I've never seen this kind of strut bar put out by Cusco before, but its coming from a somewhat reputable source. It resembles the knockoffs on ebay, except the supports are on the front of it and are parallel with the main beam, unlike the mugen knockoffs where the support is on an angle and in the back. Any Ideas?

These are the only pictures give to me unfortunately. I know you cant see the mounting brackets.

 

You might consider holding off on purchasing tower bars if you haven't done a lot of work to the rest of your suspension (like, where you will see noticeable differences).

 

I'm pretty happy with my stock setup with H&R sport springs (1998 ITR ). This bar is for sale for $60 though so I thought it might be a decent upgrade from the stock ITR bar and I could even resell the ITR bar for almost as much.

 

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It wont make any detectable difference compared to the stock ITR bar.

 

looks genuine to me..
the sticker certianly is anyways

 

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Sorry, I forgot to mention I was a bling *****

 

At least get the 3-point. Then you'll have the bling factor as well as a better bar than the 2-pt ones.

 

I dont want a three point for a couple reasons.

-Main reason being THIS is the bar that is available to me for cheap, not a 3pt.

-Front/Side collision will jack up the firewall and leave me with a totalled car rather than a JDM Front

 

Never seen a real Cusco like that one.

 

I didn't know cusco had 'racing' written across the sticker?

 

nm....i guess they do

 

Looks fake to me.

 

it looks nice, but i would question if it was a fake.

 

Look at the PDF files on the top part of this link (to the Cusco site); I definitely think it's a fake.

http://www.cusco.co.jp/04ctl/04_str.html

 

it's a mugen strut bar w/ a cusco sticker.

 

looks fake, they just slaped on the sticker or something. when i got mines the sticker wasnt on and i could put it anywhere i wanted.

 

I e-mailed a few different Cusco headquarters around the world and heard back from a couple who both said they've never seen that design before and its definatley not a Cusco bar. Thanks for the help