Rear Shock Tower Brace

barrok69 · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: Rear Shock Tower Brace

So i had this Ractive strut tower bar for a 1992 z24 that my buddy gave me, since i have a 1990 and there was nothing wrong with the factory bar i decided to make a rear shock tower bar out of it.

Since i blew out my rear shock mounts(metal bushings totally seperated from the rubber mounts) i had to take them out anyway to replace, so i took some measurements to make up some brackets to adapt the ractive bar.

I cut off the rings, meant for the front struts, and welded up some 1/4" brackets to form a thick U around the crown part of the mount. Drilled a hole on each side and voila.

The nice thing about the bar is that its adjustable and can be removed easily if i ever needed to put anything big in the trunk.

Surprisingly my butt dyno felt a difference. who knows though it might not have been calibrated

Heres some pics of the Brace.

benz88 · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

since when did they start making aftermarket front stut bracves for 2nd gens? anyways looks good.Take it into the twisties and have a feel

burn · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject:

ractive has made them for a while. But despite them saying 92+ they raelly only fit the 94's cuz the master on the 92-93 is slighty different and it hots on them.

none-the-less, looks good.

barrok69 · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject:

right now the car is handling better than ever, im quite impressed thus far.

unknownz24 · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject:

Couldn't it also be that you have new shocks in the back, and that's why your butt dyno says gains?

barrok69 · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject:

I still have the same GR2 shocks in the back. just replaced the mounts that were 16 years old

the car handled good before i had the mount problem, but it handles much better now. so its probly a combination of new mounts + brace makes a nice improvement.

Julus94ZRS · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

had mine for 2 years now... !

cahilj · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject:

barrok- looks good man! Always nice to see custom fab work.

pezed · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:39 am Post subject:

wow that must help a ton.. considering that is on the shocks, and the shocks carry none of the side to side motion of the car. Whoo !!

ginobeats · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:40 am Post subject:

I've had that bar for over 8 years. Just place on top of strut towers, I used gear marking compound to mark the location for the holes and then I drilled them out and installed it. Simple