hahaha thanks jmac, didnt realise some people couldnt see the pics prop lol

Mspaint away jmac, it always adds value, not like mine

If anyone else is having trouble with browsing to the full sized images ( I did - seems some browsers/sites don't handle spaces in links well, or more precisely when a space is replaced by "%20" or whatever the code is for a space) - well here they are. I realise this throws off the formatting/size of the posts in this thread, so if anyone objects, I'll delete this post



















Obviously this will do a lot to increase support of the steering box, and for most non performance applications, they do fine without a brace at all - but purely for discussion purposes I reckon you might even be able to beef it up just a touch more, simply by adding an extra beam or two from the inner guard bolts at the top, to the 2 innermost steering box bolts. I won't bore people with an mspaint pic unless someone asks :) , but basically that would triangulate the support and make it close to bulletproof (of course you could also argue that if it needs to be beefed up beyond the mad dat one, it'll likely punch a hole in the inner guard and tear the chassis rail (which is of course never likely to ever happen, or if it did, it'd be of no concern, as the forces required to do that probably mean that the car has had such a bad roll/crash that it'd dpractically damaged beyond repair, so the steering box condition is irrelevant)

Just buy Scott's ute- its for sale and will work out cheaper than buying all thier parts

i want evrything so pretty much their ute fullstop

Did you realise that the top Maddat brake setup is the same as the one I have for sale? It's RX7 brakes on 200B struts.
Mine just needs a coilover kit welded on and it's the shizzle!

want these next...
http://www.maddat.com.au/products/FSA200B.htm
http://www.maddat.com.au/products/FBK003.htm
http://www.maddat.com.au/products/RFE1200.htm

Coilovers, brake upgrade, and rebuilt front end to suit...
wanna get it riding right before any performance mods hahaha

yeh the backing plate isnt massive but it doesnt take that much load so it should be fine... the steering box now has 6 bolts securing it rather than 3 haha... :)
Looks cool, can see it clearly from front of car with bonnet open and only cost like 70 bucks lol

That looks sexy!
Surely it should have a decent sized backing plate inside the strut tower?
I've been thinking about buying one of these :)

hey shoota, stripped that A15 last night too... cant see much wrong with it at all... Bores are still in good condition.
Havnt removed pistons or crank yet, was sposed to do that tonight but the steering box brace turned up hahaha.
But from looking at the rods and crank from underneath theres no signs of anything bad... no discolouration or anything so hopefully all is well... gonna strip it completely, and send the block away to get cleaned, tested, and prob bored 20thou... rebuild and do a EFI conversion.
http://www.injectionperfection.com.au/content/view/21/71/