The following from Kenny Brown in regard to thirdgen products:

James,

Thank you for your inquiry. We have many requests for 3rd and 4th Gen F-body products. Plans are to bring 3rd and 4th Gen F-body products back sometime early next year. We will make special production runs of minimum quantities of 20. I would like to stay in contact with your group as we get our product back up as we welcome your feedback.

Please sign up for our newsletter and it will alert you to when products will be available. I also added you to our "wishlist" email and we will try to contact you when they are available.

Also, please share with your group that we are celebrating Kenny's 25th year of building performance cars and parts with a two day track event and car show at Putnam Park (just outside of Indianapolis). All car makes and car enthusiasts are welcome to attend. We are trying to locate as many Kenny Brown cars as possible, so if you could spread the word as Kenny built a number of Camaros and Firebirds. I have attached a flyer [below] with the information along with our website www.kennybrown.com .

We are looking forward to building F-body products again. Before Kenny's gig with Mustangs, his personal driver was a 68 SS 350 Camaro and a 70 350.

Thanks for your continued interest in Kenny Brown products. It is greatly appreciated!


Cari Southworth
Kenny Brown & Company
847.487.3705

JamesC

 

That is great news. Did you ask what parts, specifically, they are going to be reintroducing? Hopefully the lower chassis brace I asked about in the other thread. I would like to grab one of those.

 

its nice to see that there coming back out with f body parts... too bad i have nearly all the suspesnion upgrades... like the other guy said i would like to get their lower chassis brace seeing that no one has made one but them and i cannot find a used one anywhere....

 

That piece was the specific reason I contacted the company. I can only assume that it will be a part of their run.

JamesC

 

just curious... how much were those things when they did sell them... i would love to add that to my suspension mod list..

 

A post from 2004 says $108.99.

EDIT: The current Mustang price is a bit less. For more info about the brace (though for a Mustang), see the link below:

http://store.kennybrown.com/product/...d-shelby-gt500

JamesC

 

Awesome. They made some really cool stuff back then that I wish I could have had on my car. That inner brace that mounts under the flywheel in between the inner frame rails is something i'd buy in a heartbeat.

 

Great to hear they'll get back into F bodies, are they the people that produced the Street cage or was that someone else?

 

Keep us updated with any info you receive in the future.

 

Subscribing to this...I need a little tightening on the underside.

 

I have a KennyBrown Performance STB on my 89 formy 350 and I like it but really think it needs a lil tweek to be a lil better.
I cant remove my dizzy with the brace installed..
Hope they change that

 

They make a Street Cage for the Mustang, so....

Reid, will do.

Ttop350, same problem with my Edelbrock.

JamesC

 

To keep members current on KB's plans. Bump.

JamesC

 

I was bummed when I was buying suspension parts and found out they were no longer selling for the f-body, glad they see there is a market still. like everyone else, the brace was a Brown only item that I wanted.

 

I talked to a car lover at a car show over the weekend. He actually mentioned, without prompt, that he'd had the brace in question back in the day. My hope is that will be KB's first piece out.

JamesC

 

There will be a huge market for that brace.. Everyone on here who has a built suspension will want that thing lol

 

what brace is this you guys are talking about?

 

There was a picture floating around here but I can't remember where. The brace ties in the front subframe laterally under the transmission which prevents spreading in that part of the frame.

 

oh, didn't know something like that exitsted, basically what I recently built? A brace that in my case doubles as impact protection for the pan???

 

that looks like it! How much lower is it than the tranny pan?

 

Just as low, but the pan is very low.

 

Some info/pics (of both the KB and a homemade version) below:

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/susp...tiffening.html

JamesC

 

I hope interest is still high on KB's reentry into thirdgens.

JamesC

 

I have seen some Kenny Brown STB 's for third gens on Ebay lately.

 

Any new information on these?

 

I would buy this brace in a heartbeat if it came out today. Any news?

 

I wouldnt mind getting there street cage they use to make for the 3rd gens.

 

X2 on the Street cage.

 

..

 

That street cage looks pretty good. A removable harness bar and you are set.

 

Any updates about this?

 

Come on KB, you can do it. You made it years ago lol

 

I've e-mailed the company a couple of times requesting an update but never received a response. Too bad. I'd suggest that companies are missing out on an item that would probably sell very well. I know I'd be in.

JamesC

 

I think I could be pursuaded to buy this.

 

I'd jumped on it too. I think companies are missing out on an opportunity.

JamesC

 

So this thing keeps the center of the car from sagging...front to back?

 

It sounds like KB has moved on to bigger and better things. Possibly this is an opportunity for one of the suspension vendors that sponsor TGO (Spohn, UMI, Founders) to jump on this opportunity and start building a brace like this for our 3rd Gen cars? There seems to be enough interest on the forum to warrant them looking into this (I mean really, this design doesn’t look that complicated to mimic).

 

Side to side. Check post #21.

JamesC

 

bump...

 

I've e-mailed several after market manufacturers about the brace and asked them to chime in on this thread. Maybe one or more will be interested.

JamesC

 

A straight bar with angled ends for bolts?
I can't weld, but someone, please take my $$$!

Raf

 

Request noted. Will discuss at next new product development meeting.

ramey

 

Being a vert owner I'd be in for one!

 

Figured this was the case a while back when it was discontinued - no reason at this point in time to think they would start making them again without a stable market.

 

The following is from Founders:

"We could easily make one but we only have 4th gens at the shop. If you can supply us with a car we would be happy to design one and put them into production."

At least some interest is being generated.

JamesC

 

Ok, who is located near San luis obispo, CA

 

Founders is somewhere is CA someone should donate there car, I would but im in CT.