Cusco Center Power Brace Installed (Finally!)

I am interested to reduce the body roll. Please feedbacks more after a 1K miles? Thanks.

 

Aside from the old brace that you showed you needed to remove, did you need to remove anything else, like any of the underbody shrouding?

Do you have a link to it on Horsepowerfreaks' web page? I can't find the product in their listings.

 

Thanks for your post and photos. This looks great. I looked on the link, but I did not find it listed on their site under Prius parts. Did you have to call them to order it? Thanks

 

Looks great Brian!! I love it. Unfortunately I am down and out for awhile after having surgery on my foot so mods have been put on hold. Have about another month to go with the cast and then lots of rehab. Dr. said don't expect to go back to work for 4-8 months. Rough, but well worth it. I just don't understand as to why no one will stock at least a small portion of these parts on a regular basis. At least smaller pieces like this and other suspension components. They are not that expensive relatively speaking and there is an obvious demand for it. Looks great man!! I hope to be back to working on and improving my car in the near future. Lowering springs are definitely next for me.

 

Thanks to you, I now have to add this to my todo list.

 

I have this on my "to-do" list to the Prius. I just can't afford it at the moment. I would love to cut down on that roll when you go around curves. That is definitely one area where the HCH-II did much better than the Prius does.

Anyone figure out a way to have the car absorb bumps a little better yet?? It's like when you hit it, there's nothing absorbing the shock of the bump!

 

I have mine ordered. It is a special order from Japan and takes several months to arrive.

 

Anyone besides venom and hi mpg have this installed?

 

Not yet, but I ordered mine ~ a month ago and it should be here by the end of April....we'll see.
I ordered from the same website as above, but the cost had jumped up by $19.
I'm not sure if I want to wait till I do my next oil change to install, which would be mid-June I'd guess. If the brace gets here by the end of this month as scheduled, I probably won't have the patience to wait...seems like a piece o'cake to install acc to Venom's pictorial....
Whenever, my impressions on it will follow.........

 

Hi Folks

I am new on here, but have read through this thread with interest. So much interest that I have located a source in the UK that can supply the brace for £145.05 including delivery and VAT with a 4 - 8 week delivery time.

Looking forward to getting mine and thanks to the OP for the useful information.

 

venom700 do you have a picture gallery of your Prius ? I can see the avatar, interested in looking at more pics.

 

Follow-up: I received the Cusco brace after about a 2 month wait and finally got around to (attempting) to install it today. Unfortunately, the center brace would not fit. Not even close. This brace is obviously for a 2010. I have a 2009 and I made sure that Kris at Motor Freaks knew this when I was placing the order. I am very disappointed, this is a very well made 4 point brace. I have sent Kris a message. It may be that they do not make a center brace for the 2009 or earlier. If someone has a 2010 and is considering purchasing this center brace, I would certainly sell it and they would save a 2+ month wait.

I was able to install the Tanabe 2 point front under brace and went very well; just a matter of removing a couple of bolts. Starting this project, I was thinking the Tanabe was going to be the challenge and the Cusco was going to be a no-problem.

I used the rhino ramps, driving on them head first for the Tanabe and backed on to them for the Cusco.

 

PM sent.. Thanks.

 

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Follow-up to my follow-up:

I finally did get approval to return the the center brace. They insisted it would fit the 2009. I discovered that this brace was made for the 2009/2010 Japan Prius. In Japan, they switched to the new model upgrade in 2009, so yes this brace does fit a Japanese 2009 Prius. Unfortunately they do not make this brace for a US 2009 or earlier.

 

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