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click on the photo to see them all. suddenly I want world rally blue parts in my BRZ :drool:

Want!

I want the Strut Brace / Brace Bar / Oil Catch Tank then paint some of my parts in World Rally Blue

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All I see is plenty of room for a turbocharger. :)

A couple of those look... pointless.

Why have a strut bar when the towers are already triangulated?

Why a rear bumper brace when the bumper beam is already connecting the ends of the subframe?

Odd.

BECAUSE BLUE!

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They all look awesome, but you'll only need about 4 of them. The rest just look nice. I wonder if they plan on having detailed descriptions to validate the increased performance they are providing? Some of them don't look like actual braces.

Cusco, y u take all my money? I just finished buying everything you have for my MR2...

It's all about increasing chassis ridgity. Standard parts all flex, this will stop that. More oriented at track work or the hard-core street racer.
Strut braces, underbody H brace and sway bars will do me :)

I'm pretty sure Draco has some knowledge and experience here.

As a track guy and racer a lot of these appear to be very pointless.

I want.....I don't care if i don't have the car yet I'm going to buy these parts..lol

Well then I guess there's only one way to find out! :burnrubber:

Because people love to buy shiny crap that they don't actually need, especially when it has a JDM brand name plastered all over it.



That "bumper brace" is the stupidest thing I've seen all week. The spindly little brackets on the end mean it's pretty much acting as a two force member (tension and compression only) in a place where a two force member is useless.

The rear subframe braces are only marginally less stupid. They are adding longitudinal support to a mounting point that only sees lateral loads.

The front subframe might be a worthwhile place to add some torsional rigidity, but the brace they're selling is very poorly designed.

And +1 on the marginal benefit of the strut tower braces (front and rear).

These pics really reaffirm my belief that people give these well known JDM tuning companies way more credit than they deserve.


Everything flexes, even shiny blue stuff.

Weird, no rear strut bar? :iono:

there is..you have to go into there site its there...

The front strut brace isn't a BAD idea. A 4 point brace like this will give more strength than a 2 point brace. While it is "triangulated" from factory, it can still flex. And all the replacement parts you see might be a lighter and stronger replacement to the factory one. I know the Cusco brace in the 8 is lighter and stronger than the factory (by a great margin) and the rear one too. I dont know if there is a factory brace/member in the rear bumper there, but if there is and this one is lighter if not lighter and stronger, than that's great, because the easiest thing to make something faster in straight line and corners is to reduce weight.
Looks interesting, when I have the car and start looking in to it and weighing parts, then I will be able to tell what's worth it and what's not, but untill then I can't say much else

Step 1: Build questionably useful chassis parts

Step 2: Paint them blue and shiny

Step 3: Profit!

You're doing it wrong. ;p

Step 1: Build questionably useful chassis parts

Step 2: Paint them blue and shiny

Step 3: ?????

Step 4: PROFIT!!

Never been a fan of Cusco. Pointless parts IMO.

Yeah, my adjustable camber plates and oil catch can don't do shit, let me tell ya :rolleyes:
Limited slip differentials, adjustable tension rods, coilovers, all pointless. No practical use whatsoever.

this

for most of the bracing i dont really see a point unless you are hemorrhaging money

To say they don't do anything, is not really a fair thing to say.

They do in fact do stiffen up the chassis, while might not be a lot, but a brace is always better then no brace when you need to stiffen up the car.

You can say is the performance gain Vs the cost is not that great though. That I truly agree.

Cusco will not market and sell anything if it does absolutely nothing.

There were no other alternatives for your car? Or did you buy them because they were JDM cool? Cusco makes subpar parts. This is just IMO.

No no, wrong. BECAUSE JDM.

A friend of mine won a pro solo national championship using mostly Cusco parts on his 2006 STI. (Coilovers, sway bars, tower bars, etc.)

Just sayin' ;)

A well designed brace in the right location is better than no brace, a brace that is poorly designed and/or installed in a location that doesn't need bracing is just extra weight and wasted money. We naysayers believe that the majority of the parts shown fall firmly into the latter category.

Well no rear struts

Because people will buy anything if it's marketed the right way. The entire aftermarket is built around selling parts people don't need and making them feel left out if they don't empty their wallets on parts to impress forum denizens.

I would bet that your friend would have won with or without the (JDM bling) Cusco parts.

Just sayin' ;)

its not suppose too....lol its just there to look pretty ;)

^But it won't be this shiny and blue!

Debatable. He used a different, more expensive setup the next year and lost whatever edge he had the previous season. Cusco doesn't make junk, and it all seems to work together pretty well in my experience.

I'll give you that some of the braces are questionable, but I'd have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they actually did some testing to see if one was needed.

Well there is no question that in general a lot of JDM parts are overpriced considering their build quality and questionable designs.

Correlation does not imply causation. There are countless factors at play in the differences in your friend's competitiveness from year to year, most of which have nothing at all to do with him or his car.

Will this hold up in court?



Justin

I object tho I do like the wrb paint job

Yes, unless your lawyer is massively incompetent.