floor/trunk brace Options

[pistatio56]

has anyone seen a brace like these before


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people say they make a huge difference in the Integra and Civic, are they useful in the Celica also?

[Digndoug]

Didn't you guys see the first one?  How it was smashed up from the flex?  You don't have to put in a full cage to get results.  Little things like that all over the place do help.  If things like that (ex. strut tower bars) didn't help, then they wouldn't be a stock item on the higher end sports cars.  My point is, any were you get the opportunity to add a brace from something to something in your car, it's going to make it stiffer, it's just a matter of practicality.
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I disagree with what you've said your performance guy said.  If he knows what he's talking about, he'd tell you it did something.  But, he might know it would do some, but that something is minimal so he just told you it wouldn't do anything.  Sometimes the benefits are some minimal that there's no point in saying that there is any, but that doesn't change the fact that it does work.  With a combination of a lot of little things such as these to help stiffen the car, you will eventually see results.

I’m not trying to argue with what your performance guy said, I’m just trying to explain why he said it.
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Ok theres a big dif between some random bar on the floor where nothing is going to flew to a strut tower bar. Im not saying a strut tower bar will do much, but there is nothing bracing between the up-built structures. Therefor ur going to recive a slit bit of flexing. Where that integra did it, there is nothing that is going to flex. If maybe its holding somthing down underneth, it might help, but i doubt it. U can try it, but im teling u, it will do nothing.