I'm looking to get a Engine bay strut bar.

What are some high quality brands that are not just for show?
Or could i put a Type R bar in a LS?

Thanks

 

theres plenty of brands out there that you can get. Just depends on your price range.

i have a OEM ITR front Bar. Got mines for 50 bucks. you can find one for around 50-100 depending on condition. Or you can go bling bling and get Mugen or Spoon one.

 

a bar is a bar is a bar. For a normal 2-point shock tower brace, just get something solid and stiff, none of that crap with adjustable ends. IMHO it's not worth it to pay 3x-4x as much just for a certain name (read: Spoon or Mugen).

You can get replica ITR bars that are exactly like OEM for much cheaper, and they'll be just fine.

3-point bars are a bit different, and I believe are actually illegal in many autocross classes other than Street Mod.

 

pretty sure OP didnt say anything about autocross.
and a solid design bar like mugen or carbing is def a better piece than an itr, spoon or skunk2 that is held together by bolts.

 

wouldn't that make the GSR bar better than the Type R bar?

 

Yes, I know the OP did not mention autocross. I was using that as an example to show that 3-point bars are more effective in bracing the chassis, because the SCCA sees fit to make them illegal in most stock/light modification classes.

ITR bar has bolted connections, but they are rigid, non-adjustable.

I guarantee you will NEVER see or feel a difference between a Mugen shock tower brace and an OEM ITR brace.

 

Or you can do something like this wich includes the stock gsr bar.
This is what i have just for now and it handles pretyy good into corners etc etc
Dont critisize me on my GhEtTo batery tie down

 

I probably wouldn't have noticed it till you mentioned it. hey as long as it works right? with that being said i'm going to agree with patrickgsr94 a bar is a bar. you're better off stiffing up the trunk and the hatch because of how open it is back there.

 

True true
Ill probably gett myself a custom one, and my trunk has a bar already and one underneat the trunk idk how u call it
Weld it up myself or something like that from some nice grade steeel and then paint it whatever collor i want to.

 

if you wnat the best bang for buck suspension mod, get a 22MM Type R sway bar. But yeah, just get a OEM ITR bar and call it good.

 

Can i put a Type R bar in a LS?
Will it fit perfectly fine

 

Yes it will fit, but you will have to add bolts since your chassis doesn't have the studs on the shock towers like GS-R's and ITR's do.

Also don't confuse what a shock tower brace and a sway bar does. They are very different parts doing very different things. A sway bar attaches to the moving suspension arms to help actively counteract body roll through corners. A tower brace merely ties the non-moving chassis together to help keep it from flexing during cornering. A tower brace is much more passive in nature.

The performance benefit from larger sway bars can be readily felt and measured. Despite what you may think, you really can't FEEL what a shock tower brace does. Really the only way to measure its effectiveness would be to stretch a piece of string taught between the shock towers, place a camera under the hood, then drive around some hard corners to see if the string droops at all (viewing on a monitor). Then bolt up a tower bar and see if that changes how much (if any) the string droops.

 

I wasn't confused. Just suggesting another way to stiffen up his suspension/chassis.