Improve handling, stability, and ride quality on your GM FWD!

Fits: 1985-1991 Pontiac Grand AM, Buick Skylark, and Oldsmobile Calais. 1987-1991 Chevy Cavalier

Why use the Retro FWD Front Strut brace brackets?

Made for enthusiasts by enthusiasts right here in the USA! Want to take corners harder in your ride? Want to increase the fun factor in your drives? Adding a strut brace is a good way to get there! These are some strong brackets with no welding required! Come powder coated black to look good for a lifetime. 

What is included in the kit?

This kit comes with the passenger and drivers strut brace brackets plus stainless steel socket cap bolts for your bar. We leave your choice of bar up to you! With a 1" spacing there are a lot of options from 1" round or square tubing to smaller diameters by using a spacer. The car pictured is a 1989 Oldsmobile cutlass calais and is using a 1" diameter .065" chromoly tube between the two brackets. This tube can be picked up at your local metal supplier or even Summit racing!

How to install.

1. Follow all normal safety procedures when working on a vehicle
2. Remove the nuts from the mounting bolts on the front passenger and driver struts. 
3. If your car has a bracket for cruise control or other features that mounts to the strut, remove that as well
4. Install the strut bar brackets to the top of the strut. The bar mount will be closest to the firewall with the extended end pointing at each other (check out pictures at the top of the page)
5. Put on the removed factory brackets if there are any and loosely put the nuts back on the strut bolts
6. Now you are ready to add the bar you decided on. Measure the distance between the passenger and driver strut brackets (we shoot for the flat before the slope down to the plate). 
7. Take that measurement from step 6 and cut the length of bar you provided. 
8. Once cut, place the bar in the strut brackets and mark where the bolt holes go through.
9. Drill out the holes on the strut bar.
10. Paint the bar in the color of your choice, or leave it bare that could be cool too!
11. Use the stainless steel socket bolts supplied in the Retro FWD kit to bolt your bar to the strut brace brackets.
12. Tighten down the nuts on the struts
13. Go try out your new cornering beast!