Whitestang41791

hey i wanna get a strut tower brace for my 09 gt and was wondering if there was a difference between the ones that bolt onto all 4 bolts or the ones that bolt onto just two on each side..
thanks

ffk_pennywise

They really dont do anything for our cars. Looks only. So no, I dont supposed it makes any difference.

Whitestang41791

interesting..on the reviews people say it really tightens up the front end

Twstones

I don't know if they do much for the coupes, but it made a noticeable difference on my '09 ragtop. The biggest difference is when you hit a small pot hole with one front wheel. Lot less twist, or shake.

ffk_pennywise

Use the search button up top and you'll find plenty of people who will tell you they dont do much.

siberian.mist

i had the steeda one and i didnt really feel anything, it does look good though

DRock

What i found when i searched was that if your car is an 05 or an 06 than there will be a noticable difference because of how week the towers are. The front end was beefed up in 07 because of the development of the GT500......it was something along those lines.

Norm Peterson

Upgrading the chassis to suit the GT500 is part of it.

The rest of it is that even if a STB doesn't do much for overall chassis stiffness (it doesn't), it will do enough locally to make it "feel" more solid. Best guess without doing a finite element analysis is that some of vibrations that occur without the STB in place get chased off to higher frequencies where the vibration "shapes" aren't as severe and you don't notice them as much. Even though you probably don't think of chassis vibrations as being the unibody and subframes flexing (moving) slightly, or that there are many distinctly different vibrations all going on at the same time, that's exactly what's happening. What you perceive - "sense", if you will - is the sum total effect of all of them.


Norm

SteedaGus

Theres quite a few FORD engineers that would disagree with you, and our own engineers as well.

One of our customers happens to be a former engineer on the GT500 program from 2007-09. Even a simple, bean counter friendly brace as the one used on the GT500 made enough of a difference in chassis rigidity to make the difference between the chassis meeting a durability cycle of 100,000 miles vs 150,000 miles. And the production GT500 brace is considered very weak compared to our standards.

Here in Florida, its hard to feel the difference a brace makes unless you are driving over railroad tracks everyday. The roads here are pretty smooth.

Just cause you can't feel it doesnt mean it doesnt make a difference. Its not something you can quantify like a cold air kit or rear end gears.