New rear toe link brace for the Elise/Exige

New type of rear toe link brace

I have had a few PM's re the brace and will summarise questions here:-

Will not foul stock or Quicksilver exhaust manifold but one of US aftermarket exhaust systems will. The Brace is 28mm OD and sits on a 32mm chassis adapter / rod end holder (the rod end goes over the end of the adapter) - so the brace extends 60mm max out from the chassis face.

Fitting is easy and all bits are supplied. The thin alum heat shield material around where the chassis adapters (30mm dia) go needs a slight trimming. You probably of course realise that there are ways of setting the arms to close to correct but rear wheel toe should be professionally set. Fitting is also a good time to consider your ideal toe setting and camber.

We have S2 Rover kits in stock - shorter brace and different hub fitting system. If you are S2 Rover then let me know and will send you a pic of the hub fixing. Otherwise kit is the same components.

I had a different type of aftermarket brace, that retained the factory outboard ball joints on my 111R, but when I changed to this one I noticed elimination of squirming in rear end when coming off heavy braking and turning into corner on track days. When I originally replaced the factory system after 15000 k including 2 track days on R spec tyres I noticed that the factory outboard hub fixing bolts were slightly bent so when the SSC brace was developed, I changed to it immediately. The SSC taper turned hub fixings are en-25 ht steel and threads are 12mm x 1.5 pitch.

This was designed by Lee Knappett and refined over 2 years on 2 race cars - one of which has just been through the torture of the Bathurst 12 hr race with 3 drivers, stayed together and won its class.

Lee has tried numerous rod ends over time and these QA1 (US) chrome moly with internal Teflon coating are simply the best.

All steel turnings are high tensile and zinc plated.

Yes the pair of alum arms with rod ends, washers, nuts are lighter than the pair of factory arms with ball joints by 1kg (2.2lb).

In fact the whole kit with brace tube and chassis adapters is lighter than the factory arms.

Let me know if you would like any further info.

New type of rear toe link brace kit

Some photos of the new toe link brace kit on an S2 Toyota Exige (same as Federal Elise).

Outboard fixings are also replaced with turned ht fixings incorporating a taper for hubs and to take Heim rod ends.

New type of rear toe link brace

Phil,

Link arm is now firmly held at the hub. This was previously the weak link after the inboard was put in double shear.
We are confident that the arm fixing at the hub will not move (19mm en-25 steel with hub taper and 12mm fine threads). 2 years on 2 race cars has proven it. And the US (the best) chrom moly Heim rod ends on our recent class winner in the gruelling Bathurst 12hr are as good as new.

And a bonus is it is lighter than stock.


Some pics of the SSC rear toe link brace testing for your enjoyment.

New type of rear toe link brace

To answer a few more queries: -

Post cost will vary to countries other than the USA.

Kit includes installation instructions, and the kit is straightforward to instal, but professional rear toe alignment is necessary. We can provide geometry specs if required.

The factory ball joint bolts at the hubs can fail. When I installed the SSC Toe link brace on my 111R, I noticed that both of the factory hub bolts were slightly bent. I had only done 2 track days on sticky tyres to that point. We have seen one of the factory hub bolts shear in a side impact.

The turned chassis adapter in the kit is keyed on the back to go into the chassis keyway on Toyota S2 models- Picture of detail of brace to chassis connection attached.

The 10mm chassis bolts supplied are 12.9 grade.

Ian

I finally got mine installed over the week end..