Is it worth putting braces on my Mark which has coils and lowering kit?

[fossten]

Also, would the IRS brace scrape the ground when I'm going over speed bumps?

 

[96mark8]

everyone seem to love them. i also am lowerd on coils a have no experince with the braces but if i had to guess i would say it would be ok.

 

[fossten]

Thanks for the response.

It looked like in Laser's thread about braces that the bigger benefit was to the cars that still had the airbags.

 

[LaserSVT]

Has no bearing on airbags or not. The front brace ties the k-members front and middle halfs together resulting in truer tracking over bumps. The k-member to firewall braces keep the whole k-member from flexing and again allows for better cornering.

The IRS brace is by far the best investment though. I bet the LCA mount flex is much worse on a coil car and would feel a bigger difference then I saw on mine with the IRS brace addition.
It is a MUST HAVE IMHO. The flex on the rear LCA mounts is severe cause they hang so low and the car rolls so much. After I did mine I couldn't believe that I could do a sharp turn-in and not have to re-correct mid corner cause the car was no longer going through sever camber changes in hard corners.

Get em.

 

[davidm]

The rear IRS support does extend down abit, almost like a tail hook. It takes awhile to get use to it from a visual point of veiw.
Never had a problem with it hitting the ground, and I have the oem air system.
The braces have been a very good addition to my Mark, the body flex is gone, very solid platform.