Part of the reason I made the comment above... if there is any adjustability required whether they are adjustable camber plates or adjusting the stiffness of the shocks you need access and these won't allow access when you need them but if you're only planning to use a suspension setup that does not require adjustable camber plates or adjusting stiffness of your shocks then these will work perfectly.
That strut brace you have is a nice strut brace
If you need to access the top of the struts then the garagistic strut bar looks like a very good option for relatively cheap.
There's also this ultra racing strut bar. Some guy had one for sale for $100 CAD locally but it unfortunately sold by the time I asked.
@ELCID86 what strut bar did you have besides the bmw performance?
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@d-rod: That is a nice looking bar. I don't have camber plates and they are not in the future plans, so both the ECS bar and your bar could work nicely. One concern I do have is it appears in the picture that your very round bar is touching/pushing down on the plastic cover on the engine. Is that so? The flat profile of the ECS bar seems to give clearance.
Another question I have for you folks running these bars, is it easy to remove just the bar and leave the mounts alone when doing maintenance? Alignments? Seems like it should be very simple, but could see it getting wedged, but also see these bars are adjustable. Looks like they would pop right off.
Here is a bit of back story on why I am looking at bars with mounting plates completely covering the top of the strut towers, its a bummer:
A year ago I went away for Christmas and paid a neighborhood teen to take care of a pet. She had a friend over and they raided the liquor cabinet. This led to the brilliant idea to find the key for the BMW and take it for a ride. The car was nose in and apparently they could not find reverse and lunged forward over a RR tie and into a ditch. It was still stuck there when I got home several days later. Damage appeared to be cosmetic, one parent paid me for some front bumper paint work. Later, I did an alignment. I discovered the only way to align the struts was to move them both toward the driver side > 1/2 inch, slotting the mounts etc. This tells me the front support bars to the unibody moved. I'm in the process of finding a shop to put my car on a frame machine to take some measurements and straighten it out. My goal with the strut bar is to cover the strut mount "customization" by the alignment shop.
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2005 330ci ZHP
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2005 330ci ZHP
Have one with all the hardware but without the///M covers.
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