DiGrappa brace ROCKS!! any one will improve the handling somewhat but Marks is totally awesome....well worth what it costs and very nicely manufactured as well...

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SS2000
[B]I take exception to some of the apparent "bashing" of small vendors that seems to consistently take place in this group.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by S2kRob
[B]I completely agree.

 

Huh? Are we claiming that there is a 1/8 inch difference in tensile strength between the Spoon tubular/welded design and the solid piece?! I don't believe it, finding hard to think that the tubular pieces can be stretched, compressed or twisted anymore than that solid piece without failure.. and mine has not failed. Just where do these numbers come from?

 

Depending on the Rockwell (.80 or down to a .5), steel does yield and in lower Rockwell #s you will tend to see yield marks when pushed. The steel could have also gone through an annealing and tempering process, further changing it's chemistry. But Utah's test is dead on for prime to order.

My money is on the new Tanabe X-brace. It comes with cool stickers. I'm all for supporting faceless conglomerates which subliminally control my desires through flashy colors and rapidly blinking web page designs.

 

hey you got a link or a pix for the tanabe x-brace? I bet that would be a cool little item if the price was right. However on the other hand it might be a crappy little brace with the tanabe name put on it thus allowing the company to charge whatever the hell they want for it. I guess i might be a little bitter against tanabe ever since my old exhaust got jacked and therefore i think the company is bad luck for me......

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by LATEOTT
[B]
Rob, believe me, I do not hold this mentality.

 

UtahS2k did the tests and this is what he relayed to me. If I remember correctly, he believes the difference is attributable to the mounting system of the DiGrappa as well as the front cross brace piece that triangulates the front structure of the X.

 

Hey ContactPatch,
If you want I can send you some stickers and a strobe light
I just posted to say thanks to all of you for your continued support of the "little guy". I am sure every one of us appriciates it
Thanks MUCH
Mark DiGrappa

 

The innovation lies within the little guy - we just don't have access to 50 CNC machines, cheap Brazilian scrap steel, and disproportionate models with their overly bleached smile glaring against the flash of the camera.

If we had that...and some cool stickers.. we'd be in business.