From all the pictures of various strut braces I've seen, I've noticed a variation in the manner of mounting to the strut tower itself. Some use some sort of mounting bracket in which the bar that goes across the engine bay mounts to. This results in a pivot point at the location where the bar mounts to the bracket on both sides of the engine bay. The edelbrock brace uses this type of mounting. Then there is the one piece brace that mounts directly to the strut tower with no additional brackets used. The BBK brace uses this type of mounting. It appears as though the bracketed type is the more flexible of the two, which I would think isn't a good thing. Obviously any strut brace is better then none at all, but does the one piece design technically offer the greatest amount of structural rigidity? (I'm not asking whether or not you can actually feel the difference in real world driving)

 

A good pivot brace will be mounted to the cowl so the bar across the engine bay will not move on the mounting bolts at the strut towers. Although, a single welded piece is more rigid they are more difficult to install and remove for servicing the engine.

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