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dsakko · Jul 13th, 2007, 12:29 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Shorty (original)

I thought all strut braces are the same until I removed my Works one, and fitted the GTT one.
I've never tracked my car, but it really does transform the handling of my cabrio.

I've got the ProMINI strut brace, which has an off-centric mounting hole at one end to pre-stress the bar. I found once, after having some work done, that it wasn't correctly tightened. After tensioning it up I noticed a big improvement to the mid-corner precision and the solid feel of the front end (note that I've also got the early JCW coilovers and do motorkhana/gymkhana/autocross mine).

So my theory is that the diff. between the bars is more to do with "is there any slack after installation?" rather than "is one bar stiffer than the other?".

Jul 13th, 2007, 12:29 AM	#13
dsakko MINI2 Senior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Adelaide, S.A. Local Time: 09:33 PM Posts: 720 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by Shorty (original) I thought all strut braces are the same until I removed my Works one, and fitted the GTT one. I've never tracked my car, but it really does transform the handling of my cabrio. I've got the ProMINI strut brace, which has an off-centric mounting hole at one end to pre-stress the bar. I found once, after having some work done, that it wasn't correctly tightened. After tensioning it up I noticed a big improvement to the mid-corner precision and the solid feel of the front end (note that I've also got the early JCW coilovers and do motorkhana/gymkhana/autocross mine). So my theory is that the diff. between the bars is more to do with "is there any slack after installation?" rather than "is one bar stiffer than the other?". Feb 02 R50