Originally posted by Plastique_synthetiX:Kind of cutting the sho shop bar, and then welding it onto the OMP brace so that it will hold both the top of the struts and the strut tower....
I'm not liking this at all either.
There's a bushing up there to allow some movement of the strut within the tower. In motorsports they replace bushing top mounts by pillow-ball (spherical bearing) assemblies, which take 100% of the flex away. They still don't go out and bolt the shaft directly to the car's chassis, and there's got to be a reason behind that.
One of them would definitely be caster. The angle of the strut pin in relationship to the strut tower should be allowed to change. I'm throwing ideas here as to why some failures have been observed with that SHO-shop bar.
