200 strut TOWER brace

[Geraint Lloyd]

Guys

thanks for all of the input

Bernie,

I am trying to get the bar on whilst the car is still on the frame machine
I am also considering using a bent bar to deal with the brake reservoir,
but (hear me out) bolting it onto the front of the airbox plenum at
several points with some 2mm plate as a stiffener

Might that be in line with your order of magnitude stiffer?

the strut brace will come later....... but come it will......

any news on that Mr LL-NY?

Geraint



Bernie Benz wrote:
> G,
>
> Nothing wrong with adding a tower brace to reinforce a damaged tower  
> if you have first corrected the misalignment on the frame machine.  
> But don?t try to correct one out of place tower by forcing the other  
> out of place. Just remember that for any stiffener to be effective it  
> should be an order of magnitude stiffer than is the to be stiffened  
> structure. This has little to do with increasing the latteral  
> stiffness of the suspension, which is best influenced by a strut brace.
>
> Bernie
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> On Sep 28, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Geraint Lloyd wrote:
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>> I know what yo are thinking
>>
>> OMFG not again......................
>>
>> have we not done this to death........?
>>
>> Does he not know about the whole "Bernie Bar vs Chuck's Strut Tower  
>> Bar"
>> showdown?
>>
>> Well I have a specific need generated by less than traditional
>> circumstances, so please forgive me for opening up this "Ole Can  
>> O'Worms"
>>
>> My 200 has had a bit of a smack at some point in its chequered  
>> history,
>> and the top of the RF strut tower had been moved in a bit. Some might
>> even say "quite a bit actually".
>> The beast is currently sitting on a frame machine with the top of the
>> tower about where it should be.
>> I was thinking that i should get a strut tower brace so that the  
>> top of
>> the tower has some encouragement to stay put.
>>
>> to be honest, I like both ideas, but do not want to use a Bernie type
>> solution to try and correct / maintain the load of frame distortion.
>> I think that that would be unfair on the strut top assemblies.
>> Here in Montreal, Brady, with his 200 20v, an I had (one evening in  
>> the
>> pub) concocted a solution to build a pair of hybrid "Chernie or Buck
>> (sounded a bit rude at the time)" bars with 3 threaded adjusters to  
>> move
>> the towers and then the struts independently after that. we concluded
>> that that might help if one side had moved more than the other.
>> Both of us have cracked webs on the passenger side reinforcement piece
>> where the hole is.
>> I think that Mr Huppert may have been going the same way at one point.
>> Any news on that Eric?
>>
>> the questions are therefore :
>> Looking at the Chuck Bar, which after all uses standard Audi Parts, is
>> the box tube chunky enough to to do what i want? or is it going to  
>> fold
>> like a giant banana.
>> Could someone send me a list of P/Ns for the brackets, and brake fluid
>> res for the chuck bar? the KB seems to be down at the moment and i  
>> can't
>> find the numbers in the archives
>>
>> Has anyone found a chunky commercially available tower brace?
>>
>> Anyone got any other cunning ideas?
>>
>> Geraint
>>
>>
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