kshymkiw

What is your Favorite strut tower bar and WHY?

I have driven the xB with the following:
None
Hotchkis
DC
APR

I think the Apr has offered the best support. I enjoy it because of it's one piece design. It is rigid and a flat bar, as opposed to tubular and being bent. We all know that bending metal weakens it, and i don't see why companies who are making "performance" products are weakining the materials they use by bending them.
*edit* Also the price is extremely reasonable

Anyways what is your favorite strut tower bar for the xB, xA, or tC?

tinybigrig

i have the apr bar, nice piece, its acyually 5 pieces so you know....but any bar should work fine, i mean on these cars a strut bar isnt gonna do that much because of how close the strut towers are to the firewall...if your looking to tighten everything up get some underbracing. apr has a super nice setup that retails for like 190 i think and includes a matching piece to tie the rear, replacing the little stamped stock piece

brent

kshymkiw

That is correct., but i have felt a substantial (sp?) tigtning in the front of my car, more so than i felt with any of the other bars.

dinkjs

Strut bars for the front are such a waste of time.....if you want to "tighten" you go with the lower frame brace for the front....if you want a strut tower bar then you fab one up for the xb and use it for the rear

hotbox05

i've got a rear bar and it's a nice lil addage, now all i need are b-pillar bar/harness bar and a c-pillar bar. oh yeah and underbraces too. i didnt know there was a rear underbrace. oh ____ i almost forgot the progress rear bar. cant forget that .

chopaholix

Does CUSCO make bars for the TC?

Cameron

I have the Hotchkis.

I think the Hotchkis and DC are pretty. They do something?

tinybigrig

anythign on the front struts, isnt going to matter as far as brand. if you want some real rear underbracing get ahold of toyxbox he got a nice piecs form cabe toyota, and i have to say im gonna follow his lead

brent

Guest

I am all about the JIC strut bar right now. :D

squirrel

Technically, prolly NO strut tower brace is needed. Why? The front strut towers are part of the firewall. I seriously doubt the xB will produce and exert enuff force, during cornering, to cause flexing of the towers.

If anything, some frame bracing, or camber plates, would produce better results.

I'm not an expert though.

Guest

I tow with my strut bar, that the real purpose right?

tinybigrig

pretty much.......ehehe my friend drove my box with the bar on and said he felt the difference, but i think hes full of cit......but i know ill feel a difference witht the underbracing sway bars and flta-2's hehehe....i cant wait till jan

brent

Guest

Everyone loves the look of the huge bar I have so I am just going to keep it clean for everyone to stare at. :twisted:

squirrel

Gabe, if you knew the owner of JiC and how he acts, you would not have any of his products on your car.

Guest

did he not talk to you squirrel? Was he a punk? Well whoever he is , I hope when I meet him that he will be a professional.

tinybigrig

hey hey....dont talk bad about them....i gotta a bunch of cit coming from them....flta-2's and a set of seats....jon isnt a bad guy, he just is not a people person....im so sarcastic and dry that the two of us get along great :D

brent

squirrel

The JiC drift driver was dual a dual drift with another car, the JiC driver lost it was t-boned by the second car. When they both got back to the pits, Jon started kicking dents in the other car. Wrong answer.

You didn't know about this?

Sorry, poor sportsmanship. I'm not buying anything made by JiC.

I don't like it, so I guess I'm not everyone. Thank God.

hotbox05

i've always liked jic stuff but hmm that owner seems like an ___. i'd say that the products are still great it just blows to know that the money u are paying for something gets into the hands of an _______ like that.

Guest

Hey, he may have poor sportman ship but his products work great. :D

Thats why people buy scions, to be different, so its ok if you don't like my bar. :D You can always use another bar to your liking, just like in the scion comercials.

Lip

anyone interested in a group buy for these 3 items. where all the lava fans!!!!! i'm a distributor for GTSpec so i can do good on pricing if their is interest. Your absolutely correct regarding the front strut bars. I'm working on having these bars tied into the front corners of the inner fenders and or radiator supports at a later date. thoughts on these?

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