baddog671

Nothing fancy, but I like it!





Aluminum and plasti-dip

uin2it

upgrade from stock!!

baddog671

Yeah, since mine is a 2006, I never got one from the factory. About $52 from AM for the Ford part, but I had about $25 in materials and only used half of it. I may find another use for the remainder.

CMcNam

Nicely done. Can you elaborate on why this was added? I'm actually curious. Difference in stiffness, roll, what? I'm sure mine doesn't have it. What benefit is there connecting the two?

baddog671

Im not exactly sure, but I think Ford started adding the brace on all models sometime during 07 or 08. I've read that the brace is more beneficial in chassis bracing than the more popular strut tower brace, so I thought why not, can't hurt.

http://www.americanmuscle.com/frpp-lca-brace-0512.html

CMcNam

It does make more sense to me than a strut tower brace, and I think if Ford felt it was worth the investment then it's probably a good idea. Combined with a STB, the thought of having all four corners of the front suspension tied together is very tantalizing. I like your idea of making your own better though! I haven't driven the car hard enough yet to be able to justify stiffening the front end up, so I might file it away as a future mod to look into. Looks great though, and frankly, much stronger than the one FRPP offers!

baddog671

Making your own parts is a Mustang necessity!

The FRPP unit is actually probably stronger, being steel round-tubing. Where as mine is aluminum square tubing. I just chose that because it was cheaper, lighter, available, and easy to work with.

I'll do a chin-up on it while installed to gaurantee my craftmanship!

157dB

Its all well and good unless you look at the attachment points on the stang
and see that they are essentially at an angle and not straight to each other.
You have essentially made an aluminum stress inducer.
Even the swing set material OEM brace has the proper angles on the
ends to conform to the chassis attachment points.
The A-Arm brace I made is constructed from an old S197 PanHard bar with
1/2" thick steel plates tack welded into the ends while mounted in position
on the vehicle. This set the proper angles requires for proper fit.
Then it was removed and fully welded and painted.
Even the bolts on the slotted attachment point side are spaced so
as to not allow any adjustment as it was built for my vehicle only.
If you are going to do it, and then show others, at least do it right...

baddog671

I remember seeing yours in another thread, 157. Quality piece.

157dB

And still doing its job 5 years later at zero cost to me.

Of course, I must mention that I have a full machine shop at my disposal.
For a shadetree brace, I guess his is fine and dandy.
Some demand perfection of their mods.
Other just cobble it up.