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Front Strut Bar Install

I got around to installing the front AutoExe strut bar this afternoon.

Tools needed:

14mm sockets
13mm sockets
10mm sockets
Something to cut plastic with, I used a dremel with a cutting disk

Starting out you you want to remove the engine cover and the factory strut bar. The factory strut bar will use a 13 mm socket to remove the four nuts (2 per side). Once the bar is removed you then need to remove the plates that the bar sat on, 3 14mm nuts per side. You will need to hold on to these 6 14mm nuts as you will reuse them

Picture 1-stock engine bay
Picture 2-engine cover removed
Picture 3-red circled bolts are the 13mm to remove the strut bar, blue circled bolts are the 14mm to remove the plates.
Picture 4-stock strut bar and plates removed
Picture 5-the stuff you should have ended up with after you took it off.