says the bar is not real hard to bend, so I'm sure most of us will be able to manage it, or know someone more local if they live far away who could do it. So any way, let me know what you all think, if we can get more that 10 people definitely keen, we should do it for sure. [Report message to a moderator]

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