New products, export brace update

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  1. TOPORANGER

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    A real difference

    Took the gray car on a 50 mile road trip on country roads with a lot of twist and turns. You are gonna love this export brace. a great seat of the pants feeling of improvement in ride, handling and rigidity. Of course the car has the Monte Carlo Bar, HD Belly bar with CEEK, and SF connectors. This works.
     
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    Mounted in gray car

    Here is a few views of the custom Export Brace mounted in the Gray car.

    I am really happy with the way it came out. Started trying to get it manufactured last October. What a royal pain in the backside. Lots of broken promises.

    Finally ready to move on to Sub frame Connectors. I am going to call them "FOUNDATION BARS". They will tie into the front sub frame, (seat pan support), and inner rocker panels. They will provide hard point mount locations for seats, roll bar and cross member for a rear torque arm mount. All part of the Chassis Connection LLC mission.

    This new project is going to take some time, if history is any indicator. So do not be holding your breath.

    Thank you for your support.

    See my ad parts for sale section.
     

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    Nice setup! I probably shud get on the ball and put mine on.
    It looks like some changes were made in the productions ones; the shock tower flanges have lips - any special reason?
    I am in conference w/ the folks at Borgeson Steering w/the idea of installing their new pwr steering upgrade for Ford cars, eliminates all that steering ram and drop bracket stuff.
    No need of installing the brace and have to remove it.
     
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    Hi E.

    Yes, definite changes from the proto type you have. Closed the shock mount plate, added the up bends to increase strength and future product development.

    Keep me posted on your steering project.

    Best regards,

    Bob
     
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    In hand

    Wow, finally have some in hand. :bananaman

    I will be contacting those buyers that I told to wait until I actually had em in hand.

    See the parts for sale section.
     

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    nice...let me know if you have any extra, i was waiting on these to buy a couple of things at the same time
     
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    Thank you, thank you, thank you for making such great parts for our cars. I recently installed Toporanger's CEEK bolts, belly bar, monte carlo bar, and import braces and I have to say that in my 20+ years of building cars these were the best aftermarket parts I have seen. All are made of quality materials, good powder coated finish, and most importantly easy to install. I didn't have to oversize a single bolt hole or anything...the parts just FIT!!! Keep up the good work and I'll be on the look out for your subframe connectors. I do not know Bob personally nor have any affiliation with him other than as a customer.
     
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    Are these still available if so how much?
     

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