Race Skids Cross Brace...for sale

[e30trooper]

Because race car. GLWS

[ROLLingKING]

i dont get it, because race car?lol

thanks for the good luck tho. c'mon ppl.haha

make your e30 different from all the other ones out there.
just woke up bump!

[e46s54dr]

FYI, The race skid cross brace is a chassis brace. Its a brace that coneects and stiffens up the chassis.:D Also, when drifting, you want to start off with your car handling the best it can and learn from there. You want your car to go where you point it after the oversteer dont you? A front strut brace and coilovers will pretty much cause your car to go where you point it also so your comments are somewhat contradictory. Best thing for you to do is to tune your suspension for a neutral feel and start with less stick tires until you can master the drift. Drifting a well setup car is alot easier and quicker to learn than a sloppy car.

I still may be interested in the trade or possibly even an outright buy but Im still researching whether or not it'll clear my ie 25mm front sway bar.

i didnt say chassis bracing, sir..im saying this race skids cross brace. which is located up front..and i kinda still suck at statying sideways with great lines. its like starting out drifting an underpowered car with very sticky tires. it involves a lot more confidence with initiation. I dont have confidence yet so it doesnt work for me. less sticky tires are better until your working with faster speeds and better technique. u feel me?

If a drifter wants it by all means go for it. but everywhere ive asked, i still have yet to find a drifter with a race skids cross brace in their set up

if i end up wanting one again ill get one later. but meanwhile i want to put money towards strut bars (front and rear), coil overs, a cage(which is chassis bracing in a different area of the car) AND THEN go from there. but go and look at drift car setups or builds. do u see a cross brace in there? and if you do, cause im sure u might be able to find one, let me know how long theyve been drifting for.lol

it does a much better job keeping the car straight when im sliding around. which is why its great for track and auto x. in my opinion.

In trying to sell this ive come to realize a lot of the cross brace opinions are coming from ppl who have never been in a car with one of these. im talking about 90% of the opinions

one guy thinks it does the same job as a skid plate!
do you own or have owned a cross brace and drift your e30 3-4days a week? or just tear up empty lots trying to learn car control that often. i dont know all the technical aspects of cars cause im teaching myself the mechanics. but i am very good at hearing/feeling what a car tells tells the driver when pushing its limits. ive heard a lot of theoretical stuff about this but try it first before judging

[ROLLingKING]

Sold!

FYI, The race skid cross brace is a chassis brace. Its a brace that coneects and stiffens up the chassis.:D Also, when drifting, you want to start off with your car handling the best it can and learn from there. You want your car to go where you point it after the oversteer dont you? A front strut brace and coilovers will pretty much cause your car to go where you point it also so your comments are somewhat contradictory. Best thing for you to do is to tune your suspension for a neutral feel and start with less stick tires until you can master the drift. Drifting a well setup car is alot easier and quicker to learn than a sloppy car.

I still may be interested in the trade or possibly even an outright buy but Im still researching whether or not it'll clear my ie 25mm front sway bar.

yea..it is slightly contradicting. but my comment still stands. do u see any of these in a drift build??
i spoke with a lot of AE86 and 240 drifters on suspension and chassis set ups. and they say u do not want the FRONT too stiff. they also said its important the front has some flex. this was from guys who had totally gutted interior, serious drift set ups.

Even on vimeo and youtube you will sometimes see a car running with the front strut bar un screwed. the mounting brackets are there but they removed the bar connecting them. so that also goes what ive said on the front should have flex.lol and those were Japanese drift cars! i think they know what theyre doing. you havnt had a cross brace so u can speak theoretically all u like. and i am hearing what your saying. but you actually dont know unless youve experienced how the brace feels. ya know

its weird to explain. all i know is i feel A LOT more front flex without the brace. and it is easier for me to point the car while sideways. I will put the car back forward with steering and gas inputs when i want to straighten out. I dont want the car trying to stay straight without my inputs. hopefully that kinda makes better sense

ANYWAY i SOLD the brace to white325is. He is selling rear strut braces so we made a trade. im very happy. if down the road i get better, who knows i may end up deciding i want this again.haha but i plan to do coilovers, front strut bar, and a cage first. If you want a different opinion ask him how he likes it! seriously. cause theres not too many reviews on this brace and its effects
Thanks for all the comments tho. this brace is definitely a rarer mod amongst the e30 community

[White325is]

Already sold, I dun bought it.

[ROLLingKING]

and e46s54dr i picked my wording and placed it there on purpose. read it again.lol

he asked, "what makes me think its impossible to drift with chassis bracing?" something along those lines. i didnt copy and paste it verbatim
a roll cage IS chassis bracing so that is not what I was saying. im saying front bracing like this. again i spoke to some drifters a couple months ago, ignored their statement about how i do want some front flex for drifting. went ahead with building an ultimate braced up and tight car and now i understand where they were coming from with that stament.

this is also MY opinion so we may never see eye to eye. thats what makes building cars so great. theres many ways to do one thing. i guess it comes down to preference and skill level

btw i do like a good debate on subjects like this so please dont take my comments for being blunt or rude. i could talk about this stuff for hrs!ol and the more I do the more I learn.

Again thanks for all the comments and this is sold. definitely hit up white325is in about a week and ask him on his thoughts. i know hes gonna like it

[e46s54dr]

We can debate all we want but I dont think itll really go anywhere. Everyone is telling you that you shouldn't have the front too stiff in relation to your rear but did that brace really make such a big difference in handling that you feel the need to remove it? Or was it the fact that the bar was hitting your front swaybar and possibly causing it to become unpredictable? Just a thought.

I may not be the master of drifting, but I drifted a wide variety of cars to know that some of the fine tuned track/auto x cars make the best drift cars. So your advertisement of the brace being great for track/autox'n and bad for drifting really holds no truth me. I rather believe that the bracing was not good for your driving preferability