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    Default New Strut Tower Bar!

    Here are some amazing pics of my experiment. I could of gone out and bought a $130 Custco rear strut tower bar, but I decided I have better things to do with that money. Instead, I went to Home Depot and bought a 12 foot long 3/4" piece of pipe from the plumbing section for $4.98.
    I then drilled a couple holes in my wheel wells right beside my stut towers. I banged the crap out of the ends of the bar with a hammer and fed a bolt through and tightened them up. Here are the results:





    The results are amazing! I noticed a difference on my first turn. The car turns in so much more now. There is way more oversteer ( a good thing, since it had a lot of understeer). I can take turns so much faster and the rear end just seems to wrap itself around the corner. It's such a nice feeling. I am wondering now if I should make a bar for the front srut towers as well? Since this rear bar increased my oversteer, won't a front brace just tighten up the front end and therefore enduce understeer? I don't want that...but maybe I'll make one anyway just to try and compare.

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    nice, those make a pretty decent difference!
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    HAHAHA... I have to admit... for a ghetto mod... that looks pretty damn good.

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    nice job man! costed only 5 bux too!!


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    i wonder do all luders have a little leo in them?

    looks good though

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    omg thats awesome!

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    Plus, now you have somewhere to hang baby clothes you get from the drycleaners.

    nice

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    nice mod. Nice and cheap

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    Sweet! i was actually thinking about doing that myself, but wasnt sure what materials to use, or exactly how i would do it before.
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    Is the bar actually bolted to the top of the strut??. i thought the point of the strut bars is that they acutally bolt onto the strut.. keeping them tight while you make the turn.. in your pics it looks like the bar is merely bolted to the body of the car.
    No and Im not like them....

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    this is where a rear upper strut bar should be in order for it to do anything.
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    you bar doesnt connect to the strut at all.so i dont see why it would do anything. except make it seem like you have a strut bar.
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    It doesn't really matter if it connects the tops of the struts or not, they generally do because its more convenient to use the existing strut bolts to mount the bar to. It would do a bit, but in all likelihood you are going to start seeing stress fracturing, either of the bar itself or the tower where its bolted to because the load isn't being distributed at all.
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    Originally posted by 4wheeldrift
    It doesn't really matter if it connects the tops of the struts or not, they generally do because its more convenient to use the existing strut bolts to mount the bar to. It would do a bit, but in all likelihood you are going to start seeing stress fracturing, either of the bar itself or the tower where its bolted to because the load isn't being distributed at all.

    I never really thought of that... , but it does help a lot! i know that much. I know that real ones connect to the top of the strut, and that is ideal, but I thought as long as I am cose to the strut (it's still on the strut tower housing) it would be adequate.
    I don't knwo what else I could do...I was thinking of fabricating some sort of bracket for each side like in the above picture

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    Ya, sorry, I personaly don' think that it works. The little 6mm bolt holding it on there would bend and flex before the bar stiffined up the chasis. + rear strut bars don't make a noticable difference in handling unless your autoxing or something. Good thinking tho, I always like it when people diy and use there brains so you get a for that.
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    Its a whole 11mm bolt

    but ya that's cool, it was only five bucks, and there is some noticable difference...trust me...but thanks for the props man

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    Originally posted by ExtremeSi



    I don't knwo what else I could do...
    Buy a real strut tower bar, lol

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    Originally posted by MYKN
    you bar doesnt connect to the strut at all.so i dont see why it would do anything. except make it seem like you have a strut bar.
    Agreed.

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    Nice work man. Ghetto/DIY mods are the shiet:wink:
    Looks pretty pimp

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    u know u can get ones for like 35 bucks ..lol

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