I'm looking for feedback and pictures of your 4 point GTSpec braces. I'd like to put one on my coupe but I'm slammed to the ground and worry about bottoming out. I'd like a picture taken with the car on the ground from the side of the car so I can see how low it hangs. If anyone that has one of these installed could do that for me it would be much appreciated! Also looking for comments on the brace and how you like it.
Thanks!

 

I know of 3 people who have had one, and all have removed it. Its just too low for a dd

 

Good to know, thanks man. Any other ways we can stiffen up the chassis?

 

I've only very lightly rubbed mine once and that was going over a big nasty speed bump. My car is fairly low on KW coilovers. Here's a pic of the car as it sits and an underside shot of the brace where you can see where it rubbed a bit (and scrubbed the GTSpec sticker out of place).

I'll try to take a low angle side shot for you so you can see how much clearance I have with the brace on the car. It really hasn't been a problem at all for me, but I have rubbed the rear lower tie bar a few times, but I'd rather rub that than dent my exhaust.

 

i've always been curious if the rubbing is more of a matter of being "gangster" low or just bad roads...i would think in my area i would be fine exept for the occassional "i can clear that" moment

 

Thanks for the pics Dave! I'm looking forward to that side shot

 

Im not sure about Bel Air but the roads around here are some ****.

I wanted to get this but damn i think ill scrap something everyday

 

The roads in my area (Toronto) are really rough. We get some pretty severe winters up here and the roads take a beating as a result, plus our gov't seems to prefer to spend our tax dollars on limo rides and high priced "escort services" rather than repairing the roads. LOL.

Anyway, as you can see from the pic my car is pretty low, but not gangster low (I'm actually going to raise it a bit), and I've only rubbed the 4-point brace once during probably 10k miles of driving on all kinds of crappy roads. But the stiffer KW shocks and springs are helping since the suspension doesn't compress as much over bumps, so if you're rocking stock shocks with soft lowering springs, it could be more of an issue.

 

How did you install this thing on the rear side? The holes are too small to fit the hardware into them. How did you get the bolts inside the framerail to the back two mounts?

I'm definitely missing something here. GTSPEC just sent me more of the same hardware that it came with...

UPDATE: I read another thread on another forum, and wound up "threading" the rear two bolts using the supplied hardware. I just pushed them into the hole and started to thread them into the unibody. I didn't overly tighten but it's tight. Would have liked to use the nuts but didn't have the room to drill the holes bigger since I was on jackstands.

Impressions: I wanted it to get rid of my sunroof popping. It minimized it, but it's still there. The car seems to respond faster to steering inputs. There's a bumpy corner I take everyday that it seemed to go through a little smoother (less body flex ... maybe). There is also a more - uhm, well solidness to the car but maybe I am imagining that.

My car isn't lowered, and if I do lower it will have to come off. It's the lowest point on my car now.

I would like to buy the rear strut tower brace, but don't want to hack up my OEM carpet. The goal is to buy things that reinforce the unibody, since the lower tie bars are all for the subframes, which are generally isolated by rubber bushings anyway.

I'm on the fence about it at this time, but it is a well made product. My car with nearly 95k had plenty of clearance for the OEM exhaust.