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[robb15033]

I placed an order on a set of winter tires for the Mustang. -255/40/17 Continental DWS for the front of the car.

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Also ordered a much needed front strut tower brace. I am most definitely ordering a rear shock brace in a week or so. It's a MM 96-97 Strut Brace

 

[Musturd]

Rear shock brace pics of said piece ?

 

[T-5 Killer]

Rear shock brace pics of said piece ?

+1.

 

[Musturd]

I welded one in between my shock towers. Made my car ride alot better with coilovers

 

[94 DropTop]

unless you have coil over that rear brace will be worthless.

 

[Musturd]

I just looked at the one from steeda.the finished result looks like mine but it's bolted in. Mine I welded it in if you have acces to a welder it took me like 5 mins to weld it once I cut the pipe to fit. Cut the panels to fit as well it cost me like 8 bucks for the metal. Just a thought .There's pics in my build I've done it to all of my mustangs .

 

[97stanger]

I have a brand new Steeda black powder coated STB that I would have let you got for dirt cheap! If you decide to return your MM one for whatever reason let me know and I'll hook ya up!

 

[MustangChris]

nice man! dove MM's products.

 

[robb15033]

Rear shock brace pics of said piece ?

You get behind the trunk/back seat. Cut out a notch to expose tops of shocks and bolt this piece in place. I will post a picture of one installed in a minute, Here is the brace:

 

[robb15033]

I have a brand new Steeda black powder coated STB that I would have let you got for dirt cheap! If you decide to return your MM one for whatever reason let me know and I'll hook ya up!

Thank you. I considered many but the fact that the MM supports each strut tower individually towards the firewall and together horizontally.
[h=1]Mustang Strut Tower Brace Tech[/h] Stiffen the front portion of the chassis with a Strut Tower Brace. Handling will improve, becoming more stable and predictable.

• Unique design provides a load path between the two individual strut towers, and back to the firewall. This keeps the strut towers from moving relative to each other. Flexing of the strut towers, both fore/aft and side-to-side, causes unpredictable handling because the flexing causes alignment changes.
• Increased chassis rigidity from the strut tower brace will reduce firewall and dashboard vibration, metal fatigue, and noise.

Maximum Motorsports Strut Tower Brace features:

• STB main tubes are made of rigid 1-1/4" diameter DOM tubing. This tubing is twice as stiff as the generally used 1" tubing, and DOM tubing is 30% stiffer than the more commonly used ERW, seamed tubing.
• The brace rear support tubes bolt to the pinchweld that runs the width of the firewall. When attaching to sheet metal, the best mounting point is at a joint or a corner, such as the Mustang firewall pinchweld. This pinchweld is formed by folding and welding three pieces of metal (the upper firewall, the lower firewall, and the cowl floor) together. This provides an extremely stiff mounting point for our Strut Tower Brace.
• Nearly all other strut tower braces attach to the very center of the firewall, its weakest and most flexible portion. Attaching there adds little stiffness, and leads to cracking and tearing of the firewall.
• On 5.0L Mustang engines, MM Strut Tower Braces allow the use of all popular intake manifolds because no part of the brace passes over the top of the intake manifold.
• Designed to allow the use of MM Caster/Camber plates.
• Attached with high quality grade 5 hardware.

 

[robb15033]

unless you have coil over that rear brace will be worthless.

Thank you, I did not know that. I will research and look into a rear sway bar.

 

[robb15033]

rear shock brace installed.-

 

[Musturd]

Yea that looks just like mine. Except I cut the panels better on mine and made mine myself

 

[robb15033]

Thanks for clearing things up for me! I feel that I need to stiffin up the rear end. The car has no sway bar. Please tell me if getting the rear sway bar is a good idea, and please tell me what kind to get- 1997 Mustang- (FYI~ lowered 2" all the way around with springs and struts/shocks + bumpstop, CC plates, and X-2 balljoints) if that helps in decision making-
Thanks again- Robb

 

[Musturd]

If you see my post above I said I made my mine for like 10 bucks

 

[MustangChris]

theres a how-to on this site, posted by 330cube(?), about how to make your own rear strut brace from a 2005-2010 part (???) he got his done for pennies on the dollar compared to the steeda unit.