Different strut diameter AE86 struts?

[Golberg]

After having pulled apart my AE86 front struts today and having the shocks just pour out oil everywhere and one of them literally just fall apart I decided its time for some new ones.

I went around to a few places to get prices on shocks but what got me was that there were apparently two different outside diameter AE86 struts. Now as far as I knew there was only 1 diameter which everybody has. But my 2 options were for a 45mm strut or a 51mm strut. From what I saw it would appear that the 83-85 (zenki) were supposedly 45mm and the 86-87(kouki) were 51mm. What the confused me was, KYB excel-g's only seem to come in 1 model for 83-87 (according to their website) and have no mention of different strut diameters.

Does anybody know what is going on here?

Oh at it would appear that my struts are 51mm OD

[tony_kim]

im guessing all ae86 had same struts and the ke70 ones are the smaller diameter ones ??

[Golberg]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tony_kim @ Sep 26 2008, 06:12 PM) </div>KE70 ones are definitely smaller, its just weird because on 2 shop's systems it came up with those 2 different sizes specifically for AE86's and KE70/AE71's had their own different ones again.

[MountainRunner]

jdm and adm are the same i think only diff is the cailiper size ? the id shoulds be 2inchs

[Gilly]

all 86 have 2" struts

[pen15]

i have successfully put ke70 shocks in my ae86 housings with the help from a washer i just had to do the bolt on the top really bullshit tight why i don't this you ask i had a set of camber tops i bought of here came with nuts and they didn't fit the ae86 strut inserts and they had exploded