whatcha got to trade YO!
Nismo powerbrace = best mod evar
improves transient responst 10000x over bbq
Bob’s bitch fit was chucked out, try to keep it on topic
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Does anyone actually make sub frame connectors for these cars yet?
Every unit body car ever made has the same inherant weakness … the floor.
I’ve seen floor braces, but most are rice at best.
Taking a unit bodied car, beefing the strut towers and making the suspension as tooth chipping as possible is going to put a hell of a lot of stress on what I’ll call the torque box. I don’t know what Nissan/imports refer to it as, but it is the forward section of the frame rail/floor junction.
If you think of your chassis as a chain, you’re beefing up a whole bunch of links, and leaving one alone.
Essentially you’re putting every twist, torque, strain directly on the floor pan. Your strut bar brace may be 1 1/4" thick, your D2s set to Stun … your floor is still body steel thickness.
High horsepower unibody cars have a nasty tendency of actually cocking the body, especially with slicks. You can see the paint crack in the pillars.
Just installing SFCs would probably make more difference than any kind of brace you can imagine.
I agree with Adam and whoever else said it.
Tires … HD shocks, and 1-1.75" drop higher rate springs.
Factory spring rate on these cars is what … 130, 150 lbs?
Even the STs are under 200lb.
300-ish with nice HD shocks will have you carving corners without having every rut in the road mapped out on your ass.
If your car is going to see mostly street duty, don’t throw race-only parts at it like it’s some kind of badge of honor.
On a race track, every annoyance you put up with translates into going faster …
on the street there’s only so many times you can say “they’re race tech” as an excuse before it wears thin. You’re not going to be able to push the car hard enough to appreciate your $$$$$.