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Fitted my ASR Subframe brace and Whiteline 25mm Adjustible rear ARB. The subframe brace is required because the subframe on the SiR uses thinner steel than the Type-R, and fitting a thicker ARB can result in the mountings tearing away. The brace also has the added bonus of stiffening the chassis up at that point. It's a VERY nicely made piece of kit, really well machined and it's is made from a very thick guage aluminium.

The ASR, ARB and associated hardware:

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Old ARB off, it's basically a piece of dental floss compared to the Whiteline item:

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All bolted up, another added bonus, it looks cool :D

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So does it all make a difference? **** me yeah. The car handled really well before, nice and neutral, with easily controllable lift-off oversteer, but I was finding it would give a little hint of understeer in certain situations.

But now there is NO understeer ATALL. It's still largely neutral, but go past the limit and the backend floats out in a beautifully progressive way without having to provoke it by lifting off. It was fun before, now it makes me grin like a lunatic.

Very, very pleased with the results.

I fitted the Mugen stripe too, pics coming up...
 
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Well happy with that, it really sets the car off. Rim tape didn't turn up though :(
 
mr_x_plosion said:
Looks good, what tyres are you running and what size?

I found on 15's the standard 195/55/15's were awful, although I never had the Bridgestones on and they are meant to have a stiffer sidewall.

Tegs are very fussy when it comes to tyres.

I have Bridgestone Potenzas at 205/45/16. I'm finding them pretty good, could be better in the wet though.
 
mr_x_plosion said:
Im ITR_Nick on the ITR forum if your on there, not on much any more though as I dont have a car at all, banned :(

Yep, I'm on there under the same name.

Vita said:
Looks nice Drexel. Offside front bumper, You scraped it? :eek:

Was like that when I got it unfortunately :(

Will get it sorted at the same time as the sideskirts/lip.

MrSix said:
Looking very nice on the whole, however I'm not sure I like those wheels in black, they look a little bit too much like steelies with no hub caps in those pics. That may not be the case in "RL" though?

It does look better IRL, but TBH black wheels are 'marmite'. Are personally love the look.
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there


Drexel I've done exactly the same to the Mustang and I witnessed exactly the same kind of improvements. I've also done quite a bit more and cannot get over how such simple things can vastly improve a car. :)

Absolutely, it was the same when I did it to the scoob. In a lot of ways chassis mods are more satisfying than power mods.
 
Dup said:
How much did that set you back?

ARB was cheap as I got it from a guy on the DC2 forum, he only had it on his car for a month.

The brace was £130 from the states. Got stung for import duty on top of that too. I didn't actually know I would need it when I bought the ARB, so I ended up eating in to the money I had set aside for the paint :rolleyes:

That'll teach me for not researching.....
 
[TW]Fox said:
I demand this thread turns into 6 pages of people slagging him off for putting a Mugen sticker on a car that isn't a Mugen Honda ;)

:D

I'm ready for it ;)

[TW]Fox said:
Looking good dude - any more trackdays planned?

Trax at Silverstone in September is a definate, maybe something else before the year's up too.
 
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