E86 Front Triangulation Braces Retrofit

[liam821]

Man, I want to come.

I'll just flip you off from the cork screw, from the one time I was there in a friend's car.
(saw him track side taking this picture)

haha! That is an amazing picture.

Only like a forty hour drive. Don't be lazy lol

Seriously, I bet if you bring a pee bag, you could probably get there in like 38 hours. Easy-peasy.

[oceansize]

Man, I want to come.

I'll just flip you off from the cork screw, the one time I was there in a friend's car.
(saw him track side taking this picture)

Only like a forty hour drive. Don't be lazy lol

[bigjae46]

Man, I want to come.

I'll just flip you off from the cork screw, the one time I was there in a friend's car.
(saw him track side taking this picture)

Two hands on the wheel there buddy! LMAO

[Obioban]

Man, I want to come.

I'll just flip you off from the cork screw, from the one time I was there in a friend's car.
(saw him track side taking this picture)

[heinzboehmer]

I'm only a 10 hour drive away...let's do it!

Always down for a Laguna day. Bunch of people on here that I'm sure would join in too!

[liam821]

Forum Laguna day when?

I'm only a 10 hour drive away...let's do it!

[heinzboehmer]

Laguna Seca is on my list of must do's. One day I am going to ship the car to LA and drive up the coast to Vancouver. On the way north will be a track day at Laguna Seca. One day.

It's an awesome track and it's in an area with basically perfect driving weather year round. It does get crowded cause everyone wants to drive it (especially on the high dB days), but it's still fun.

Forum Laguna day when?

[D-O]

Also, brackets are on the car for some validation:



They survived a 100mi drive today and the car feels exactly the same as it did with the sheet metal prototypes. Today's drive wasn't all that dynamic, lots of highway stuff, but I'll do some more interesting driving soon. Doing a track day at Laguna Seca (with the infamous bumpy kerbs) next weekend, so that should really torture these parts

Laguna Seca is on my list of must do's. One day I am going to ship the car to LA and drive up the coast to Vancouver. On the way north will be a track day at Laguna Seca. One day.

[George Hill]

Yep! Confirmed by the scans.

Touring too as far as I know, although I don't have a scan of that one.

Yes, also tourings.

I need to print and test fit to test but I'd really like to do this mod too.

[heinzboehmer]

Also, brackets are on the car for some validation:



They survived a 100mi drive today and the car feels exactly the same as it did with the sheet metal prototypes. Today's drive wasn't all that dynamic, lots of highway stuff, but I'll do some more interesting driving soon. Doing a track day at Laguna Seca (with the infamous bumpy kerbs) next weekend, so that should really torture these parts

[heinzboehmer]

They are all the same

Yep! Confirmed by the scans.

Touring too as far as I know, although I don't have a scan of that one.

[George Hill]

I'm assuming the engine bays are the same between the sedan and the coupe.

They are all the same

[liam821]

Wow, this is amazing work. How am I just now seeing this thread? I ordered up e86 braces and am 3d printing all the parts now. This will go into the k46 (my sedan) - I'm assuming the engine bays are the same between the sedan and the coupe, but I'm not totally sure, will report back once I've test fit everything.

[heinzboehmer]

Thank you sir!

No problem!

Also worth mentioning that I was unable to find an off the shelf replacement for these studs, so I just stole them off of the stock brackets.

The old style brackets will have studs that press in from the bottom, but most cars should come with the new style that has the double ended studs. I want to say the part was superseded some time in 02?

[bigjae46]

Overall length is 32mm and has an unthreaded portion that measures 2mm right in the middle. So, 15mm of threads, 2mm unthreaded, then another 15mm of threads.

Thank you sir!