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Author:  cush [ Tue May 09, 2006 4:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Strut Tower Braces
Are they necessary or even effective on a mini?
Author:  feralsprint [ Tue May 09, 2006 4:25 pm ]
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No :lol:
Author:  jbeenz [ Tue May 09, 2006 5:10 pm ]
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look at the size of the brace across the towers....
i have seen one fitted to the rear of a race mini but it had a feul cell, try putting one in the boot of a road car and see what gets in the way! :D
Author:  poeee [ Tue May 09, 2006 6:11 pm ]
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Wow your Mini has struts? OMG OMG OMG :lol: :lol: :lol:

You meaning some kind of brace between the top of the shocker mounts. I'd say you'd be better off putting an ARB on the rear, helps plant the front inside wheel on the ground coming out of corners (traction baby yeah!).
Author:  jbeenz [ Tue May 09, 2006 6:17 pm ]
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yea seen a race mini with a brace across the rear shocks...
Traction....at the back? naaaa, id much rather have lift off oversteer! yeeeeehaaa
Author:  cush [ Tue May 09, 2006 8:40 pm ]
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i was only asking because i remember seeing it once, i think, noticed that noone was really doing it


btw.. jbeenz.. i think your signature should read... "how fast to you want to spend?"

;)
Author:  Morris 1100 [ Tue May 09, 2006 8:48 pm ]
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cush wrote:
... noticed that noone was really doing it
Who is Noone? 8)
































When did the words "no one" lose the space between them?
Author:  sports850 [ Tue May 09, 2006 9:00 pm ]
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Just remember too , the cars normally fitted with strut braces are the ones with macpherson struts , on a mini it's only the shock absorbers that mount on the inner guards in the boot , not the entire suspension's weight .
Author:  cush [ Tue May 09, 2006 9:07 pm ]
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Morris 1100 wrote:
cush wrote:
... noticed that noone was really doing it
Who is Noone? 8)
































When did the words "no one" lose the space between them?


Since when have paragraphs been spaced by 32 carriage returns?
On ausmini, that's where! :?
Author:  simon k [ Tue May 09, 2006 9:18 pm ]
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cush wrote:
Morris 1100 wrote:
cush wrote:
... noticed that noone was really doing it
Who is Noone? 8)
































When did the words "no one" lose the space between them?


Since when have paragraphs been spaced by 32 carriage returns?
On ausmini, that's where! :?


did you count them cush? I counted 33 - you gotta include the first one :roll:

I put a brace in the back of my van to stop the wheel arches tearing out of the floor..... our front crossmember IS the strut brace - the rubber cone or hydro unit sits up in the tower of the subframe, and it bolts to the crossmember, which joins the 2 sides ;)
Author:  cush [ Tue May 09, 2006 11:04 pm ]
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good point well made.. ;)


btw... the paragraphs a spaced by 32.. ;)
Author:  simon k [ Wed May 10, 2006 9:46 am ]
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cush wrote:
good point well made.. ;)


btw... the paragraphs a spaced by 32.. ;)


oh yeah... sorry, I misread :oops: you're right as usual
Author:  =twista= [ Thu May 11, 2006 10:23 am ]
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mmmmmmm strut braces, give you better "ridgidy", less roll, so you can 'slide' better! 8)
Author:  Mike_Byron [ Thu May 11, 2006 10:39 am ]
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[quote]mmmmmmm strut braces, give you better "ridgidy", less roll, so you can 'slide' better! [/quote]

Where did you hear that - strut braces are used to stop Mcpherson strut towers flexing in and out under rough roads and corners. V8 commodores should use them to stop the weight of the heavy motor coming together. But they do not stiffen the ride to give better slides.

Sway bars and heavier sway bars do (by use of the bars torsion effect) do limit suspension roll which therefore puts more load on a tyre which does give a slide effect. The sway bars are mounted basically wheel to wheel.

Strut tower braces are mounted tower to tower.
Author:  drmini in aust [ Sun May 21, 2006 7:10 am ]
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Macphersion struts are a crappy design, their main benefit is they save room and $$ for the maker.
Any setup that puts bending moments on the shocker shaft is dodgy, IMO.
Strut brace helps but doesn't fix this design fault.
Funny how the V8 supercars don't use struts do they... :lol:
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