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Old 03-17-2016, 12:00 AM
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Tower reinforcement on the cheap!

Proud of my home made parts lol. Needed to replace my strut mounts and fix my strut towers. I've looked into underators and upper reinforcement plates. While looking at the underators I went shoot that's just a flat piece of metal with some holes in it. Got some family at a machine shop and BAM! 1/8 inch stainless plates to go under and ECS plates up top. She should be good and stiff now! I drew the template out on cardboard and sent that in and got these back. I'm pretty pleased with the results. Wish I had taken some pics of how bad my strut towers were before but oh well.

I had them plasma cut out of a larger sheet, but being under the car if you can get your hands on some metal for cheap these should be pretty easy to cut out yourself. Doesn't have to be pretty, no one will see them once they are installed. Just a lookout for people on a budget.

(No I will not be making anymore to sell, I'm sure the companies already making them would not be happy about that. On top of the cost for me to get the metal in large quantities wouldn't save you any money anyways)

You can see my window weld filled motor mount in the last pic as well. Still waiting on my how to to get approved and posted on that one.





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Old 03-17-2016, 05:38 AM
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Nice, double , sandwich reinforcement, BTW the ECS plats in machined finish look great.
 
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Thanks! You guys have great prices and quick shipping. I find myself going straight to you guys for the specialty parts I'm looking for.
 
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Thanks , it mean allot to us. We love our MINI customers.
 
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Any chance someone could kick a sticker for my car my way, I forgot to order one when I bought my strut reinforcements.
 
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PM me your order #, we will send you some more ECS stuff.
 
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