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Old 07-21-2006, 02:35 PM
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So here's the question, what's the best, where dose it go, and how many would i need? i know there's a "bar" over air intake and one behind the back axle, other than that i know nothing of this subject.
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The grey bar is an anti-roll bar or a sway bar. It reduces body roll in corners.

The silver bar is a rear lower tie bar, which reduces flex at the lower rear control arm mount points.

An upper front strut bar SHOULD, on our cars with an intke, go in front of the intake elbow at the Throttle Body.

You can see where it would go in the next pic.

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isn't there a bar of some kind that fits in my back seat area?
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Yeah, that would be called a rear upper strut bar. Not really useful on our EM's from what Ive heard. Just not enough structural metal there to make any type of difference.
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Default Re: Sways, Struts, and that S@#%, what gose where? (Red_EM2)

what about the c pillar on our cars?
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What about them? There again I dont think there would be much to worrk about beefing that area up, as theres not really enought structural basis there I wouldnt think.

Plus I believe that the back deck on the coupes would provide enough rigidity to not really have anything to worry about.

IMO, its overkill.
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upper strut bars dont do crap for our cars.... waste of money! What makes the difference in handling is the rear lower sway bars.
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yeah just wondering if they do anything for our cars, whether its just all cosmetic and waste of money or not
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