STi strut brace - useless?
20 January 2004, 12:22 PM
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Myself and Glen4 took mine off at the weekend, the fit the downpipe.
Its actually completely useless. Never realy looked at it before, but its not a 1 piece effort, staight onto the turret's.
Theres a mouting bracket on each turret, and the actaul carbon fibre brace is held onto the mounts by tightening a bolt.
There's a lot off play in the bolt hole too. Without it being a 1 peice design, it cant offer any torsional / lateral rigidity IMHO.
Looks nice though
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Its actually completely useless. Never realy looked at it before, but its not a 1 piece effort, staight onto the turret's.
Theres a mouting bracket on each turret, and the actaul carbon fibre brace is held onto the mounts by tightening a bolt.
There's a lot off play in the bolt hole too. Without it being a 1 peice design, it cant offer any torsional / lateral rigidity IMHO.
Looks nice though
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20 January 2004, 01:21 PM
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Maybe, but as I said, there's so much play in the holes where its bolted up, that any flex in the struts, wouldnt be held in by the brace. Have you had a look at it dismantled?
I might be missing something...?
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I might be missing something...?
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20 January 2004, 03:01 PM
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Nope they are mostly all like like that.
They are on the car for a purely cosmetic reason afaik.
hence why I changed my old one for a number of Cusco ones
They are on the car for a purely cosmetic reason afaik.
hence why I changed my old one for a number of Cusco ones
21 January 2004, 12:06 AM
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I agree with previous posts, purely cosmetic.
There is a lot of debate about whether they actually do anything anyway on a road car not being pushed to its limits.
I have a Cusco one, nice tight fit with no play, looks nice. I am sure the advantage is psychological but who cares, I have even fit a rear one
There is a lot of debate about whether they actually do anything anyway on a road car not being pushed to its limits.
I have a Cusco one, nice tight fit with no play, looks nice. I am sure the advantage is psychological but who cares, I have even fit a rear one
21 January 2004, 04:18 AM
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dark blue...
i can get you a later version on the jdm sti strut brace..they changed from carbon(flexing issues) to titanium...
i have sold the 2 i had..but am ordering some more?
these weigh in at around 1.5 kgs!
off jdm sti 02 cars..in v good condition.pics available
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i can get you a later version on the jdm sti strut brace..they changed from carbon(flexing issues) to titanium...
i have sold the 2 i had..but am ordering some more?
these weigh in at around 1.5 kgs!
off jdm sti 02 cars..in v good condition.pics available
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21 January 2004, 06:02 AM
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usually not that big an advtange unless you push the car to its limits and have hardeneed springs etc already. But it does make a difference to the hard core racer, of course. To us, not sure if its worth the $$$
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After a brief evaluation, I just scrapped it !
This is definately useless, as these bars are unable to achieve the basic thing : keeping the struts equidistant.
Turrets are transmitting efforts on the center carbon bar with a rear/up oriented angle... gently pushing by hand on this center piece, you will easily bent the whole assy.
Forget about equidistance
Further than what Dark Blue Mark described for the tightening between bar and turrets, the struts attaching bolts on each side suffer similar weakness...
If you're looking for real performance, just weld the whole body
[Edited by STi M'8 - 1/21/2004 9:15:04 AM]
This is definately useless, as these bars are unable to achieve the basic thing : keeping the struts equidistant.
Turrets are transmitting efforts on the center carbon bar with a rear/up oriented angle... gently pushing by hand on this center piece, you will easily bent the whole assy.
Forget about equidistance
Further than what Dark Blue Mark described for the tightening between bar and turrets, the struts attaching bolts on each side suffer similar weakness...
If you're looking for real performance, just weld the whole body
[Edited by STi M'8 - 1/21/2004 9:15:04 AM]
21 January 2004, 09:43 AM
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the titanium one is not adjustable....
its also just fits 2 bolts on the struts!
if someone could post me a pic on here??
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its also just fits 2 bolts on the struts!
if someone could post me a pic on here??
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