Strut Brace

brendan · Post by **brendan** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:55 pm

Just wondering wether anybody has got a strut brace on their piazza of know of anybody who has one, and if possible if they have some pic's. I am looking into trying to make one for my car, any help woulb be great
thanks

Rodeobob · Post by **Rodeobob** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:36 am

Theres no struts on a Piazza to brace.

They are the shock towers and short of doing the Paris-Dakkar you wont be doing anything buy bracing them.
Make up some shiny covers to put over em.

Bob.

GeminiCoupe · Post by **GeminiCoupe** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:46 pm

I know this constitutes as post whoring but i couldnt help it...

Rodeobob wrote:They are the shock towers and short of doing the Paris-Dakkar you wont be doing anything buy bracing them.

LOLLLLLLLL

Nick-

Impulsive Yank · Post by **Impulsive Yank** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:21 am

i'd think if you triangulate the brace & attach to the firewall it would be of benefit. no doubt the front flexes with suspension movement, anything would be better than stock.

Rodeobob · Post by **Rodeobob** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:43 pm

Impulsive Yank wrote:i'd think if you triangulate the brace & attach to the firewall it would be of benefit. no doubt the front flexes with suspension movement, anything would be better than stock.

Id say that youd want to have some serious shockers in the front end to warrant it.

Theres a possibility that extra bracing might help to strengthen the front end in general, but if it was just off the shock towers all it would do would be to stress them out more.

Bob.

Bugle · Post by **Bugle** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:02 pm

Also there's nowhere to actually attach one to the towers. No good bolting it to the top of the shocks since they're rubber mounted and move around. You'd have to weld some mounts to the towers.

Post by **wedgenut** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:41 pm

This really is a waste of time in all honesty. The entire suspension system is contained on the crossmember apart from the top shock mounts, front links and sway bar. The only movement they have is up and down as the wishbones do their thing. The shocks neither gain nor offer any lateral support to the suspension setup. They only absorb vertical loads so it follows that bracing the top of them is not a useful modification.

Bugle is right, unless the top of the shocks are rigidly mounted everything moves about on the bushes, if you have a handling problem replace the shocks with some billies and custom springs. Its a better way to spend your money.

Rodeobob · Post by **Rodeobob** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:19 am

wedgenut wrote:if you have a handling problem replace the shocks with some billies and custom springs. Its a better way to spend your money.

lol. a Piazza with handling problems. Thats every one of them.

Im looking for Billies but im not having much luck.

Bob.

GeminiCoupe · Post by **GeminiCoupe** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:05 pm

Look under the back of my car Bob, ull find some there

Nick-

Post by **wedgenut** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:49 pm

Yeah Bob look under the front of mine and you will find another pair but you can't have them because they are MINE all mine

I don't think Bilstein actually have an official listing for Piazza/Impulse. You need to find someone that has a cross reference from KYB to get the equivelant I guess.