Whiskey11
SCCA Autoscrosser #23 STU
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On my WL watts link, they supply the eq of a pan hard bar upper BRACE. The oem ford pan hard bar brace is fubar imo... just 3 sided. Originally I tossed the oem ford PHB and brace and replaced it with the BMR on car adjustable PHB and heavy duty upper PHB brace. That BMR brace is made from rectangular tubing..and makes the oem Ford brace look like junk.
The eq of that brace that comes from WL is chromoly tubing. I can see the brace in the pix that kelly posted. At $500.00 they will be flying off the shelves.
That brace is only ever in tension/compression. Any rigidity you are trying to add in torsion is going to be extremely minimal because of the way it mounts on the driver side. Those two bolts simply aren't strong enough to keep the chassis from twisting. In that regard the OEM brace is more than capable of dealing with the forces it will actually see. It isn't pimpy looking but it does the job. As much as Kelly doesn't like me to say it, an aftermarket brace there is a waste of money.
Now if Kelly has chassis deflection numbers pre and post brace installation proving otherwise, I might believe the claim that an aftermarket brace is "better".