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From the look of it, it is the brace that joins the castor arms so that shouldn't be an issue. Search the cusco braces and see if they list the same one for both cars, for a more definite answer.

Neither lol, will be sweet f.a ... But seriously, on mine it made it "slightly" more precise steering, probably more just keeping going where u point it, on the oversteer side i guess u'd say. Prob notice more on track, which i've not tried.

I'm with hardsteppa. Likely amount of improvement is tiny. You are talking about bracing together two points that don't move a lot relative to each other in the direction that the brace actually works (which is along its length). The front mounting points of the caster arms may indeed move up and down or perhaps even stretch fore-aft a little bit with suspension loads, but these braces are not capable of stopping movement in those directions. Such a brace would have to be triangulated to some other location (like the rad support panel, or even better the front crossmember) in order to really do anything. And even then, it would be questionable if the driver could/would notice anything.

Yep not much of a difference, but then again, doesn't hurt either...and really, every littld bit helps...IMO a mod doesn't slways need to be a 'big' difference to be worthwhile. If yr getting it cheap, chuck it on there.

Nismo found it useful enough to make a brace for the s13

For me it made my understeer all but disappear in low speed corners. But this is a track car, so, I try a little harder than driving on the road...

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