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 ...

 

Pardon my ignorance... what is "cowl shake"?

 

That's when you can see the front fenders and the dashboard rotating in opposite directions around fore-and-aft axes, simultaneously. Usually a respose to multiple successive moderately-sized road irregularities presented to left- and right-side tires at irregular intervals.

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.

 

Great explanation.
Anyone have experiences with and/orrecommendationsfor calming a Fox body's shakes?

 

For convertable's get a Roll bar, subframe connectors and strut tower brace and you will for sure feel a difference

 

the sn95's came with one, i took mine off one time for some other repairs i was doing and drove it and noticed quite a difference without it.

 

theres a difference without a doubt but i haven't noticed any since i just got use to driving w/o it since it doesnt clear my new engine :[ so its currently off my car

 

My 3 point brace:

 

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.

 

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.