Extended Strut Top-hats for Honda
10-26-2007, 12:32 PM
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Re: Extended Strut Top-hats for Honda
Originally Posted by michigan_soler
you should be able to go a good inch-inch.5 i would think... after removing the shock/strut assembaly, look at how far the top hat is from the top of the spring... do that or alil more then... but make sure you don't do more then will fit under your hood.
But actually the front isnt what I'm concerned with as much as the rear. I think I've seen some marks in my wheel-well from the entire tire rubbing (and I only have oem sized 13s), so I didnt want to make the top-hat too tall. But in the rear is where I need them most since it seems to hit the bump-stops most-often. Probably because the AGX rears blew, and i have some tokico blues back there, which pretty much suck.
Today I'll do some measuring at least to see what can fit through the hole in the "frame", and where my suspension should bottom out before the struts.
All the cutting, smoothing, grinding is done for the top-hats. Now I just need to buy some tubes to extend them since all I have around is exhaust, which I'm kinda Iffy on using since after cutting into these top-hats, since I now realize how much tougher-made they are then some exhaust pipe.
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10-26-2007, 01:43 PM
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Re: Extended Strut Top-hats for Honda
im saying, take off the strut assembaly.
is there a gap between the spring and the tophat? (when not compressed in any way)
you want to do about that much of a pipe extension... if its to much of an extension to close your hood. then do it alil less...
is there a gap between the spring and the tophat? (when not compressed in any way)
you want to do about that much of a pipe extension... if its to much of an extension to close your hood. then do it alil less...
10-26-2007, 01:51 PM
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Re: Extended Strut Top-hats for Honda
Originally Posted by michigan_soler
im saying, take off the strut assembaly.
is there a gap between the spring and the tophat? (when not compressed in any way)
you want to do about that much of a pipe extension... if its to much of an extension to close your hood. then do it alil less...
is there a gap between the spring and the tophat? (when not compressed in any way)
you want to do about that much of a pipe extension... if its to much of an extension to close your hood. then do it alil less...
10-26-2007, 03:03 PM
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Re: Extended Strut Top-hats for Honda
Originally Posted by michigan_soler
or did you already rip apart the whole assembly?! to get the top hats out.
10-26-2007, 03:54 PM
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Re: Extended Strut Top-hats for Honda
Originally Posted by Loserkidwac
we can test this on your hatch and then if my welds hold we'll do it to mine 
I seriously don't think this part of the strut really gets that much abuse with my not-too-stiff struts.
