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Old 08-17-08 | 12:48 PM
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Yesterday the garage got a long overdue cleaning, it's so much nicer now Anyway, I came across an old TRD bar I had on the Supra a few years back and decided it would be perfect on the GS300. So after some test fitting and re drilling I got it to fit (although I had to use some washers for spacers)! It does not fit too bad for not being made for the car but screw it, it was free.

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It looks close to rubbing in the pic but there is a 1/4" of room so it's all good -

Old 08-17-08 | 01:47 PM
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looks good!
Old 08-17-08 | 01:49 PM
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hmm i wonder if i have one in my garage from my old supra...
Old 08-17-08 | 01:55 PM
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very nice, but that is a lot of washers. looks to be sitting 1/2 to 1 inch off the actual mounts. wonder if that is bad?
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very nice, but that is a lot of washers. looks to be sitting 1/2 to 1 inch off the actual mounts. wonder if that is bad?
I'm wondering the same. It's 1/2" of washers and everything seems tight but I won't know for sure until I drive it tomorrow. If it doesn't work out I'll just take it off, no biggie.
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Man, I wish I would find such things when I clean out my garage...LOL
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Old 08-18-08 | 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by carbongs
very nice, but that is a lot of washers. looks to be sitting 1/2 to 1 inch off the actual mounts. wonder if that is bad?


Originally Posted by Euphoric
I'm wondering the same. It's 1/2" of washers and everything seems tight but I won't know for sure until I drive it tomorrow. If it doesn't work out I'll just take it off, no biggie.
its not that it wont "work out" or fall off necessarily, i just doubt its more stable then when your strut bolts were making full contact with the strut tower before you added that bar with all those washers.... instead of the contact patch being the entire bottom of each end of the bar, you've reduced it to the size of a 1/4in bolt x3 for each side....
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