I saw a strut tower brace, for sale made by steeda. Theres the adjustable for the V8 and then the fixed one which can be fitted on the V6. I asked a friend and he said it makes a big difference..but he doesn't have a mustang and not every car is the same. Anyone have one installed here? And is it worth the money or would I be throwing dollars down the drain?
Honestly for our chassis they do nothing. If you are driving the car on the street you will in no form way or shape need any sort of frame stiffening especially with the power output that you have. If you are looking to upgrade your handling go with shocks, springs, watts link, torque arm, swaybars, coilovers, lca's, etc. Don't believe the hype. Yeah it might look cool but somewhere in that coolness wtf is the point of spending 2-300$? no where on any of the sites do they show proven performance gains. Has anyone metered body roll, flex, lateral g's through turns with and without one. Nope. Same goes for a lot of parts. So if you are on a limited budget like i Am. Choose your parts wisely.
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I got one from Mustangs Unlimited for less then $50.00. They call it a Monte Carlo bar, does it work? Who knows,but for $50.00??? Doesn't look bad and takes all of 10 mins. to install.
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White 2005 V6 coupe w/automatic. FRPP M5230V6 dual exhaust. Vmp 93 mileage tune w/Vmp cai. Shaftmasters 4 in. driveshaft. 8.8 posi-rear w/3.55s. 17x8 in. black FRPP Bullitts w/Pirelli 235-55s. BEST 1/4 MILE TIME -- 14.65@93.58 (4/16/08)
ORIGINAL: my first mustang I got one from Mustangs Unlimited for less then $50.00. They call it a Monte Carlo bar, does it work? Who knows,but for $50.00??? Doesn't look bad and takes all of 10 mins. to install.
Why do they call it a Monte Carlo bar? he asked rhetorically. Because way back there in the Middle Ages (1965-67) Ford entered some GT350s (and a Falcon or two) in the European road race thinly disguised as "The Monte Carlo Rally". One of the things they had to do to make the cars handle the rough roads while maintaining structural integrity and suspension design function was to brace the front strut towers, tying them to each other and the firewall. A workmanlike solution to a basic problem.
The problem is not as pronounced in the current series of Mustang bodies. Previous generations benefitted from strut tower braces.
My experience with a BMR brace on my convertible, in before-after-before testing over a particularly abusive stretch of road near my house, tells me it removed about 60 percent of the dreaded cowl-shake*, reducing it from intolerable ("Is this thing going to come apart?") to barely tolerable ("No panic, but pretty miserable.").
I say there IS a noticeable difference in a convertible with and without the strut brace. No experience with the coupe.
*Cowl-shake is when you can perceive the front part of the car is rotating around a horizontal fore-aft axis, out of sychronization with the rest of the vehicle.
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