Torque value for ''Cusco'' front and middle braces?

When your package arrives the instructions may very well have torque instruction. You can also check on the net, there's guidelines, average torque values for various bolt diameters. Be careful, it's typically diameter at the thread, not socket driver size.

 

The instructions that you get will be in Japanese. Here are the installation instructions in English. They will NOT have the torque specs.

Toyota Prius Chassis Stiffener, Under Brace, Handling; JuicedHybrid.com

http://www.juicedhybrid.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/951%20492%20f_eng.pdf

Bolts are M12x1.25 OEM w/19mm hex heads: Torque to 65 ft. lbs.

Toyota Prius Chassis Stiffener, Under Brace, Handling: JuicedHybrid.com

http://www.juicedhybrid.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/951%20492%20c_eng.pdf

Bolts are:

M10x1.25 OEM w/14mm hex heads; Torque to 38 ft. lbs.

Bolts holding parking brake cable clips are M8x1.25 w/12mm hex heads; Torque to 25 ft. lbs.

 

The bolts on all Toyota's except some of the NUMMI made US ones, comply with the J.I.S. or Japan Industrial Standard.

Here is a link to a chart comparing them with the DIN or Deutsche Industrie Norm European standard;

Metric Bolts - Head and Wrench Sizes

 

Yeah, what he said.