Called sales at Tanabe USA. Said the strut tower brace, underbrace and coilovers R & D is done, but product release won't be for another 3 months or so.

 

already drooling for that underbrace

 

SOMEONE should contact GT SPEC to see if their looking for any TEST MULES. My constant calling netted me a partial sponsorship with pics of bars installed on my car for their website....

 

what exactly is the benefit of the underbrace?

 

My understanding is less chassis flex. Making your frame more rigid, making you flatter through turns.

Should complement the strut tower and sway bar sets nicely...

 

for you that are drooling for the underbrace. lol

i found one for sale on ebay. just over $200 shipped.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TANAB...item3f0d37079b

 

hmmm...seems kind of fishy. Wasn't it gonna be a few months before they released it?

 

im mot sure.. thats what zero said. but the seller has alot of tanabe stuff and is a legit seller.

 

Looks pretty legit to me. Has a lot of recent positive feedback. Just make sure you email the seller to make sure it's the right product and that it's not a preorder or something.

 

i just emailed him about it. hopefully ill get a response. the auction says he has 9 of them

 

I got a poorly written email back today. He said the auctions IS for a preorder and they are not expecting to ship parts for another 3 months. He also said tanabe is not making a ton of them so it might be hard to find after they are released, don't know if that's true or not but there it is.

 

Lol I doubt there will be a special limited production run of under body braces. This guy is a scam.

 

Yeah, I see zero point in pre ordering that. Who pays for stuff on eBay 3 months in advance and there is no mention whatsoever on the auction of it being a preorder. Thanks but I will wait for tanabe to release it

 

to me, ordering from ebay is always sketchy unless I see them on the manufacturer's website as an authorized dealer.

 

tanabe strut bar and underbrace are out. fastscions.com. $119.00 for strut brace. $199.00 for underbrace

 

Good find thanks!

 

Any one planning on getting the strut bar? Seems priced fairly lower than trd and cusco wondering how it compares

 

It DOESN'T. Hehe

 

Honestly, 2-point strut bars are similar in ridgidity. They may stop them from moving independently a tiny bit. I bet if you took a micrometer and measured movement in each strut during heavy manuevering, with and without the bars, there would be a small difference. The Tanabe is at least adjustable.

If you can wait for a triangulated strut bar, that would probably give the most amount of ridgidity and stop independent movement. But, who know's if anyone will come out with one.

 

adjustable vs solid is a very taboo issue...

but IMO, adjustables are not as good just because its adjustable. meaning that the setting that it is adjusted might move (while driving) and thus wont give u as much rigidity. with a solid bar, it will for sure not move (because it cant, since its solid). also....why make it adjustable? if its designed for the tC2 then it should be the size of the tC2...i highly doubt there will be multiple tC2s that have different widths. adjustable to me seems more like...."okay we made a strut bar...lets make it adjustable so we can sell the same one to different car models" which would mean that their R&D of the adjustable strut bar on specific car may be minimal, if anything

...with that said, i like tanabe, they are a good brand. but solid>adjustable struts any day of the week for me