just contacted a guy willing to sell for 60$ he said that this is the real deal type r strut bar. He said you can tell because the mounting brackets on the strut are painted gunmetal... where as the knockoff is painted black.

 

Your best bet is to take off the brackets and look inside the bar...

It should look like this:

 

 

Great pix scafia, thanks!

I wish there was an easier way to differentiate because id hate to ask .. "can i take off the bracket and look inside"

 

It's skafia hehe, and the second picture was courtesy of jdmspecperf.com

 

What's a 'skafia' anyways?

Fake type r front upper strut bars don't look much different at first glance.

 

its your money, you have the right as a consumer to know u arent getting ripped off!!

 

I've had the handle skafia for 6 years or so and I got it from the song title of one of my friend's bigger brother's band. I forgot what they were called but they played traditional ska. The song was entitled skafia (which is a combination of ska + mafia). I liked it so it stuck.

Btw, there's a band now called The Skafia - but I had it first

 

Great pix scafia, thanks!

I wish there was an easier way to differentiate because id hate to ask .. "can i take off the bracket and look inside"

 

Hehe, didn't you already post this ?

 

You just posted the EXACT same sentences above.

Just ask to look.

 

WTF?.....................................

how did that happen?

honestly... ???

 

The real one has a nice polish and a clear backed decal...the fake ones i've seen have a dull metal finish with visable lines from machining and the decal is usually 3D

 

It's not really polished, its more of a brushed aluminum look and the R on the Type R sticker has little flakes of metallic stuff in it exactly like the R found on the stickers of the car itself.

 

I have my flame suit on I bought the knock one on ebay for $28, it looks hella better than the stock Si (JDM GSR) one and brightens the engine bay up.




[Modified by mugenracer, 2:19 AM 1/10/2003]

 

From that picture of the fake one you can already tell, the bolts connecting the bracket to the bar are silver while on the real ITR bar they are black.

edit- Also the bolts of the real ITR bar are allen key bolts and I don't believe they are on the fake one.


[Modified by SurferX, 6:35 PM 1/9/2003]