The only important question for me is does it rub on the hoodliner?

 

The brace has an adjustable height setting, eventhough it is hard to really adjust anything in between lowest and highest. If it is set to highest then it will slightly rub. HTH. Are you french? And why is it you again..I've never met you.

 

http://www.nicoclub.com/articles/GTS...5-gtspec.shtml

this is a pretty good article on the 4 point brace

 

^Good find on that post. I installed my brace one at a time and the one i feel gave me the best result was the 4 point brace. But get ready to rub though. My car is only lowered 1.5" all around and i scrape over speed bumps sometimes. Another strange thing I noticed after installing the 4point brace is that occasionally when taking turns hard the inner rear tire could get lifted. This may be due to my coilover dampening settings, but this never happened prior to the brace perhaps due to the chasis flexing and keeping the car planted.

 

Your rear inner tire is lifting as a result of the increased chassis stiffness. This is what happens when you elimate the flex originally designed into the chassis...and its a good thing in my book!

 

I'm aware that the reason why this is happening is because of the chasis no longer conforming to the flex but it's causing my car to slightly bounce up and veer to the outside during hard cornering. There can be two reason for this, I know that my rear differential bushings are very worn which I am replacing them next week or I need to fine tune my auto dampening computer.

 

No harm intended by my post, it just seemed as though you were unsure of the cause and I wanted to make sure you knew it wasn't evidence of a problem. The bushing could help with this. Have you noticed any occurences of ABS kicking in or the stability control becomming active? This could certaintly cause the car to pull. I just wanted to better understand what's happening and thus the best solution. Thanks,

 

No harm taken The ABS has yet to kick in for this situation. As for for the VDC , if turned on, will activate itself. I'm pretty confident that if my rear was planted at all times then this would not occur. The inner tire lifting and coming back down seems to be the catalyst to the slight wobbling in the rear.

The issue sound worst then it is, but these are not under normal driving situation and when it does happen the car is not out of control. If I were to quantify the amount of veer it would be ~6" - 12" to the side on the rear depending on the speed. Another thing to keep in mind is that the speeds at which I am entering turns at are greater then before.

 

double post...

 

Based on your discription:

"If I were to quantify the amount of veer it would be ~6" - 12" to the side on the rear depending on the speed."

I have to ask, is the rear sliding? If this is affecting the rear only then it sounds like a result of the unsettling that occurs with wheel lift and set-down as well as the increase rear stiffening (similar to the affects of a stiff rear sway-bar).

 

I wouldn't say sliding exactly but more like a small bunny hop. Yeah, it's only on the rear. I'm sure most people won't care or notice this, but it's like you stated this is the result of a stiffer chasis.

 

Guys GTspec front bar just came of back order. Got front and Rear strut-bars In Stock. These go quick so get you order in if you want one.






Rear bar


Thanks
Charles

 

I continue to be impressed with this...I have an on ramp I use to get on the freeway and I can do the S turns on it at 70 with ease...you point the car where it needs to go and it goes!

 

have you tried lowering the stiffness of your rear sway bar one step, to see if this corrects the issue?

 

I've had this bar for almost a year now, and I must say its one of the best stb out there. Its a ver solid bar. using it with my mrev2 and 5/16 spacer and 350z cover, no fitment issues, only rubbing slightly from the inner hood liner. The hood liner leaves little rubbed marks on the bar. If liner is removed no rubbing will occur.

This along with sway bars puts a smile to ones face, when cornering.


heard rear stb is waste of money, but I would like to hear more feedback on it.

edit: rub marks on bar; just two spot locations will have the rub marks, its the edges of the bar, where it starts to curve down.