Gas Charged Engine Lid strut kit

$69.00

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Has the clip that holds your engine cover prop rod to the car body broken and now the rod won't store properly?

Get rid of that prop rod and replace it with this gas strut kit from Prime MR2! Sits low enough to be out of the way during routine maintenance operations and gives your car a more finished, professional look.

Kit comes with the gas strut, two custom manufactured brackets and all mounting hardware.

Details of the kit parts:

Gas strut - 50# lift, gas charged strut.
Mounting hardware: Aluminum welded brackets with ball stud bolted in.

Note: This will not work on cars with stock intakes!

What our customers say...

Toss that old prop rod you've been storing in the trunk. This thing is great.

Rated by Andrew Peebles

WAY easier, what the factory should have done. Looks good and makes life better

Rated by Billy Johnson

Excellent product, easy installation, and definatley worth the money!

Rated by Nick Manuele

Absolutely fantastic! A bit pricey but well worth the cost for the clean/professional powder coated custom gas strut mounts. Impressively quick shipping and looking forward to continue doing business with Hawkley Inc.

Rated by Wesley VanVleck

Very happy with this kit. Worth every dollar. Clean, minimalistic and of good quality. I've had this for over a year.

Rated by Fred Roaldsoy

Probably my most favorite item I've bought on Twos R Us. After swapping from an NA to turbo engine lid, it would stay stuck even after bumper adjustment and was complicated to open. After installing the gas charged strut, my engine lid no longer gets stuck shut! It was definitely worth the price just for that. Opening the lid is flawless now.

Rated by Tyler Gursky

Got this for Christmas this morning. Just installed it. Took about 15 minutes. There were no instructions included, but if you're still running around in a 20+ year old sports car, you should be able to figure it out. I never noticed the minor annoyance of walking around to the passenger side of the car to prop the engine cover open. Now that I think about it, I bet that is a nod to the RHD status of the car in its native land. Never again. Roll up to the car show (or into the garage), pull the release, grab the cover and open it. It is a little pricey for what it is, but it is good quality stuff that I suspect will last a long time. Five stars all the way!

Rated by Joey Mitchell

Works way better than the wooden stake I was using :)! Great quality! Cool Rules Cartoon 2000GT Widebody MR2

Rated by Travis Evans

A Better Way to Hold Your Engine Lid Open! This strut makes opening the engine lid a one-handed operation, and with as often as the prop rod clip would break (and usually at the track where it was least convenient), this eliminates one more trackside repair. Easy to install (aside from the original screws that broke off as I tried to remove them from the engine lid cover), this kit is a snap to install. As with everything twosrus sells, the brackets are well made and powder coated, and the strut is of good quality and the right pressure for lifting the lid, taking all the wasted time spent fabricating a DIY engine lid support out of the install.

Rated by Patrick Fields-Gardner

This rod is quite useful and the shipping was super quick! It helps clean uo the eninge bay and leaves a nice professional look. The old prop rod was broken so I needed something to help keep the eninge bay open.

Rated by Phillip Tang

Great product! Many compliments and my mechanic appreciates the help, that old prop use to get in the way. Great way to update your MR2.

Rated by Robert Duenas

This thing works like a charm. Its beautiful and makes opening my engine lid a breeze.

Rated by Victor Guerrero

Posting for my brother. Works amazing, easy install!! Great buy. P.S. that is exactly where i have that exact same catch can! Looks so good there

Rated by Andy Weinle

bracket on the engine lid made the ball joint for the strut to close to the lid. it hit a lilbit making the stut pop off. put a washer under each bolt and evrything seems to be good now. strut and brackets are good quality. just wish they came with 2 washers just incase there bracket is to close to the lid.

Rated by Miguel Aquino

easy instalation, BARLEY fits with the K&N FPIC (had to bend filter brackets). Looks good, but wont hold any more weight on the lid, would recomend opting for the heavy duty strut instead.

Rated by Mike Klassen

Great product. It does rub against the engine lid, and as previously stated, a couple of washers fix that problem. It is a little shorter than the stock prop, so the engine lid doesn't sit open as high (not a big deal). But overall, it is very much worth every penny!

Rated by Benjamin Freedman