Hey everyone, just thought I'd share my pics and concerns w/ this install.
Everything went smooth except, as you can see, the strut bar pushes against the brake fluid resevoir. Simple fix is to loosen the nut and turn it so its on a slight angle, re-tighten. Theres also not much clearance between the stock airbox and the bar so if you plan on getting an intake, keep in mind that you may need a low profile one. Hope the Injen intake i ordered will fit ok. I'll let you guys know and post pics when i get it.

 

im just curious, what exactly does a strut bar do?

and is that on an EP3?

 

thats not an ep3, its a 2001 - up 1.7L civic

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by M1K3 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">im just curious, what exactly does a strut bar do?

and is that on an EP3?</TD></TR></TABLE>

On that car? The strut bar does nothing but look good. Notice that the strut towers are basically part of the firewall... the chassis is rigid enough that the bar is not making any difference.

 

quality doesn't "look" too good. bar is bumping against clutch master cylinder. well, looks ok for cosmetics

edit: i meant brake reservoir


Modified by 03ephatch at 5:14 AM 6/12/2005

 

its not bumping on anything but the brake fluid resevoir, theres clearance around everything else. its for a 2001-03 civic, mines an 05. but like i said, quick fix is to just adjust the resevoir position a bit. i haven't done that yet. today i will. and i agree with the statement that it prolly doesn't do a whole lot, but it was cheap and i think it looks kinda sexy

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by yobtah &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
the chassis is rigid enough that the bar is not making any difference.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i beg to differ cause when i put my spoon bar on my 7thgen i noticed one hell of a difference

 

where'd you get your spoon strut bar from? I'm having difficulty finding them for 7th gen civics

 

^^^where would the mounting points for the cpillar go?

 

Thats the Alex bar btw.

 

oh boy.

a few things...

if the bar is bumping into the reservoir, that's NOT GOOD.

loosen the the ends on the bar (not the mounting plates) and flip the bar over.

what's the point to having a c-pillar bar in a car with a bolt in roll cage like in that picture above? it's like adding a wire coat hanger to reenforce a steel i beam on a building.

oh wait, i forgot about the bling.

 

Its supposed to be for the HUGE gap the hatch leaves un supported.

 

if it's not triagulated it would be pretty useless.

 

there is another hole on your strut tower that is lower and towards the front a bit you can relocate the clutch resivoir to that hole and clear the bar with no problems. (this is required for the neuspeed bar that I have) The larger of the 2 resivoirs is the brake. the small one is for the clutch..... the strut bar made a difference for me also.

 

problem solved, simply took off the metal bracket holding the small reservoir and bent it ever so slightly in two places so that it puts the reservoir closer to the firewall, away from the strut bar.

 

james, how do you like your injen sri, i have one on the way. any noticable difference in power? how's it sound? looks great by the way, can't wait to get it

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by yobtah &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">On that car? The strut bar does nothing but look good. Notice that the strut towers are basically part of the firewall... the chassis is rigid enough that the bar is not making any difference.</TD></TR></TABLE> I totally agree. I sold mine as soon as I put it on the ep3....that **** didn't do a damn thing. The chassis is so much better than my last civic I owned.