Calling all corner carvers!

AndyF said

The J bars work but they take up a bunch of space and force you to move things around. On my Duster project we went with the under fender braces and boxed in the shock mount. I don't have any way to measure chassis rigidity but this car seems nice and solid on the street.
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I don’t really have any issues working around the J-bars in my Duster. They’re actually pretty far away from the engine itself. Sure, there’s something there vs nothing, but they’re less of an issue than say, the master cylinder when you’re working on the back of the engine. I haven’t run into an issue yet where I tried to install something or work on something that I couldn’t because the J-bar was in the way.

I do like the US Cartool inner fender braces though, they’re definitely a well thought out solution, very efficient. For their size, weight and location I think they do a lot for improving the chassis. They probably achieve a significant percentage of the stiffening a set of j-bars do. I suspect the J bars probably do a little more, but they’re big, ugly, quite a bit heavier, and very obvious. Definitely not right for every build.