Wow. i cant believe there is not a how to on this. oh well. here it goes

1. Remove brake fluid reservoir cap



2. Remove the fuse box cover



3. Lift up plastic cowl finisher to reveal a 10mm bolt that runs through 2 rubber bushings. You just have to unscrew it so it is out of the way. DO NOT TAKE IT OUT!!



4.Remove the 2 13mm nuts from the driver and passenger side strut towers. I forgot to take a picture before so here they are already installed



5. Now the fun part. You have to finangel the strut tower bar in from the passenger side to the drivers side. Just slide the notches to the drivers side studs sticking up. Easier said then done.

6. After the light tussel you, your car, and the strut brace have reattach the 4 13mm bolts. Replace fuse box cover and brake reservoir cap. You will now have this



7. Go out and enjoy your new found handling

 

thread approved. thanks for the write up.

 

thanks DC52NV

 

I heard that you should jack the front up before you put it in that way it relieves the pressure on the struts and is stronger once you get the strut brace in. Just stating what I heard, may not be true but sweet write up, I heard they can be trick on our cars.

 

Thata a nice how-to man good work man. And you don't neccesarily need to jack up the car unless you can't get the holes to line up then you can loosen the 3rd nut and jack it up and it will pop on. Also one suggestion would be to pull off the sticker on the middle of the strut bar and put one of the decals that they sent with on the middle cause it looks much nicer

 

Dude good advice. i just did it and it looks sooooo much better

 

Yea. Good write up! Looks good too. Do you notice a difference in handling/steering?

 

oh yeah at a highway onramp that is a tight circle i could take it at 50 before tires started screaming, can do it at 60 now.

 

Nice write up, hope to be using that soon enough. As for taking a turn quicker, congrats! 10mph is a big differance IMO. Now if only I could find a strut bar to gain me +10mph trap times in the 1/4th lol, trap at like 118 haha would be sick!

 

np. oh yeah, stop biting your nails.

 

I was toying with making a how-to, and even started taking photos of the process until this happened:


Then I had other things to worry about and so I forgot about it.

BTW, nice write up!

 

ouch. so that was a new strut huh?

 

No problem man it does make it look a lot cleaner

 

Perfect timing! My strut bar should be here next week!

Thanks!

 

Fortunately, no.

Heres the thread: https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/suspension-67/just-few-nuts-bolts%3B-how-hard-could-45449/

 

So they do actualy help then huh? Guess I know what I need next! Great write up BTW!

 

Excuse me for not knowing lol, but on your last picture showing what it looks like when it's done there's a part installed on the top of your engine. What is that????

 

Nice write up, but wut did u do all that work for? When I installed mine, all i did was loosen 2 nuts on the driverside, take off 2 of the nuts on the passengerside and slide it on. Had to jack the passengerside up a lil to get the holes to line up, but thats it. Just toqured them back down and was good to go.


later

 

i did all that work for the how to. You know how some people are.

HUH???? More specific please.

 

Im suprised people didnt bitch about there not being a pix of the nuts being loosened and taken off... somebody might get confused... lol.... j/k...

Nice work.

later

 

I think he removed the ECOTECH Supercharger Plate. I just checked on mine and that "tubing" I THINK youre talking about is under that.

 

+ rep

somebody took the time to do one. good work.

 

yes it is off to get painted

 

Do you know if the 2.2 has the same stuff in the same place? I think this would work but i figured i'd ask.

 

Yeah man it should be the same process. although the only thing you really need to do is back that bolt out