Strut brace foam
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Strut brace foam
Just thinking about it, do you think there would be any benifit to filling the front strut brace with expanding foam? maybe make it a little stiffer?
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Nope, strut bars are not even really needed on the RX-8. Strut braces are designed for macpherson strut suspension systems which the RX-8 does not have. I'm not sure why the RX-8 has one.
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It may not be needed for autoX, it surely is on a track
Yamaguchi's rx8 book says it's meant to be there and renderings of the stock chassis show it too.
Filling the stock upper brace would be a waste of time and money though. Its shape makes it very hard to fill and the results would be negligible. I'd either keep the oe one or buy something used from the fs section.
Yamaguchi's rx8 book says it's meant to be there and renderings of the stock chassis show it too.
Filling the stock upper brace would be a waste of time and money though. Its shape makes it very hard to fill and the results would be negligible. I'd either keep the oe one or buy something used from the fs section.
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I'll have to take a look at the Yamaguchi book and see what it says. I did not have mine on for a long time and didn't notice a difference. I do like strut bars though, I have three of them
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Looks ugly as sin afterwards but weighs considerably less than autoexe braces.
#10
I HATE SPEEDBUMPS!
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