If anyone else wants to drop $100 on something 'cheap' that doesn't actually do anything I've got some nice bellybutton lint to sell them... even better, it won't add as much weight to the car as the under-brace will!

 

Is it red though?


This part is useful in that it's the lowest part on the car. Mine is pretty banged up but my exhaust looks in great condition.

 

It is red, and if it's tighter then it works. Only thing is I have a few other suspension pieces as well. I think they all work together.

 

wouldnt a 4 point liek the f-sport under brace work better than the 2 point tanabe one? i mean if you can feel anything at all.

 

tunedparts rigid bars basically have this same concept except its two bars. don't know if this tanabe bar works or not, but the tunedparts rigid bars do work. i'm pretty damn low on coils and i could tell a difference each day i drove my normal routes. i stopped rubbing on turns i take everyday and the body in general feels more grounded. i'd go with the tunedparts rigid bars rather than just this bar

 

From my understanding Tanabe makes "useful" parts not just cosmetic upgrades. I'd have to say that unless anyone that currently has this brace on tracks their car, their opinion on if it makes a difference or not would not be entirely credible. As a side note, I'm not 100% sure about this but I once showed one of my Lexus Tech friends the front Tanabe Underbrace and asked if he knew anything about it, he replied that he's seen something similar to the brace in the IS C models, in the same location where the Tanabe underbrace would go. Can anyone chime in on this?

 

No, they do both.

Strut tower bars for cars that don't even have struts for example.

Under-braces are in this category on many cars as well.


More specifically, unless anyone has tracked the same, otherwise identical, car both with/without, and has specific times/results to provide, we have to assume it does not make a measurable difference... because that's the only real way to demonstrate that it does... and many experienced racers have suggested in previous threads that it is unlikely to do so except perhaps after one has done every other possible track upgrade (including track-specific tires) and even then it's possible it won't make a measurable difference... because other items (like using street tires for example) would cause the car to reach its handling limits on the track well before an "underbrace" could possibly make a difference.

 

what website or link could i find toms pieces, not too computer savy.

 

that sums it all