The Dragon Diff Brace
12-21-2003, 05:54 PM
#42
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Ok, the brace jig was not made up off of Jspecracers car for starters. In fact when it was put on Jspecracer7's car everything lined up perfectly. I make all the holes are slightly larger than what they actually need to be so that if a car is tweaked a little there is room to play as well and it should still fit no problem. If your car is bent to hell or you've creamed a cinder block across the under side of your car then It may not fit. If you have any fitment problems it's probably not going to be anything a rat tail file won't fix by opening up a hole just a little. Making a hole bigger isn't an issue with mounting because the stock rear sub frame braces that bolt to the mounting point sit on top of the diff brace and hold it like a big rectangular washer to keep it solid. The reason I went with this design is because I want to mount the dif directly under the diff and not forward of the diff. The power plant frame already does this and it flexes and bends and breaks. The farther the mount is from the diff the more leverage the diff has over it and the better the chance of flex. Just simple Physics.
12-21-2003, 06:15 PM
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Also if you want to be absolutly certin your diff is mounted you can probably bolt both of them up to the diff.. If you wanted to do this I can throw a spacer on the jig to make up for the thickness of his brace where it bolts to the diff so mine will mount on top of it . I will need to know if you want to do this when you order it however so I can make it special as the added thickness of his brace will pust the diff up a little if you use the normal one on top.
12-21-2003, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Dragon' date='Dec 22 2003, 09:15 AM
Also if you want to be absolutly certin your diff is mounted you can probably bolt both of them up to the diff.. If you wanted to do this I can throw a spacer on the jig to make up for the thickness of his brace where it bolts to the diff so mine will mount on top of it . I will need to know if you want to do this when you order it however so I can make it special as the added thickness of his brace will pust the diff up a little if you use the normal one on top.
I don't have wheel hop problems though...never had...
12-22-2003, 09:34 PM
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Hey RXRotary i still have your brace and it doesnt fit. And my holes line up all good. The exhaust gets in the way, and i think that's why most people are having problems. So your saying that because i have upgraded my exhaust that my car is bent, and or tweaked? I dont think so. Are you goin to stand by your product then and one mod my brace to fit or two take it back? Sorry to bring this into the open but you never responded to my last few pm's.