Did this some time back but decided to make is a Guide for other users...

 

To add to the various suspension mods I thought I would add a rear brace.

Idea was to brace the rear support and further add strength to the existing brace bars.

 

The jury is out on how effective this is but for me i did find it helped.

First off I purchased a VW Golf MK4 rear alloy brace as know that these fit our cars.

Like this one...

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item232746f630

I test fitted it and found that on our cars the turrets that the brace would fit to has less metal than on the Golf which made bolting all 4 bolts a little impossible.

I then thought I would only use the top holes and felt that would not be very secure. 

Then looked to maybe fit it lower down on the rear arch panels, but that defeated the ability to brace the structure points correctly.

I ran the car about for a day with just top bolts and I could feel the strength on the brace working on taking a tight turn.

Then decided not happy and the bolts could come loose with twisting, and being me would not accept a none perfect job.

So few days later my friend welded a couple of bars to the lower part of the turrets to allow bottom bolts to be fitted making a more secure job. Although this meant removing most of the plastic panels and carpets

You can see the added bars (lower plates after I gave then a coat of paint)





Bar fitted







Made sure the plastic quarter panels would fit (close) whew....




i then had to trim the side panel carpet to allow covering the bolts.





Carpet trimmed and std braces re fitted




finished

 

I later decided to wrap the brace in black wrap

 

 

more recently in carbon wrap..

 

but have no pics yet......to follow

 

 

 

 

Ok when do you start modding my car? LOL

Lol....what do you want doing dude..

All of the above and the rest of your guides LOL. At this stage it's the getting the bits and pieces ready so each step is easier.