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Thank you @Mendel Leisk. I see quite a few good links in your signature, but you probably already knew that.

 

Just read this post and thanks for the Order! If anyone orders from us we can add in a clean EGR cooler for an additional fee.

We also offer additional Gaskets, O
Rings and bolts by request.


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Oven cleaner for the cooler. It's eats the carbon.
And a pressure washer.

 

Congrats Patrick! The one on the Red Engine stand is yours, just waiting to get this bad boy transferred over on a Pallet to get it shipped out. More pics to come……

 

How much? I don't think my engine ships until tomorrow. Maybe we can add it.

 

Kabooom!

She is on its way to you 10/31/22 as with two other orders




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Yep, I keep checking tracking hoping it will bump up. Doubtful, but it'd sure be nice to beat the weather.

 

It’s been a decade since I seen this! If you are an OG member of PC you know what I am looking at


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My dad's friend made and sold them. He was not enamoured with thee thin Tanabe fragile bar that hanged down too much and was easily destroyed.

 

He made and sold what he called the "box beam" center brace too. Toyota adopted his design without crediting him for the Gen 4 braces in 2016.

 

Here's another photo.

 

Here's mine, along with the cat shields reinforced with stainless steel mesh.

Mid brace is very early version.

Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.

 

Any objective data on the efficacy of those things?

 

Is this the polite way of saying "what a waste of money"?

 

I purchased my 2012 Prius v just three months after my husband's dad' and my dad's friend purchased his when it first came out.

Just right after, I noticed how it would make a "clunking" sound each time it ran over the shallow drainage trough when the front suspension went over it. It appeared that the front suspension was a lot more flexible than I wanted it to be.

On that account, I installed the then expensive over $250 Cusco strut brace that took 5 hours of time to put in. Happily, that eliminated the "clunk."

Our friend instead went with the Tanabe Sustec brace and found it hung down too much and not really durable. It did eliminate the "clunk" when he drove his Prius v over the same place om our driveway. On that account, he developed the solid billet aluminum front brace.

If I knew that I could get the same result for about $100 and install it in 10 minutes, I would not have bothered with the Susco strut brace.

Lesson learned.

 

A lifted Prii always puts a smile on my face!

 

How much lift is that?