opel suspension question

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:49 am

does the astra mk 2 have the same strut tower design as the lanos?

better yet... will the astra mk 2 strut brace fit the lanos????

****FRONT AND REAR

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:09 pm

bump!

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:27 pm

Audacityracing wrote:does the astra mk 2 have the same strut tower design as the lanos?

better yet... will the astra mk 2 strut brace fit the lanos????

****FRONT AND REAR

It should... because mk2 and lanos share the same suspension/drivetrain. So I would imagine that the strut tower bar would fit easily. Because, isn't the engine bay exactly identical as well?
Why, did you find some good deals ?

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:29 pm

omp bars for pretty cheap

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:59 pm

can't really tell... both cars are supposed to be sharing the same suspension and chassis but if the OPEL is just 1mm wider on the front then the brace will be to big for your lanos and it goes the other way round too.

unless you are sure you can mod the brace if it slightly off... make very procice measurments before spending your money.

my 2 cents.

MMamdouh

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:18 am

mmamdouh wrote:can't really tell... both cars are supposed to be sharing the same suspension and chassis but if the OPEL is just 1mm wider on the front then the brace will be to big for your lanos and it goes the other way round too.

unless you are sure you can mod the brace if it slightly off... make very procice measurments before spending your money.

my 2 cents.

MMamdouh

I'm pretty sure that OMP bars are adjustable, right?

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:21 am

yup...

the thing i was concerned with though is that the coolant reserve and throttle body/manifold force the lanos bar to go up... and the angle doesn't look quite the same...

i guess i shoulda asked if the lanos and opel had the same strut bars

jonlint · Post by **jonlint** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:28 pm

The thing that should be verifed is the distance between the strut towers. We have a Mk3 Astra GSi which takes the same struts and strut mounts from the Mk2 Astra, BUT the strut towers are further apart. If someone can measure center to center of the Lanos, I can get my brother to check our Mk2 Astra GTE.

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:08 pm

we determined that the throttlebody/intake manifold do not fit the astra strut bars

Post by **Efratech** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:24 pm

there're different desings for the astra mk2 strut bars

Post by **PrecisionBoost** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:12 pm

You should be able to fabricate one pretty easy with all the tools you have at your disposal... it's just medium wall steel tubing or aluminum bar stock.

I have an Opel OMP strut bar that should fit my Optra.... but it doesn't... I have to relocate the power steering pump resevoir and turn it into a fully adjustable model (since it was not adjustable )

I'm really tempted to simply remove the end cups that go on the strut tower and bend my own bar.

The cups are the hard part.... they are a stamped piece.... if Tom and I could find a reasonably priced method of producing them I'm sure one of us would have started producing them allready.

I can use my lathe to cut a perfect cup out of tubing..... but that would be very costly and time consuming..... stamped parts are certainly the most economical at this point.

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