A few weeks ago I had an error in judgment trying to sneek my car over a small section of long grass in the middle of a parking lot, little did I know there was a conduit hidden in that grass and it did a number on the factory bracingon my car not to mention my front bumper... I was and am at this point planning on purchasing some aftermarket bracing to improve the chassis stiffness of the car because compaired to my old MR2 this car feels a bit loose, however I haven't seen many installed pictures of them and not sure if the dammaged parts are removed and replaced with the upgrades or not. The few pics I have seen they do not appear to be present, I have attached a pic with the parts in question that are now missing due to being torn off circled in red. What is the technical name for this part and do i need to replace this if i install a midbrace and such or should i just leave it missing? Also circled in green is what i think is called the front subframe support is bent and I can not find any upgrades for that in my search sofar. Is OEM my only option there. And before you say search I have spent the last few nights reading up on brace and suspension upgrades.

Red = Missing, Green = Bent


Any advice or info would be greatly helpful as I am getting ready to put this car under the knife in a month or so and need to figure out what i need to replace. Thanks in advance

 

Remove the red and replace the green with oem.

 

Green

http://www.courtesyparts.com/54422p-...8-p-17920.html


Red

still looking for it at this time

 

Cheaper: http://www.slidegood.com/catalogsear...z+cross+member

 

nice!

 

Thanks for the quick replys, Thats what I was thinking, remove red and replace green, and btw thanks for the link to slidegood, never heard of them and they are about to get alot of my money to replace scratched up interior parts in the next week or so...

 

Slidegood is a pretty cool place, only 2hrs from me.

 

I've ordered quite a few things from SlideGood, they are very friendly and have great deals!

 

ultra racing makes the cross member if you want to go aftermarket. Easiest place to find them is ebay.

 

Sorry to hear about your damage.These things happen.
If your are looking to stiffen up your chassis during replacing
some of your damaged parts,suggest you look at a GT Spec
mid chassis brace.I've got one on my Z.Its made a great improvement
on how the car feels on the road.As with most aftermarket parts that
are made of high quality material,its a bit pricey.But,well worth the cost.
Also,a quick bolt on using stock holes.

 

I have been looking at the Ultra Racing, and the GT Spec. I would ideally like to stick with one company for all the bracing as I like the idea of a set designed to work together. Any major differences between the two to consider? The car is going to be mainly street driven with weekend track use when I am not on deployments. Also how well do the Megan or other brands stack up to these two in terms of long term quality. Rusting and what not.

 

Whenever I do my bracing it will all be GTSpec. Contact ImportPartsPro (vendor here on the forum) as they have great pricing on GTSpec and often have sales on them. Watch the suspension marketplace for their threads.

 

Just pick a company, it's not like any of the braces other than the mid chassis brace do anything.

 

Agreed, I had all the GT Spec bracing on my car when it was built the first time and only the mid brace made a noticeable difference. It also does a really good job of protecting your y-pipe.