a friend of mine made a very nice strut bar for his hatch , the final design will be a one piece unit and he may make a few of them...



any interest ?

 

If you include mounting point pictures I might be interested

 

Wow, i'd definitely be interested .. there goes my grocery getter though ..

 

I'm on it , it was late last night....

 

Looks pretty good.. where do that back two posts mount?

 

where the strong bar would mount , to the bumper support brackets.

 

damn it, your friend stole my idea.
i assume the bars going towards the rear connect to the bumper support bolts.
(i think thats what those bolts are )
looks good

 

looks very nice!!

 

Probably won't believe me, but I also had the same idea. Mine though ties the rear tower mounting points with the rear bumper brace bolts effectively creating a huge X to stiffen the rear. Mine is still an idea on paper, your friends is an actual bar

 

the idea looks good but the design and materials could use a little cleaning up.

jesse

 

How much would it be? WOuld it work on an 99 sedan? Thanks.

 

need to use some diffrent bars the square bars look cheezy..also i dont like how it bolts the two bars together on the main strut bar that needs to go and the welds could use some work but its a good idea

 

it was a two hour prototype , did you read the first post at all ?

the FINAL design will be ONE piece , I dont understand why you think the materials are "cheezy" , its square tubing and very strong , the welds arent the best because this was just a test.

 

thinking around 150 , not sure on fitment yet...

 

square tubing ownz. Don`t you guys watch monster garage?

 

Monster garage rocks tha mouthafoukin hizzousse!!!!

Yeah that's a bad *** STB. It would suck to have a flat though, lots work just to remove the spair. But anyways I would consider one if he produced it.

 

it doesnt get in the way of the spare coming out.

 

ok cool then...that makes it even more appealing to me.

I hope your friend gets these out soon, it's a nice piece.

 

I'd buy it. Is the final product going to be any different?

 

one piece , much nicer
just wanted to give an idea of the design.

 

great idea. how much does it weigh? - just curious

 

not much at all.
maybe 1-2 lbs at the most.