Quote Originally Posted by B518T View Post
lookin good man!

any rough rough expectations of what price is goin to be lookin like?

LLTEK has a fron strut tower brace available, and I think that racetec may be in the middle of coming out with another batch...

I think the prices were 369$ for the racetec, but it was a 4pt. brace and then there is LLtek, and theirs goes for 299$, but it is a 2 pt brace...

as far as the rear goes i have only seen one rear brace for sale and I think it was just a cheesy two pointer, basically a bolt in bar...and all of the more substancial homebrew designs seem to hump trunk space :(.... heres the link to the rear for 130$

http://www.stableenergies.com/prodinfo.asp?number=GBA4

your design definately looks wayy more substancial

well, keep up the good work!

if they are reasonably priced I would definately be down!....especially if you could do a combo deal!
I know thats the biggest thing on everyone's mind - price. I'm kind of worried about it myself as well, I'm going to go shopping around at different machine shops once the designs are finalized. I'm going to aim for $350 each. If I can get the prices lower than that I will, but keep in mind these are not going to be mass produced by any means - they would be 100% custom designs.

I took a look at the LLTEK front brace and the Racetek one. Personally, I wouldn't run a 2pt design, and I would really prefer not to run a fully aluminum front brace either. So it looks like I will go through with a full front design as well. I really do like the racetek 4pt design though, if they sold it in steel for ~$300 I don't think I'd bother trying to have my own made. I am contemplating incorporating the last front two strut bolts, but I think its a bit insane given the lack of space and what it would be blocking.

I've done some more thinking and discussing with my brothers I've decided not to offer any simpler design for the rear. After running all of the models I don't think it would be much benefit to just fit a bar between those two strut points - I don't want to offer a compromised design. Also, I don't want to deal with sending a bunch of different designs to different machine shops. This means that there will be no cheaper setup for the rear as I was originally thinking. Go big or go home I guess

As for trunk space, I really don't think it's an issue and as I said the cross bars *hopefully* will be easily removable. If you want to run a setup like this I think trunk space is the least of your worries.

Re: The stable bar. It serves no support to the suspension whatsoever. Furthermore, looking at the length and angle on the harness attached to it in the picture I don't even see the point in having one. There have to be better options out there.

As a side note, how different are the trunk mount positions from 98-01? Are there only two variations or more? If it's only an inch or so of difference I'm pretty sure it can be accommodated. Anyone mind taking some measurements? Bolt-bolt along the floor would be a good starting point.