Racingline Rear Carbon Fibre Body Brace
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Racingline Performance Carbon Fibre Rear Body Brace
The new Rear Body Brace fits Hatch and Sportback A3 / S3 / RS3 8v models. It uses solid billet aluminium mounts secured into beautiful, ultra-stiff 3K-twill carbon fibre link bars to drastically stiffen the rear of the chassis.
Modern cars like the Golf run a pretty stiff laser-welded body-shell. Up front, the chassis is very rigid between the suspension tops, but at the rear there is much more chassis flex which negatively affects vehicle handling in hard use, especially when combined with stiff suspension or under the sort of loadings that track use puts on the car. The new RacingLine Rear Body Brace solves this issue by locking the crucial hard points together.
By reinforcing and tying the rear strut towers together, the brace helps to maintain proper suspension geometry under heavy cornering loads. Remove the body-shell flex, and the suspension geometry can work as it was designed to do.
Despite the added stiffness, this improved handling performance comes without sacrificing any ride quality or introducing any additional noise, vibration, or harshness into the cabin.
The clever design means that installation is simple, using existing body mounting points with no drilling needed and no removal of trim required, and is completely reversible.
RacingLine haven’t forgotten about practicality either. The brace is compatible with rear seats in either the up or down position, and due to the slim profile, boot space is almost unaffected. Even the load tie-downs have been incorporated into the lower mounts. Track your car on Sunday, school-run on Monday!
I put this on my RS3 8v facelift, no dramas fitting it and once in, these braces look immaculate. Adjustment was easy but I’d use your Allen keys longways to stop yourself destroying the threads in the ally parts when assembling.
In my opinion this chassis brace is important for all the 4wd MQB cars, it’s very noticeable how much more planted the back end is through corners and given a slight flick in the snow the slide was graceful and predictable. Not so sure that fitting a thicker anti-rollbar (as is often the case) would encourage the car to behave as expected given the state of the UK back roads. So all in all, this kit is a great countermeasure for body roll. Especially on the 5 door RS3 chassis.