Honda front strut brace (74300-SR3-010) experience?

[Chsi]

I found one for sale. Its supposedly the original universal Honda front strut bar, that is supposed to fit on the MB as well. I have an MB3, and it doesnt have the holes pre-drilled for mounting it, so i'd have to drill them myself. Anyone have any experience with it, and could give me tips on whether its worth it or not? Thanks in advance!

 

[btjtaylor]

The easiest way is to get a bar that mounts into the top mount studs of the suspension, like this

 

 

However, I have been given an MB6 strut bar for free so I wanted to attempt this install. According to the internet I should do as follows:

 

Offer up the bar

Mark and drill 8.5mm holes into the strut towers

Use M8 bolts (grade 10.9) with penny washers through from the underside and tighten it down

 

I have all the parts ready to go and will report back soon ...

[Chsi]

1 hour ago, btjtaylor said:

The easiest way is to get a bar that mounts into the top mount studs of the suspension, like this

 

 

However, I have been given an MB6 strut bar for free so I wanted to attempt this install. According to the internet I should do as follows:

 

Offer up the bar

Mark and drill 8.5mm holes into the strut towers

Use M8 bolts (grade 10.9) with penny washers through from the underside and tighten it down

 

I have all the parts ready to go and will report back soon ...

Sick! Thats about what I read as well. I hit up a friend of mine who, apparently, has done this to several ej/ek models, and had a bar from an mb6 lying around that he says seems to fit on his ej as well. He already has some pretty strong anti-rust foundation, thats probably the most important thing about this. Only thing I was worried about is structural integrity of the strut towers, but with some decently sized penny washers underneath it should be fine. If I decide against it, its still irreversible, i'll get a bolt-on one too. Looking forward to what you have to report!

[KiNK43]

Yes cars that came with it have studs. However I'm sure there are dimples said studs where would be on  the cars without. Questionable how much reinforcement it offers. But better than nothing I'm sure.

[btjtaylor]

1 hour ago, KiNK43 said:

Yes cars that came with it have studs. However I'm sure there are dimples said studs where would be on  the cars without. Questionable how much reinforcement it offers. But better than nothing I'm sure.

 

Yes, there are some marks - I guess it was to align the drill or whatever they were using in the factory if the car was to be an MB6. I'd love to know what they did - I imagine just drill and tap a hole, thread in a stud ... or maybe there was more to it than that? Maybe some extra reinforcement underneath?

 

I found a video of someone working on an EG just now doing basically the same thing as I wrote earlier but using a piece of metal behind as reinforcement - it seemed to work OK for them

 

 

 

[Chsi]

1 hour ago, btjtaylor said:

 

Yes, there are some marks - I guess it was to align the drill or whatever they were using in the factory if the car was to be an MB6. I'd love to know what they did - I imagine just drill and tap a hole, thread in a stud ... or maybe there was more to it than that? Maybe some extra reinforcement underneath?

 

I found a video of someone working on an EG just now doing basically the same thing as I wrote earlier but using a piece of metal behind as reinforcement - it seemed to work OK for them

 

 

 

Interesting. Yeah, the video did it about as i imagined, nice to see proof it makes sense. I am reaaally bad at manufacturing things, so i hope some decently sized washers will do the job just fine. 

Also, are you sure about the markings? I have only seen two little spots on the MB strut tower, but they are way too close together to be the ones to mount the bar on. Heres a picture of my MB3 towers: 

And one from an ej, where they look alot further apart:

 

 

 

[KiNK43]

Fair point doesn't quite look right does it. 

Be simple enough to mark and drill yourself anyway.