I looked at a strut tower for 20 bucks on ebay alloy. Is there anything wrong with them?? What is the diffrence between the 100 dollar ones to 20 dollar ones. Thanx

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strut towers suck in general. crappy mod unless you connect to the firewall. in the front.

only possible issues i could see would be would be crappy material like thin hollow bar or something.

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Brand names... brand names. Thats why they are so cheap according to some people I have talked to. Also, ebay mostly has the turbo braces so everytime you change your oil you have to take your brace off to get to the filler cap...

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ebay one i can flex with my hands and u probably wont even notice a difference...

a good strut tower will not flex... and would be adjustble but i havent found one that i like yet there that really expensive bar that shows up on ebay every now anda again....

Bill

You can have it cheap, fast or good. Pick any two.

If you want it cheap and fast, it's not going to be good.
If you want it cheap and good, it's not going to be fast.
If you want it good and fast, it's not going to be cheap.

i have the cheapy bars...you can notice a difference with them in. I figure that all teh adjustable bars would have some flex anyway and that the best bang for the buck would be these, IMO.

put one on scotts car while we were at the shop we didn't notice a damn thing...

Bill

You can have it cheap, fast or good. Pick any two.

If you want it cheap and fast, it's not going to be good.
If you want it cheap and good, it's not going to be fast.
If you want it good and fast, it's not going to be cheap.

>put one on scotts car while we were at the shop we didn't
>notice a damn thing...


Scott also has an uber setup for suspension as is. It helped with my coil overs and shit struts. I never really realized it did anything till i had it in for a while and then took it off. I drove without it and i could feel that it wasn't there. Thing is, i didn't know it was off, so the placebo effect wouldn't be the cause here. I was doing sumthin under the car while a friend finished up under the hood. He never put the strut bar backl on.

In short, the people with less-then-uber suspension set ups (BuckNutty) will notice a lil difference. People with uber set ups (Scott) won't notice much, if any, difference at all.

when i posted that i for a few mins forgot scott had Teins dunno why... i agree with your statement though bucknutty =)

You can have it cheap, fast or good. Pick any two.

If you want it cheap and fast, it's not going to be good.
If you want it cheap and good, it's not going to be fast.
If you want it good and fast, it's not going to be cheap.

IMO...nothing is wrong with them. my friend bought a DC sport strut bar that was like 150$ for his integra and i have the 15 dollar e bay deal...mine definitely flexed less and is made much better, although it isnt as flashy. as for getting the oil cap off, mine just barely squeezes through when the strut bar is on, but i can get it off, so im not complaining.
Brandon

Guys, uber suspension or not (thanks for the compliments though ), the one and only thing that makes a strut bar useful/less is its flexibility, or lack thereof. The reason the strut bars on ebay are so cheap are because they're made with really weak materials, they're adjustable, so that further eliminates their effectiveness, and while you might get some gains, the gains you'll get from a solid, no-to-little flex bar with no adjustability or weak spots are far more noticeable and worth it. To be honest, you may feel a slight gain with the ebay bars, but they're really more for show.

If you want a good strut bar that will actually help the car's handling (which, by the way, due to the physics, strut bars should really improve upon, by eliminating the flex the strut towers experience when load is placed on them in corners), find a solid bar that bolts right up specifically designed for our cars. There's a handful on ebay that fit this description, hayame makes one, and hurricane...well, we won't go down that road.

Expect to pay at least 100 bucks for a USEFUL EFFECTIVE strut bar. Otherwise, just by the ebay ones for looks...

$20=better turning

I'd buy em again. Made the best handling mod for the least buck.

Ya can't go wrong for 20 bucks...and for someone who says it doesn't do anything...ride my car with it on and off and tell me you don't feel a difference.

I'm scared to drive without it. No joke.


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