Im currently shaving my engine bay on my 5th gen and I came across these extra metal pieces on my strut towers (l and r). I pulled a couple brackets off of them that I wont be using so what is the point of them and can I take them off? I think it would be much cleaner without them. any help would be appreciate thanks
Rob



**the piece right under the paper btw

 

anyone?

 

yeah just drill out the spot welds and they'll come off, but make sure you drill it all out and it should just about fall off, if you try and pull it off you'll end up bending/ripping metal

 

If that piece doesn't form a bridge between the box section and the strut tower then by all means remove it.
From your picture it looks like the the piece stands alone.

 

does anyone know why its there i mean honda didnt just put it there for no reason. but then again it looks like it doesnt have a purpose so what the hell ill remove it lol

 

I would cut/grind off all the obtrusive tabs and stuff, but not the whole piece. It could definitely weaken the structure in that area...maybe not by a whole lot, but better safe than sorry.

 

well i have a strut bar and its going to be turbod so im contradicting taking it off or not anyone else thanks so far btw

 

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That brace has nothing to do with a strut tower bar, just FYI.