you need these ( fender braces )

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Especially if you have coilovers or beast nasty springs. They help a TON.Be warned, they are a pain to install because as you can see you have to take apart the whole front end of your car to get the fenders off, then you need a buddy to make sure your door doesnt fall off when you bolt it up to the door mount. You will be happy with the results though. Steering feel improves some, but mostly the suspension gets to do the work that the flexing chassis did before.


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cool... ive always wondered if those did much.

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i have those, it wasn't that hard to install them, i did it all by myself. just take out the 3 bolts and leave the door closed, that way it can't move on you

edit: i didn't notice any improvement, but i also switched to non blown coilovers(KTS), put on my strut tower brace and a few other things all at the same time

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what brand(s) do you guys have?

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i have the ones spl sells

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spl aslo

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180sx faktory also sells these. I forget his SN (he's the VG240 guy), but he makes them himself.

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i know drift factory carries the NAMS ones, i was kind of hoping i could have those compared to SPL

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Bronze MFP wrote:Especially if you have coilovers or beast nasty springs. They help a TON.Be warned, they are a pain to install because as you can see you have to take apart the whole front end of your car to get the fenders off, then you need a buddy to make sure your door doesnt fall off when you bolt it up to the door mount. You will be happy with the results though. Steering feel improves some, but mostly the suspension gets to do the work that the flexing chassis did before.
I can't get the pic to download. Stupid question time...so do you have to take the doors off to get these braces on?

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positronone wrote:I can't get the pic to download. Stupid question time...so do you have to take the doors off to get these braces on?
Pretty much, yeah. Why are you responding to every thread in Wheels/suspension?

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naed240sx wrote:Pretty much, yeah. Why are you responding to every thread in Wheels/suspension?
he's trying to whore it up in the smaller sub forums

wait a minute, i just realized this guy is in starkville miss. i'll be back in miss in december and going to state next fall


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