Favorite Strut Tower Bar
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Favorite Strut Tower Bar
What is your Favorite strut tower bar and WHY?
I have driven the xB with the following:
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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?
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?
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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
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#4
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
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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 .
#8
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
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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.
If anything, some frame bracing, or camber plates, would produce better results.
I'm not an expert though.
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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
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Originally Posted by Stylis
I am all about the JIC strut bar right now. :D
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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
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Originally Posted by Stylis
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.
You didn't know about this?
Sorry, poor sportsmanship. I'm not buying anything made by JiC.
Originally Posted by Stylis
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:
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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.
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Sorry, poor sportsmanship.
Originally Posted by squirrel
Originally Posted by Stylis
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:
#20
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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