Various Chassis Braces?

[fatoni]

Originally Posted by norcalpb

....and the chassis as well.

Must be why cars like the ls460, S class, and Rolls-Royce phantom are such rough riding cars.

[norcalpb]

Originally Posted by fatoni

Must be why cars like the ls460, S class, and Rolls-Royce phantom are such rough riding cars.

Or it could be they weigh 3x as much as an 86 and weight may play a factor in how a metal chassis contorts across the road.

[Roadcone]

Originally Posted by norcalpb

Are you talking about the rear v bars from the 14r60?

YES! I NEED THIS!

[NoHaveMSG]

^^^ How do you fit your track tires and jack in the car with that setup?

[LOLS2K]

For the money, a track day w/ instruction would be much more beneficial/rewarding.

[Roadcone]

be a man and drive there on the good tires. Plus i never track the car, its a mountain toy

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Roadcone

be a man and drive there on the good tires. Plus i never track the car, its a mountain toy

I'd rather not wear out my stickier tires on my 3+ hour drive to the track. Or my 7+ hour drive to thunder hill I have coming up.

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

^^^ How do you fit your track tires and jack in the car with that setup?

Is that mounted to the rear deck? If so you can still lay down the seats and fit all your wheels in the back seat with gear in the trunk

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by finch1750

Is that mounted to the rear deck? If so you can still lay down the seats and fit all your wheels in the back seat with gear in the trunk

I can't get all 4 of mine across the back. 245's so only 3 fit.

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I can't get all 4 of mine across the back. 245's so only 3 fit.

One in the front seat? lol

[Roadcone]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I'd rather not wear out my stickier tires on my 3+ hour drive to the track. Or my 7+ hour drive to thunder hill I have coming up.

ewww at living so far away from everything and double eww at California. land of the racecar ftw

Road Atlanta 1.5hrs
Atlanta Motor Speedway Roval 3hrs
Carolina Motorsports Park 2hrs
Atlanta Motorsports Park 2.5hrs
Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval 1.5hrs
Roebling Road 4hrs
Virigina International Raceway 4hrs
Little Talledega 4hrs

The best mountain roads on earth start 45 minutes from my place too.

Also, you're crazy to not trailer the car that damn far...

[Roadcone]

for anyone saying that most braces are dumb why would Toyota have gone thru all the effort to list everything they changed here? the one that surprised me was the fender brace.
http://www.trdparts.jp/conceptcar/14r-60/14r-60.pdf

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Roadcone

ewww at living so far away from everything and double eww at California. land of the racecar ftw

Road Atlanta 1.5hrs
Atlanta Motor Speedway Roval 3hrs
Carolina Motorsports Park 2hrs
Atlanta Motorsports Park 2.5hrs
Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval 1.5hrs
Roebling Road 4hrs
Virigina International Raceway 4hrs
Little Talledega 4hrs

The best mountain roads on earth start 45 minutes from my place too.

Mad jealous, I do have a couple tracks within two hours, one of them is not that fun.

Also, you're crazy to not trailer the car that damn far...

Where's your sense of adventure? I plan to make longer trips in the future

[Gunman]

First, where can you get those triangulated trunk/back of seat area braces?

Second, I have seen OEM designed race cars, and even had another OEM ask us why we wouldn't use their their fancy street car upgrade brace, on the race car we were designing/racing. Lets just say OEM's may be good at production cars, but racecars, not so much. As for why TRD uses the fender braces...??? Maybe they do something, maybe they think they do something, but until you see torsional numbers, or other data, you really won't know.