Lee M
Guest
Hi mate,
I fitted my S3 brace on the weekend, but i did not notice any water pipes being fouled? Any chance you could give me an idea where to look so i can check to make sure i've not got a problem.
Cheers
Lee
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Hi mate,
I fitted my S3 brace on the weekend, but i did not notice any water pipes being fouled? Any chance you could give me an idea where to look so i can check to make sure i've not got a problem.
Cheers
Lee
nickd
Guest
I was thinking about the S3 one on mine, but because of the bonnet strut mount i needed adapting, so I went for the APR carbon fibre strut brace, fitted like a treat and looks great. It a U shape at the end not circular around the supension top.
Perhaps they have changed the design, but on my brace on the o/s (drivers side) there is a little loop of metal that I suppose must connect to something on the S3. On the LCR it is in line with the water pipe and when we tried fitting it, it was rubbing against the tubing. In the end they removed this loop which allowed it to fit no problems.
Probably depends on your exact brace and position of the pipes. It was just safer for me to have it removed.
Here are some pics of the one from Hottuning.eu, IMO its looks better than the S3 one, however there is not much clearance over the engine cover and i need to fasten some pipes on the left so they are not rubbing off the stress bar.
i also had to file the part that goes around the strut tower to get it to fit, this was easy though, a small flat file and some wet and dry sand paper and you can't tell the difference.
The only reason i went with this initially is because Audi quoted me €130 ext vat for an S3 bar with is daylight robbery.
These things get damn hot being aluminium.
That is expensive! Looks like you'll have the remove the engine cover won't you? Is aluminium strong enough - maybe the sress it is under causes it to heat up too much?
No the heat is a directly from the engine bay, anything under there is gonna get hot, also what you cannot really see in the pic is that there is about a 1cm gap between the engine cover and the bar, which is enough IMO, also the engine cover is not a static peice of equipment there is a certain amount of give in it.
The bar is made form high grade treated aluminum and is rock solid at about 1inch thick, i am not worried about this at all.
A good garage will be able to do it okay. The S3 brace is very good and definately improved the handling - tightening up the rather loose front-end. It should have been on the car in the first place in my opinion.
Now I've had mine fitted I'd like to take a look inside an S3 engine bay to see just how the layout differs...
Lee M
Guest
Cheers mate, i know where you mean now. My pipe is just missing that bracket so it should be fine.
Thanks for the reply.
Lee M
Guest
Yeah i was pretty confident all was good, just wanted to make sure i hadn't missed something obvious.
paul-murphys
efr 6758 here i come
Look no further than the Audi S3 strut-brace (as pictured above).
Under £60 to buy, under an hour to fit.
sorry to bring this up again i got my s3 brace today, in the pic above i cant see if its grinded or cut part off the s3 brace out
my new ones catching on the bonnet lifter should i grind it off or cut out a bit, belows the bit im on about
an have people cut this off as it dont look like does anything on leon
thanks for help before i cut an fit bits need to no if doing it right
paul-murphys
efr 6758 here i come
paul-murphys
efr 6758 here i come
ive ordered r32 front arb just lookin at what option for the rear other then neuspeed as think £260 is a little steep.
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