MicktZZZ

Quick update have been quoted £89 each if just having a single piece, but price drops to £50 each if ordering 10, this is in 4mm S275

Hi it seems the W brace is a common topic and I have searched other threads already but thought I would ask anyway so here goes, the W brace on my car is shot very surprised it passed MOT ! Anyway I bought a brace from TarmacSportz but it is fouling on my aftermarket exhaust (I think it's bigger 3 inch), I tried making some spacers to fit between the front fittings which lifted the brace away by a few mms but not enough and exhaust still knocks against brace, I see no way of adjusting the exhaust and don't want to add more spacers, so need to do something with brace, my options I think are,

1. Adjust the tarmacsports brace to fit by cutting/grinding away the front edge until no longer catches, problem I have with this I don't really like idea of grinding away a structural brace although I doubt taking a few mms off would make a difference, but not sure how much I would have to take off, plus if this doesn't work I doubt I could sell on the new modified TS brace 😞

2. Do away with TS brace although, which I could probably sell as never used, and fit OEM W brace, I don't know if the non-OEM braces actually improve on the OEM brace in terms of life or performance

3. Lastly get a new brace fabricated based upon TS design but altered to accommodate larger exhausts, maybe make cross member curved a bit like OEM W brace, or just move cross member back a bit, Im guessing TS brace is regular mild steel looks about 4mm thick so material should be easy to source, and then take CAD model to laser cutting service, I think material about £100 no idea how much to cut, probably expensive for single brace, but thinking if anyone else interested costs would reduce if say could make 4 or 5 out of same sheet of steel

Have attached a few pictures of ideas, Im not a engineer so cant say if these would affect performance etc, end of day I'm not driving car on edge every day so just need something no worse than OEM that hopefully lasts a few years

hi know its a while ago but did you sort this ? I'm having exactly same issue and am thinking of making some spacers to fit between the tarmac sportz w brace, think it only needs a few mms

Hi from another newbie .. great colour

Cheers will be a mix of re-use where they come out and replace when they dont 🤣

Hi all, been looking at 350s for last few months since going to a few meets/shows etc. with my son in his IS200 which he's been modding, finally took plunge a few weeks ago and bought an 08 with 91K, was intending getting one to mod with my son and drive weekends track etc. but as it this one pretty much has everything done apart from coilovers much to the relief of the missus 🙂 .. but it doesn't end there looking underneath rust reminds me of old alfas scary so just bought the rust buster kit and will be tackling over winter when possible.  Quick question as i remove bits I'm expecting to have to replace nuts/bolts and just wondered did Nissan use regular metric M sizes ?  Cheers anyway hope everyone is enjoying their Zs might get to see some next year