As title says, wheres the best place to get a TRD front strut brace ?. i see fensports sells them.
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Best place to get front TRD strut brace
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Best place to get front TRD strut brace
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Anywhere that has one in stock!
Smartest thing to do is to surf eBay (beware of fakes) and check the for sale section on here. They come up often enough.
Smartest thing to do is to surf eBay (beware of fakes) and check the for sale section on here. They come up often enough.
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how can you tell its fake ?
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cmr2payne wrote:how can you tell its fake ?
Anything being sold on Ebay
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... got a point there.
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bobhatton wrote:cmr2payne wrote:how can you tell its fake ?
Anything being sold on Ebay
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Yes be ware of fakes, you need to be sure that your piece of metal bar is genuine or performance could be affected .
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My TRD WIDEBODY build thread http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=164957
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£214 for a sodding strut brace
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big_joe wrote:£214 for a sodding strut brace
Aye, ridiculous eh?
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And this is why replicas are fine
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Tsia wrote:And this is why replicas are fine
The TRD bars look the part, but I'd be interested if they really make enough difference over stock to warrant the expenditure.
Doubt you'd be able to tell unless really pushing it on track.
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Obviously without sophisticated measuring gear it's impossible to quantify but I certainly felt a difference after replacing the chocolate wrapper original with my TRD from Fensport some 5/6 yrs ago. Mind you that's on a t-bar... I'd assume the effect would be lessened (though still present) on a tin top.
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HighwayStar wrote:Obviously without sophisticated measuring gear it's impossible to quantify but I certainly felt a difference after replacing the chocolate wrapper original with my TRD from Fensport some 5/6 yrs ago. Mind you that's on a t-bar... I'd assume the effect would be lessened (though still present) on a tin top.
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The stock brace is hardly a chocolate wrapper is it? It's fixed to the car in 4 locations, and does it's job as it's supposed to.
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I do think the more linear the bar and the fewer fixings it has in it, the better. Adjustable braces just mean more play in the brace meaning less rigidity.
TRD brace looks good I reckon and of course is bling. I want one really, but unless it's noticably lighter than stock, and stronger, it's pointless in actual performance. And given how light the stock brace is...
It'd be interesting maybe to test. If you could apply a surface layer to the stock brace, something like paint or plastic, and drive the car hard for a while, you could see if the paint cracked - indicating flex in the brace.
TRD brace looks good I reckon and of course is bling. I want one really, but unless it's noticably lighter than stock, and stronger, it's pointless in actual performance. And given how light the stock brace is...
It'd be interesting maybe to test. If you could apply a surface layer to the stock brace, something like paint or plastic, and drive the car hard for a while, you could see if the paint cracked - indicating flex in the brace.
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Red, the oem brace that came off mine was bendable (well, flexible) by hand hence me referring to it as made from chocolate wrappers. My particular example may have already been bent/damaged of course but just saying in my case the difference certainly was noticeable... even off the car.
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HighwayStar wrote:Red, the oem brace that came off mine was bendable (well, flexible) by hand hence me referring to it as made from chocolate wrappers. My particular example may have already been bent/damaged of course but just saying in my case the difference certainly was noticeable... even off the car.
I agree, off the car, they are bendable, but not on the car when it's fixed in place.
It's effectively 2 strut bars connecting the front turrets to the center of the car.
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Plenty of other bits will give out on the car before there's enough of a twist to bend the strut brace when mounted. No wheels on your wagon sir
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My point was that I couldn't make the TRD variant flex by hand and so that coupled with (I believe) a noticeable difference in feel when driving leads me to believe the TRD is significantly the stronger of the two...
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HighwayStar wrote:My point was that I couldn't make the TRD variant flex by hand and so that coupled with (I believe) a noticeable difference in feel when driving leads me to believe the TRD is significantly the stronger of the two...
Yes it is by a long way
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