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Originally Posted by WRteam200sx
I just got the 2nd G-load brace from stillen and neither fit my 95 SER, both seemed just a fraction short as if they were bent too much ... i have since given up and will not use it, but i was wondering if anyone else has had this problem with their car and brace? also ... does it make enough of a difference to bother gettin a custom one made for it.
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I have a 97 and also bought the G Load brace a little over a year ago. It also doesn't fit, it's about 1/4 inch or so off. What was strange was some 6 months later I was going through the NISMO magazine while sitting in the lobby of a nissan dealership and noticed that there are 2 part numbers for 2 different g load braces that NISMO offered at the time for B14's. It had a 3rd for the B13 but that was obviously understandable. When I called stillen about this problem they said that it fits "most" B14's but they have personally run into some that do not fit and even told me of someone that brought their car in and brought it to Stillen and even they couldn't get it to fit. They did offer to give me my money back but I never took them up on that, I figured maybe someday I can get into a machine shop and do a little bending, stretching it out just a hair, to get it to work since the clearance of the crossmember is actually pretty substantial (and some bars actually rest as well as brace onto the cross member).
I even considered cutting it in half and introducing a double ended bolt with heavy duty welded washers into the bar itself to give the opportunity to "preload" as well as adjust the length but I have a feeling that would really cause integrity problems of the bar itself since it could easily bend in half under heavy load.