Only had it on a week, and really liking the change. Easy install....once Greddy translated a bit of Japanese.

 

Do you have any pics?

 

http://www.clubxb.com/forums/f26/gre...tion-8588.html

I have the GTSpec brand braces...they do the job.

 

the cups that the bolts go threw on the ebay one (the one ive been thinking about getting also) look a bit tall of should i say deep.

i would take a grinder to it so i don't have any scraping issues.

 

I don't think that's the brace he's talking about. That's the Greddy mid frame brace. I think he is talking about the Greddy front brace that's similar to the ladder brace that everyone has from eBay.

 

or is he talking about the strut brace?

 

The only "front" brace Greddy offers I guess would be called the "mid" brace. It mounts just aft of those two angled braces...it is up front though. I'll get some pics. It leaves those stock angled braces in place. Still triangulated.

 

That's what I thought you were talking about. Please get some pics up. No one has ever put up pics of that piece installed and I have considered getting it for years.

 

Hey, I have both of the frame braces, and the front really helped to tighten it up. The mid brace didn't do quite so much. The only pic I have of it isn't very good but here it is..

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wow never seen that one before

 

I'm coming up on my days off...I'll try to get some additional pics. Simple install, and yes, you can feel the difference.

 

that brace is new to me

 

Yeah all of the other braces like the ebay knock-offs and the good ones have 4 mounting points, so you take out those stock bars you see in the pic on mine. The Greddy is just a single bar that reuses those two bars to triangulate the bracing. I would have liked to have got one of the Tanabes, but I running everything else Greddy, so I bought it instead. And I get a hell of a deal on Greddy parts too, so that helped.

 

Hey Crex, do you have a pic from the rear of the car....that's the only thing I was gonna add to your nice shot. I've also toyed with the idea of adding one or two more of these braces, evenly spaced, and further back on the frame. Anyone ever tried that?

 

Thanks for the pics, guys. I'm going to order this thing next week and when I do, I'll add some more pics.

 

Actually I don't haven't any other pics right now, but I do have it in the garage right now re-working my stereo, so I'll try to get one or two shots tomorrow morning and post them up. I was laying under it looking for some other place to mount the spare and you can see both braces plus the TRD rear sway really well.

 

Okay, got some more pics today from the back of the car. You can see them a little differently in these.

 

always better than without it

 

how much performance does the rusty exhaust give you? lol j/k

 

It's lighter with all those rusted out spots. less metal you know. LOL! Nah, I've been meaning to get new piping made for several years now, but I've just never got around to doing it. I really should tho this summer. The sad thing is, I put the Greddy axle back on about 3 months after I bought the car brand new, and it already looked like that.