Technical Strut Braces

[syphon123]

hi

wanna slap a strut brace onto my sei. I have looked at previous posts about the MOMO and OMP braces. have seen posts about both saying there tricky to fit as ECU and washer bottle are in the way?

which is better and easier to fit, as my gut is saying MOMO.
Where could I get one of these from?
Demon tweeks?

thanks

joe turner

Seicento Sporting 2000 X
Black
Black Front and Side Indicaters
Pioneer DCEH8400 HeadUnit + JBL speakers 6x9 in parcel shelf, 10cm in front, 10" Sub and GTO4000 AMP(600Watt).
Abarth badges all round from abarthbadges.co.uk

 

[HP]

Got a Sparco one on my cinq, they seem to have forgotten about the battery when they designed it - had to push it back out of it's tray to get the brace on[!]

Sparco and momo ones are 'down below' ones - going between strut towers.
OMP is an 'up&over' type, going up from the strut tops and across.

OMP needs trimming of the brackets on ecu and expansion bottle to fit.

Pete.
Cinq sporting 1242cc
Cinqs&Seis Yahoo group
Clubcento

 

[syphon123]

so whats the momo like for fit?
I know centoevo had one, but i saw when he was selling the bits the other day, the brace and induction kit went together as the filter cleared the brace?
am I going to have problems with a K&N?

joe

Seicento Sporting 2000 X
Black
Black Front and Side Indicaters
Pioneer DCEH8400 HeadUnit + JBL speakers 6x9 in parcel shelf, 10cm in front, 10" Sub and GTO4000 AMP(600Watt).
Abarth badges all round from abarthbadges.co.uk

 

[Silver_Sei]

i got the OMP on mine its not too bad to fit you just need to trim back the bracket for the ECU and expansion tank not too hard of a job looks good when fitted

James

www.clubcento.co.uk

 

[syphon123]

hi

have you got a k&n on ur engine. I had a look earlier when I was in the process of taking the dash apart lol.
kinda tight for space as the filter sits quite far back.

joe

Seicento Sporting 2000 X
Black
Black Front and Side Indicaters
Pioneer DCEH8400 HeadUnit + JBL speakers 6x9 in parcel shelf, 10cm in front, 10" Sub and GTO4000 AMP(600Watt).
Abarth badges all round from abarthbadges.co.uk

 

[Silver_Sei]

yeah got a K&N on it does nock against it sometimes but doesnt knock it off or hasn't in 6 months i had it. very pleased with it helps wi the 15s on

James

www.clubcento.co.uk

 

[Donna]

Does anyone have a pic of the OMP one fitted to a Sei as ive got mine wating to go on but dont want to botch it

 

[EvilJaxx]

Yeah this is mine fitted, quite old picture but I have pointed out the problems with yellow circles,

The battery is the main concern I had to liturally turn it around!

1. Battery positive turned round
2. "" same as above negative where postive should be
3. Just stuck some rubber under the strut and the bit of the ECU so that it wouldnt wear right through it! simple!

 

[Liam]

Please fit it directly to the strut tops and not on top of brackets etc.

Liam

 

[Alroy]

is there a noticeable change in handling with a strut brace?

my cars a lot more solid since i got the new springs but it still rolls around a bit

 

[EvilJaxx]

Please fit it directly to the strut tops and not on top of brackets etc.

Liam

Everyone says that, you cant fit it under the bracket for the last time, I said this on the last strut topic, the fact that the OMP strut brace has an edge on it that flicks upwards and if it was under the brackets the brackets wont bolt back on due to the lip on the edge of the brace being really big!

Take a look at Andys 16v Sei (TBsei) as seen on here he has it on the bracket too, + the bracket is perfectly flat on mine and sits flush to the body work so it makes no different at all!

is there a noticeable change in handling with a strut brace?

Yes there is a big difference to be fair, I took it off the other week for when we changed the shocks and I drove it without and it was noticible and when i put it back on it was awesum

 

[arc]

that looks to be properly spaced using nuts underneath, its not sat on top of the bracket like yours seems to be.

They will fit flat on a sei, only a minor amount of modding to the brackets as well.

 

[Donna]

Yeah this is mine fitted, quite old picture but I have pointed out the problems with yellow circles,

The battery is the main concern I had to liturally turn it around!

1. Battery positive turned round
2. "" same as above negative where postive should be
3. Just stuck some rubber under the strut and the bit of the ECU so that it wouldnt wear right through it! simple!

Thats an excellent pic as i dont know my ar$e for elbow in an engine :lol:

Will hopefully tackle this tonight

 

[EvilJaxx]

that looks to be properly spaced using nuts underneath, its not sat on top of the bracket like yours seems to be.

They will fit flat on a sei, only a minor amount of modding to the brackets as well.

Mine sits up on nuts the same as Andys does, As it was him I spoke to about fittment of a Strut brace and I did it identically to how he told me too!

The picture does look abit wrong but when I do some photos later for members motors il do a better pic for in here, Just got my brows all sprayed up etc!

2 x White primer
3 x 606 Dark Grey (Car colour)
2 x lacker

They look amazing will do some photo's later!

 

[Donna]

Thats me got it fitted, seemed ok to fit, one bolt didnt line up but a quick bash with the hammer and that was sorted lol

Will get a pick up tomorrow to make sure everyting is ok

Cheers for all the advise guys!

 

[Emm]

oooooh didnt know you could get a Momo strut for the Sei, where you seen that then? :chin: