L0nestar--I have a rb25 (I made my own mounts) and i can put the motor in with the bar still installed!!! the bar runs as close to the firewall with out getting into the brake lines as possible. you should have no problem with the R33 cross-member

unwed_transient--I use grade 8 nuts and bolts combo very easily accessed after you take up the plastic shield. If I was going to remove the master cylinder/brake booster from the car I would take off the bar first. You can get to all of the fluids with the bar attached.

i will send funds today.

I'm running into a problem where the bar is hitting the top of my ABS actuator thing, specifically the frontward bleeder screw. I'm thinking i'm going to have to modify the actuator bracket to drop it about 1.5 or so. Jason if you have any tips i'm all ears.
If i work out something with my bracket i'll give you guys directions on what i did.

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a lot of things feel the same as before, the tranny kinda whines but not as loud as my other one...maybe that's normal?

We never tested it on a ABS car. Can you send me a close up picture of the problem. We will get it solved--even if I have to weld up a new bar!!!!!!

From the front.

It's just hitting the top of the bleeder valve here.

here you can see how close it is to the top of the actuator

and here's a slightly wider shot of the same area

more from the top side

Modified by krazydriver at 7:33 AM 9/6/2007

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goddamn i hate abs..

what does the production run look like for this?

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yeah it's a black wrinkle powder coat. damn i hate abs..

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I was looking at it some more last night.. the way the actuator bracket is i think i should be able to mod it like this.

apologies for the crappy MS paint picture.

So jason give me a couple days and i'll get back to you.

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At least on our S13's. That actuator is so freaking huge! I love the fact that my 240 is completely base no pw or dl or sunroof or spoiler or rear wiper or ABS!

omg so lucky... I wana cut my sunroof and weld in 22 gauge sheel metal haha (22 gauge is what the car's metalwork is i think anyways).

I have no ABS, no AC, no cruise control (cause i removed it) and no hicas (cause i removed it), i want to remove heater system, sunroof, antenna, and i dont know what else is there haha... i have pw windows :-/

krazydriver: GL with trying to drop the ABS actuator. Don't mess it up though. If you can do it take lots of pics to show everyone how it went

Unbolt the wiper motor and remove the nuts holding the abs actuator to the bracket. Obviously unbolt the bracket/relay bracket/wire connections. Holding the wiper motor out of the way you can fairly easily pull the abs actuator up and get this.

Next part was a little harder take some time and work the abs bracket around. You have to unbolt the lower bracket holding the fuel lines and the bracket holding the fuel filter. That way you can get the lower end of the bracket up and over the fuel lines. Once that was done i was trying to get it to slide down between the strut/bucket area and the engine but it just wouldn't fit. So i took the dremel and a cut-off wheel and took off the top tabs on the right side of the bracket as seen here.

^^ i have nasty hairy arms!!

Then i just pushed the abs actuator back down and saw where everything laid out and now it fits like this.

for some reason my weekends are usually busier then the week. So if i manage to get measurements it will probably be monday night before i'll have time to reweld the abs bracket so it holds the actuator properly.

Nice work and Good write up!!

Interesting way of moving the ABS unit krazydriver! Props!

but yeah that was a good idea, I probably woudl have ditched the bar myself

bracket has been cut and rewelded and everything bolted in.
Tomorrow i gotta slot the brackets a little to allow some adjustment so they bolt in and out easier.

I gotta sleep now but i should have the rest of the pics on how i modded the bracket up by tomorrow night.

alright here's the end of the relocations.

i know my welds look like absolute crap, but they're strong. Plus the abs actuator isn't really going to be exerting that much force to move around.
So to sum it up my chopped bracket moves the ABS actuator down about 2 inches and about 1.5 inches towards the drive side. Strut bar mounts fine and while it's close to the abs... there's no chance of it hitting.

Modified by krazydriver at 9:41 PM 8/27/2007

Modified by krazydriver at 9:42 PM 8/27/2007

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I have 4 left ready to ship.

there are three left 9/1/2007

THANX!

oooh,PLEASE tell me that you have one for me!....

As of today we have 2 left 9/7/07

Our next run will not be ready till 1 Nov. Right now we are working on a run of heat shields for S13's

These are really nice congrats on making something nice and unique and can take some beating and stress.

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We are putting together another run--It will take a few weeks because of the other projects. If you didn't get a chance to pick one up this time we will be ready with some more shortky (I will take orders right before we take them to powdercoating if you want a specific color)