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I had to reinstall the brace when I installed a PM Fast Air intake. Luckily I had saved the stock parts after installing the stage one intake. They were buried deep on my parts self..
We run into this on occasion and the big sucker is designed to use that support plate. As stated above if you do not avhe it you need to fill teh gap where the support plate goes with washers or something as the kit is designed to put on a stock bike with the support plate. If you try putting this on without the plate it will not sit flush.