stangstevers
06-07-2019, 07:27 AM
Trying to get back into writing for the mag again... and I'm trying product reviews (Dakota Dash is next)... But for now I tried this (https://lmr.com/item/LRS-RSTBRC/79-04-Ford-Mustang-Black-Rear-Shock-Tower-Brace)... I'll have the article at some point but:
1) Fitment is a joke, it "fits" but once you install it you will take it off and feel bad.
2) The way it fits provides NO improvement to chassis flex. If you follow the instructions, you need to bolt it to tin-can material (not on the strut mount but the inner fender). The metal is so thin you can bend it with your thumb. In other words, if there is flex, all this will do is dent the inner fender.
3) There's no real need for this product. To prevent chassis flex you'd need some sort of "X" brace around the back pillars / trunk floor where the towers are located or, to be honest, a complete front-to-back system to reduce flexing to be engineered not some kid with a mig welder and a pipe bender.
4) Take the $100 and put it towards a pan-hard bar to improve suspension towards the point of actually requiring to reduce chassis flex lol
I've actually started to design the fix to this product by creating some plates that will be able to wrap around the strut tower (shock will bolt through it) and you can weld or bolt it to the doubled up material which will in fact harden the points between the shocks (not that you have to add rigidity to this point), it will look close to this but material that will wrap front to back as well.
http://store.kennybrown.com/files/imagecache/product_full/29901%20Installed%20alt.jpg
1) Fitment is a joke, it "fits" but once you install it you will take it off and feel bad.
2) The way it fits provides NO improvement to chassis flex. If you follow the instructions, you need to bolt it to tin-can material (not on the strut mount but the inner fender). The metal is so thin you can bend it with your thumb. In other words, if there is flex, all this will do is dent the inner fender.
3) There's no real need for this product. To prevent chassis flex you'd need some sort of "X" brace around the back pillars / trunk floor where the towers are located or, to be honest, a complete front-to-back system to reduce flexing to be engineered not some kid with a mig welder and a pipe bender.
4) Take the $100 and put it towards a pan-hard bar to improve suspension towards the point of actually requiring to reduce chassis flex lol
I've actually started to design the fix to this product by creating some plates that will be able to wrap around the strut tower (shock will bolt through it) and you can weld or bolt it to the doubled up material which will in fact harden the points between the shocks (not that you have to add rigidity to this point), it will look close to this but material that will wrap front to back as well.
http://store.kennybrown.com/files/imagecache/product_full/29901%20Installed%20alt.jpg