Strut Brace on your Vert?
#11
RE: Strut Brace on your Vert?
I have a BMR brace on my 06 V6.
The installation is easy and painless, so I did an after-before-after test over a particularly vicious piece of city street near here.
My evaluation: bar in place reduced the dreaded cowl-shake by roughly 60%. Where it went crazy and was intolerable without the brace, with the brace it was tolerable, but just barely. Now that it's there, I'd resist very strongly any removal.
I just wonder if Steeda's double bar would be any better ...
The installation is easy and painless, so I did an after-before-after test over a particularly vicious piece of city street near here.
My evaluation: bar in place reduced the dreaded cowl-shake by roughly 60%. Where it went crazy and was intolerable without the brace, with the brace it was tolerable, but just barely. Now that it's there, I'd resist very strongly any removal.
I just wonder if Steeda's double bar would be any better ...
#13
RE: Strut Brace on your Vert?
ORIGINAL: Larmo
Pardon my ignorance... what is "cowl shake"?
Pardon my ignorance... what is "cowl shake"?
S197 is not as prone to it as are other convertibles, but it seems to me a strut brace removes a good portion of it.
#19
RE: Strut Brace on your Vert?
I'm going to get the Steeda one since someone said that it'll clear the plastic engine cover. If the bar helps in any way, then that's a bonus. If it doesn't, it still looks good.
#20
RE: Strut Brace on your Vert?
The 05 and up verts have just as much torsonial stability as the coupes. That was a main design goal of the team. I don't see any torsional issues on my '05, and I DON'T have the brace. Before '05, the verts were much less stable.