Strut Tower Brace Design Revisited

[Phil and Judy Rose]

At 4:44 PM -0500 2/28/05, Sean wrote:
>
>4.  It would seem important to note that the close-up pic of my 
>car's stress fracture shows that after the fracture, the two edges 
>of fractured metal do not remain aligned.  Rather, the left or 
>outbound side (as one looks under the hood at the fracture) is about 
>1/8 inch higher than the right side.  In other words, it looks as if 
>someone grabbed the sheet metal on left side of fracture and pulled 
>it up (though nobody did so).
>http://coriatykids.com/wst_page2.html

Ouch! I've never seen one quite so bad (i.e., split and offset like 
that). I'd suspect collision damage somewhere in her past. Or 
super-firm strut inserts? BTW, what the heck is that strange, black 
truncated cone-shaped "intruder" that's sitting just in front of the 
firewall?

Phil


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