1. What does a strut brace do?
Also known as a strut bar and a strut tower brace. The brace is used to
reduce the flexing of the strut towers during hard corning. The towers and the body flex independently during cornering.
The brace ties both towers together. This distributes the forces on the strut towers evenly which keeps the wheels
and tires level with the ground which in turn gives you better traction.
2. Is titanium stronger than steel?
This is a difficult question because there are so many grades of steel
and titanium. Commercially pure titanium has a yield strength of 40-60,000 psi.
Titanium alloys such as 6-4 titanium (6% aluminum, 4% vanadium) has a yield strength of 130,000 psi. Cold rolled
steel has a yield strength of 50-60,000 psi.
304 Stainless steel has a yield strength of 85,000 psi.
What does all this tell you? Titanium can give you the strength of steel with 57% of the weight of steel. That's
the Titanium Advantage.
3. Is titanium lighter than aluminum?
No. But where titanium does have the advantage is in it's tensile strength
which means it takes a smaller cross section to give you equal or greater strength. This makes for the lighter
weight part.
