red_line_cobalt

strut bars are not a crazy mod but does make a differance... your car flexes while driving and cornering. the strut bar "reduces" the amount of flex.... it does ot delete the flex. and if your car is up in the air there will be no pressure on the suspension pushing on the struts.

Maven

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This has really been beaten to deathe before.....BUT lets think about a couple things.


This bar that is "bracing" the front end is only held on by 3 8mm nuts on each side, torqued to 15lbft, and 90% or more of the bars have SLOTTED mounting bolts. =ponder

Out of the components of the suspension that are helped by being torqued down with the car in a particular state, I cant think of one off hand that its recommend the vehicle be raised off its wheels to tighten(SOP is torque at ride height/load if theres a preference) =ponder

Why wouldnt GM put one of these on the car if it stiffened it up? They put them on the CTS, Grand Prix, SUnfire and Cavy convertibles, etc, etc, etc....... =ponder

And of course the ever popular, why when GM was spending dollars by the truckload on the Cobalt race program didnt they install one? =ponder

Area47

not this **** again.

if you have flex in your strut towers that are welded to a integral part of the unibody you will have much larger things to worry about.
tweaked a pillars. broken windshields, creases in the roof. an overall not road worthy vehicle.

doubt me? go out and open your hood and look at where the tower meets the firewall.

red_line_cobalt

i am not saying your car bends in half... but cars to flex..... the body of any car flexes.... very little but it does... take your car and pull up on to a curbed incline driveway or something.... pull in on an angle.... you can hear your interior panel creek.... your car is flexing. trucks and framed vehicles do it too..

but i dont want to agrue about this either.... but thats just my thought on it

rocketpunch1221

Yes, but not the bolt-on bars for this car, like qwik mentioned.

This subject like Maven said, has been beaten to death, de-leveled, revived, re-leveled and beaten to death again.

Maven

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WhiteSSBalt

I have Eibach Sportlines, a DC Sports front strut bar and a Progress rear sway bar. Compared to my last two cars (RX-7 and an M3) the handling still isn't very great by any means, but its a good bit better than stock.

Area47

do a flex test on your vehicle. take the bar off while flexed and see what happens.

nadda

qwikredline

THAT SMILEY IS SO FUNNY

Bumpin Balt

I like this one better!

RecklessL61

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thanks man thats what i wanted to know

Maven

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Thats mildly humurous, I admit....but mine is better.

This ones prettty cool too, its better bigger.....I cant find the big version anymore

krazycobalt

Haha yup beaten to death and really if you wanteed to update you suspension and install something that makes a difference your fuckign dumb to just out a stb in. Most people would just go to sway bars, shocks, strut, dropping the car, etc., etc.

red_line_cobalt

yes your right.... but if you followed along in the thread you would klnow that this is ow what the thread is about ... the thread is about all suspension mods not wether or not strut bars do anything. and i am not the one who started about the strut bars so..............

i could do that... good idea

qwikredline

If this is about suspension mods, and you propose to make it a sticky make sure of your facts. I would think you dont want to put in stuff that is phony as a 2 dollar bill. And perhaps guys like Maven are more qualified to do this. Half cent already did one thread...it is a whole lot more accurate...just sayin'

Area47

wait, wut?

krazycobalt

In general if people are looking to upgrade handeling there not goign to look at putting a sturt tower bar in first