The MM Strut
Tower Brace will make your car's handling more
stable and predictable by stiffening the front
portion of the chassis. Our unique strut tower
brace design provides a load path between the
two individual strut towers and between each
strut tower and 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 and
a lack of roll coupling. A MM Strut Tower Brace
will prevent the alignment from changing during
hard braking and cornering. An additional
benefit of increased chassis rigidity from the
strut tower brace is a reduction in firewall and
dashboard vibration, metal fatigue, and noise.
Ford finally recognized the benefits and started
installing strut tower braces beginning with the
1994 models.
Unique Features of Maximum Motorsports Strut
Tower Braces:
- Our main tubes are made of rigid 1-1/4"
diameter DOM seamless tubing. This tubing is
twice as stiff as the generally used 1"
tubing, and DOM seamless tubing is 30%
stiffer than the more commonly used ERW,
seamed tubing.
- The firewall mounting point for the rear
support tubes is the pinchweld that runs the
width of the firewall. When attaching
something to sheet metal, the best mounting
point is at a joint or a corner, such as the
pinchweld on the Mustang's firewall. The
pinchweld on the firewall was formed by
folding together three pieces of metal (the
upper firewall, the lower firewall, and the
floor of the cowl), and then welding them
together. This provides an extremely stiff
mounting point for our Strut Tower Brace.
- Nearly all other strut tower braces
attach to the 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 engines, our Strut Tower Brace
allows the use of all popular intake
manifolds because no part of the brace
passes over the top of the intake manifold.
- MM Strut Tower Braces are designed to
allow the use of MM Caster/Camber plates.
- MM Strut Tower Braces are attached with
high quality grade 5 hardware.
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