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To get to the final front fender bolt, the headlights have to be removed.
The headlight is moved out of the way, accessing the final fender bolt.
Howard removes the last bolt that holds the fender to the unibody.
Now the fenders can be removed carefully as not to scratch them and put out of the way in a safe place.
Be careful, STI fenders are made to be lightweight, and they are flimsy. Being ham-fisted here can distort them or scratch the paint. Now, the door hinges can be reached.
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Aww shit what happened to the old comments?! There was good data in the comments!!!
yeah sorry about that but as we transitioned to this new site it became clear that transferring the user accounts from the old site was a large and difficult undertaking. Since we didn’t bring the user accounts over, the comments couldn’t come with them either.
I know this is a slightly older wright up, but I wanted to point out that these braces were installed with the car on jackstands, this could have been the culprit for aligning the door as the chassis flexes a bit to where the jack stands are. Same reason why its typically common to weld in a roll cage when the car is sitting on leveled ground.
This is not the case in this car, maybe old cars. It’s just never easy to line up doors so you always have to be careful or you end up chipping the paint, etc.
It looks like Ultra Racing has discontinued these braces. In your research, were there any other braces like these that stood out as maybe equal to or at least 2nd place compared to these? I was literally about to order some for my 04 and saw the “Discontinued” sign 🙁