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Old 03-23-2005, 02:41 PM
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I was wondering if anyone has eliminated their x brace for ypipe clearence? I have a mufflex Y and a spohn tunnle brace now but the Y still hits the tunnl brace. I was wondering if it would be a bad idea to get rid of it all together
Old 03-23-2005, 02:46 PM
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I took mine off about a year ago and never noticed a difference even while racing....
Old 03-24-2005, 07:31 PM
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Mine came off last summer when I installed the headers. No noticible problems yet.
Old 03-25-2005, 12:26 AM
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I just installed jet hots and a ory and I also removed my x brace.The issue that im having is that when i take off hard and the car squats it makes a loud grinding noise. Has anybody had this issue?
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cool I guess I'll take the tunnle brace off then and just run nothing b/c the Y-Pipe is drivin me nuts rattling against it.
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I cant comment on the brace being all that effective or not because its pretty wimpy, but when I had my mufflex y installed, I also had KBDD subframes put on. I highly recommend these subframes, car was much much stiffer and the car squats so much better under power.
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Originally Posted by aztecz28
I just installed jet hots and a ory ?
I would check to see if the y pipe is rubbing the driveshaft .
Old 03-29-2005, 12:53 PM
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I installed the SLP revised under car brace. Helps on clearance, but still a POS . . .
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Originally Posted by Xsta Z 28
I installed the SLP revised under car brace. Helps on clearance, but still a POS . . .
Is this a panhard bar? I can't find it on the SLP Website.

Thanks.
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Hm m m m , did they discontinue it????




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