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Whoosh Brace Kit Install/Review [picture heavy]

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Did the install today. Had some trouble with the Trunk Brace. Emailed Ron, and had a quick response within minutes. He said the rear wheels had to be off the ground, and the car resting on jack stands. It fit, but it was a tight fit. Front brace went smooth. It is very difficult to get the 180 degrees form 45ft\lbs. TB_performance has 115ft\lbs. in their instructions. I started with that and it got me 90 degrees from 45ft/lbs. I don’t think I’m strong enough to get to 180 degrees on the ground with jack stands. Can’t get the leverage, so it’s at 115ft\lbs.
 


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Did the install today. Had some trouble with the Trunk Brace. Emailed Ron, and had a quick response within minutes. He said the rear wheels had to be off the ground, and the car resting on jack stands. It fit, but it was a tight fit. Front brace went smooth. It is very difficult to get the 180 degrees form 45ft\lbs. TB_performance has 115ft\lbs. in their instructions. I started with that and it got me 90 degrees from 45ft/lbs. I don’t think I’m strong enough to get to 180 degrees on the ground with jack stands. Can’t get the leverage, so it’s at 115ft\lbs.
I just did mine a couple of weeks ago. I had my car on ramps while I was torquing the bolts down. I had to turn the wheels all the way to one side to get a breaking bar in for leverage and eye balled the 180.


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I can also say with certainty that there are other braces that require the car to be loaded/not loaded or sometimes one side loaded to get the holes to match up on various different braces (2 point, 4 point and especially 6 point)
after well over a hundred of these braces out there, maybe 2 or 3 required the advise "try unloading the rear suspension"
 


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post #23 from Ford ST
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I can also say with certainty that there are other braces that require the car to be loaded/not loaded or sometimes one side loaded to get the holes to match up on various different braces (2 point, 4 point and especially 6 point)
after well over a hundred of these braces out there, maybe 2 or 3 required the advise "try unloading the rear suspension"
Sounds good! Thanks for the clarification.
 


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