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Originally Posted by F87source
In terms of wheel house bracing yes, absolutely better. Forces aren't transferred wirelessly, so clearly the more bolting the better forces can be transferred.
Longer arms of action means more leveragee thus more flex as well. more bolting reduces that.
As an overall package, alone the corner braces will not reinforce the strut towers enough to do so. Add in specialty items that act in more favorable directions of strut tower movement then it will absolutely out perform the stock aluminium brace:
1) You have the corner braces for wheel house bracing, plus a connection to the strut tower. This means the wheel house is reinforced and the strut tower is tensioned from the from against moving up and down or foward and back.
2) You have the stock strut brace again tensioning the strut from moving forward and back and holding it down.
--- The m4 brace only secures the strut tower from the back side so if the towers move up it will put alot of force along the weakest joint of the brace again the point of attachment which has little material to support it as it is only a flat section of aluminium joining it.
3) Then you have a dedicated strut tower brace to deal with all the movements left and right, and it is directly in the path of the forces leading to the most efficent force transfer.
I've consistently said that.
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The corner braces don't brace the strut towers though? They brace what's in front of the strut towers. The boomerang does that too - but is much more rigidly mounted (multiple fixing points to a now significantly stiffer strut towers assembly).
Perhaps if you try to explain point 2?