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    Rear Strut tower design?

    Hey guys. For a little while I was thinking about getting a 72 BMW 2002. Great little cars. anyways, I saw a rear strut tower that they used and it also has a spot to relocate the battery to the truck.
    I was wondering how hard it would be for someone to make for our cars.
    Check it out and let me know what you think.

    Heres the link. They are at teh bottom of the page.
    http://www.racetep.com/02frtult.html



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    thats a nice little design, but would have to be different for the 3g. It would be better and easier just to relocate it to the side of the trunk with a box.
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    It would be fairly simple to attach that to a rear upper strut bar but to do that I would have to be able to weld, which I can't. It's a good idea for a trunk that has little room in it but are trunks are large which is another reason it would be pretty useless.
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    IMO just get the battery relocation kit from Summit Racing. Its nice and simple!
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    i don't see how the last pics in that link would work, the rear bar isn't even attached to the top of the struts. all 3 or 4 points are connected to the chasis, wat's the point, that's like the c-pillar bar...doesn't seem to make sense to me. but taht is a nice design...if it were bolted to the stuts at the 2 higher point and to the chasis trunk at the otehr points then it would be awesome...serves many purposes in both holding a battery and stabalizing the rear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 88accordhb
    i don't see how the last pics in that link would work, the rear bar isn't even attached to the top of the struts. all 3 or 4 points are connected to the chasis, wat's the point, that's like the c-pillar bar...doesn't seem to make sense to me. but taht is a nice design...if it were bolted to the stuts at the 2 higher point and to the chasis trunk at the otehr points then it would be awesome...serves many purposes in both holding a battery and stabalizing the rear.
    It's attached to the strut towers. Strut bars don't attach to the struts, they attach to the tower and prevent chassis flex, not strut flex. Newbs. j/k with ya, CT
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveDX89
    It's attached to the strut towers. Strut bars don't attach to the struts, they attach to the tower and prevent chassis flex, not strut flex. Newbs. j/k with ya, CT
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    Quote Originally Posted by 88accordhb
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