Our Cars Do NOT have STRUTS!!

[FirebirdGT]

Third Gens had struts up front, fourth gens have shocks.

Our shocks mount kinda like struts. Look at a picture of a McPherson strut. Note especially how the bottom of the strut bolts directly to the steering knuckle. The bottom end of a McPherson Strut bolts solidly to the steering upright and serves as an upper a-arm. The bottom end of a shock pivots on the lower a-arm. There is a separate upper a-arm.

We have a SLA suspension, which is NOT a strut.


http://tech.firebirdv6.com/suspension.html

http://www.monroe.com/tech_support/tec_struts.asp

http://www.procarcare.com/includes/c...23/23Fig1.html

http://www.carbibles.com/suspension_bible.html

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?...t%20suspension

http://www.icarumba.com/cobrands/con...suspsteer1.asp


Auto parts guys use the term strut incorrectly - all the time. The upper end of our coilover shocks kinda looks like a strut, so they call it that. But it's the lower end that counts and ours looks like (and is) a shock.

Abraham Lincoln "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?"

Man "Five".

Lincoln " No, four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one."


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