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R50/53 Installed my new strut tower brace today.

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Old Feb 21, 2005 | 05:23 PM
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Installed my new strut tower brace today.

Here are a few pics of my latest mod. I picked this up from Moss the other day. I havent driven it enough to tell the diffrence yet.










Here is a few pics of my current mod, can you tell what it is?










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Old Feb 21, 2005 | 05:41 PM
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I was going to say ejection seat until I saw the last picture. Sweeeet
 
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Old Feb 21, 2005 | 06:49 PM
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So you've remotely located the NOS bottle in your living room, very cool

I like the look of that bar.
 
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Old Feb 21, 2005 | 06:55 PM
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The strut bar looks nice. I am not too keen on Nitros - reminds me of the dentist!
 
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Old Mar 28, 2005 | 08:27 AM
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New strut tower brace

I just install my struct tower barce today also, but I find the bonnet is not close so [font='Times New Roman']popularly, I find that the brace is somewhere push up the bonnet, the gap between the bonnet and the engine bay is become a bit bigger (around 3mm more compare to previous) Did you find same thing after your installation [/font]
 
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Old Mar 28, 2005 | 08:42 AM
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That same thing happened to me...I dropped the bar down as low as possible, but the hood still rests on it. Its not TOO bad, but still more than if it wasnt there.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2005 | 08:49 AM
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So whats the NOS shot size and how often you think you can do that? I'm curious how the MINI engine handles that.
 
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