BT Tech Strut Tower Brace install pictures and Text

[Bobbyb]

Good question !

[Gadgetdad]

Originally Posted by mrichman

Would adding Tom's front lower brace in conjunction with the BT upper front brace add rigidity over just the front upper brace? Any drawbacks to doing so (other than to my bank account)? Do the BT folks plan on a lower brace for the front or rear?

Mike

I don't know, but there would seem to be a point of diminishing returns! I have the BT stiffening plate installed on my Touring '07, and since adding the strut brace, the front end feels stiff enough. I do sense the back end a bit soft! The floor brace and/or Tom's rear brace may be the next way to spend $!!

Lee

[mrichman]

I thought I read that one (or both) of these pieces interfered with the stock exhaust system. Any particulars on if the floor or rear brace will fit the stock exhaust? Also, isn't the floor brace simialar to the BT stiffening plate in function?

M ike
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I don't know, but there would seem to be a point of diminishing returns! I have the BT stiffening plate installed on my Touring '07, and since adding the strut brace, the front end feels stiff enough. I do sense the back end a bit soft! The floor brace and/or Tom's rear brace may be the next way to spend $!!

Lee

[BT Tech]

My understanding is that the toms lower front brace interferes with either the exhaust system or catalytic converter. There are some people here tht have installed it so they will be able to comment on it first hand.

I have driven lots and lots of high performance cars and with the addition of our BT Tech stiffening plate and our BT Tech Strut Tower Brace, I think that 99 percent of the people that drive the car that have our parts installed would not feel the need to go any further.

Originally Posted by mrichman

I thought I read that one (or both) of these pieces interfered with the stock exhaust system. Any particulars on if the floor or rear brace will fit the stock exhaust? Also, isn't the floor brace simialar to the BT stiffening plate in function?

M ike
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I don't know, but there would seem to be a point of diminishing returns! I have the BT stiffening plate installed on my Touring '07, and since adding the strut brace, the front end feels stiff enough. I do sense the back end a bit soft! The floor brace and/or Tom's rear brace may be the next way to spend $!!

Lee

[Boo]

Originally Posted by BT Tech

....I have driven lots and lots of high performance cars and with the addition of our BT Tech stiffening plate and our BT Tech Strut Tower Brace, I think that 99 percent of the people that drive the car that have our parts installed would not feel the need to go any further.

Now you've made it harder for me to wait until the NY weather warms up some more so that I can put on the Strut Tower Brace (it's been in my closet for over a month now). But that should be real soon ... probably within a week.

[patsparks]

Great pictures and instructions.
I feel tempted to get a brace but I know the colour of the creek I'll be up without a paddle when my wife finds out and it isn't blue!

[Gadgetdad]

Originally Posted by patsparks

Great pictures and instructions.
I feel tempted to get a brace but I know the colour of the creek I'll be up without a paddle when my wife finds out and it isn't blue!

Brace is also a safety device for the car I would wager. Forces in a head-on or lateral blow would be ameliorated and transferred to other parts of the car body rather than the precious passengers...... Perhaps that would give you a paddle on the creek

Lee

[patsparks]

Originally Posted by Gadgetdad

Brace is also a safety device for the car I would wager. Forces in a head-on or lateral blow would be ameliorated and transferred to other parts of the car body rather than the precious passengers...... Perhaps that would give you a paddle on the creek

Lee

Every respect to BT Tech but I think Toyota have the crumple zone thing pretty right. I'm not planning to have a crash either.

[Gadgetdad]

Originally Posted by Boo

Now you've made it harder for me to wait until the NY weather warms up some more so that I can put on the Strut Tower Brace (it's been in my closet for over a month now). But that should be real soon ... probably within a week.

Boo, they are installing the latest shipment now. How is yours coming along?

[Boo]

Originally Posted by Gadgetdad

Boo, they are installing the latest shipment now. How is yours coming along?

I know. I'm being lapped left and right. In NYC, it's still too cold for my tastes to want to spend an hour outside installing the brace. But it's doable and I'm getting antsy. So my guess right now is that barring rain, the brace is going in on Thursday -- a mere 6 weeks after I received it.