I've been trying to get some info on the blue powdercoated brace in this picture that's got the "Competition Engineering" sticker on it, but haven't been able to find anything. I talked with a rep at Comp. Eng. and he said they don't make anything like that and said someone must have just put one of their stickers on that bar. Anyone have any info on this? Maybe even who's car this is? I'm interested in getting one of these as it seems like there's much better clearance with the exhaust with it.

 

It looks like a custom brace that was bent to make some clearance for the exhaust.
My friend can make one of those easily at his work.

I am going to save this pic and show it to him.
I am going to run dual exhaust but I was going to have the exhaust dump before the axle. This makes it look a lot easier.

 

looks to me like a custom panhard brace. The only aftermarket brace I've seen (which is pretty damn rare) isnt tubular...I think it was atcually stamped steel also just a thicker metal. Hmmmm....I think I'll go and fabricate me a tubular one....

 

Any ideas on what the red bar could be?

 

The red bar is simply a tubular panhard rod and the car appears to be lowered so it's pretty much horizontal.

There's been a few threads on the blue bar before. Search under "panhard brace" and see what that gets you.

Ed

 

He's got a lot of ground clearance for the exhuast, are you sure that the car is lowered?

 

Im pretty sure that i've seen this car on E-Bay. Maybe about a month or so ago, it's black.

BC

 

I have researched this extensively in the past. It's definately a custom made panhard brace and mounts to the chassis side to the rear of the bracket the the original brace would mount.

Notice its positioning behind the panhard rod- the stock brace being hollow underneath allows for the panhard rod to travel with sufficiant clearence up into the underneath side of the stock brace. Lowering of the vehicle and boxing of the stock brace will cause interference of movement in suspension travel.

The only two places I have seen an aftermarket panhard brace advetised is:
1) on a Japanesse website- that we haven't found anyone to interpet.
2) Grannatelli Motorsports (Joe Grannatelli of STP fame) and there is not an adequate picture of it to reference how much and where it is beefed up- It was offered at approx. $225

 

I am going to have one of those made for my car. Looks pretty cool.

 

Here is the GMS one. It doesn't look like it would help with the exhaust situation like that custom ones does.