jlhobdey

just curious does anyone know of a reason not to build your own upper front and rear strut bars. I looked online and they are pretty steep in price.

Tyson

Fine if u can weld. Shrug

jlhobdey

Not the best welder (I'm OK).. but I know one of the best. My grandpa welded on damns for years heading up there in a month or so.. I should have the metal cut and everything ready by then. thinking of a 3 point front, and 4 point rear.. Thanks..

prelude182

if you can do it why not? i wish i had some fabrication skills cause my car would be stiffer than a frozen hot dog.

Tyson

I'd skip the 3 pt to the firewall, its not much of a reinforcement. Fender braces would be much more effective.

And I don't see a point in bracing the rear shock towers. There's not much going on back there.

jlhobdey

thanks! I'll take that advice

jlhobdey

It will likely be a bit.. couple months till I visit the welder (my grandpa) but I'll post pics when it is made

Tyson

I'd copy the password jdm design. Its the most straight forward way. Box the top of the strut tower and weld a beam between.

night

ya know, they do call these strut bars and I've read they help more with struts than shocks.. anyone that can comment on that?

Tyson

read my thoughts here.
https://honda-tech.com/forums/suspension-brakes-54/installing-strut-brace-2876238/

night

ahh, good thread. I'll put that in the road racing faq. I don't always check that forum for the load of general questions.

I have struts in the rear and that is more than good enough talk to convince me to put one back there.

blaak-crx

jlhobdey

My fiance has class late tonight.. so after work going to get started on building one.. I also need to move the fuse box some to accomadate it nicely. I was originally going with the NGR design.. Looked at the Password JDM one and they look the same.

4drEF

Fender braces + 3 point shock tower to firewall bar = winner! (as long as the 3 point gets into something solid and not just flimsy sheet metal firewall)
That ties in all sorts of flex vertically and horizontally.