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Would the strut bar help in a head on collision? I. E. Stop the engine moving towards the cabin?

Mordant Vistas omfg I couldn’t have explained it better myself

Whatever his looks may be, I'll tell you this. He's intelligent.

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10 and 35.... so 45?

Exactly, he body of a 10yr old with a degree of a 40 yr old scientist.

Hblog - 10 and 35.... so 1035?

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If u paint it red it won't b street legal

Definitely

clownavenger yeah it's not street legal to paint it red. But each sticker you slap on it adds roughly 5 HP

Antonio Conejo i know about the power of stickers but it may get too hot down there when i rev my rotary to 9500.

Decepticon Leader pretty simple my man

Yeah, he explains clearly and very detailed rather than others who said it's just to tighten the suspension and chassis

I almost choked on a peanut butter and honey sandwich laughing at this comment

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Thanks, glad you enjoy the channel! Donated the Integra but I have an S2000 now! :)

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Very well said

i put i strut brace on my totally stock beater mazda protege and the difference is amazing. the car feels so flat in corners now. im planning to put one on the rear of my e46 m3, but everything im seeing is saying it wouldnt do anything. a bit confused with the consensus on that, the rear of the car definitely feels like a week point in handling so i cant imagine how it wouldnt make a big difference.

@@AC-wl7ve only problem with the rear is that you might need the trunk space of hauling your junk. Unlike in the front where it would not take up any space. Otherwise yeah, I don’t see why it wouldn’t help, even if just a tiny bit. It’s actually a BMW engineer who said that strut bar might not help in “handling” but it would help maintain chassis shape that may sag thru the years. Specially 90’s car or older.

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Cheers to your ideas and opinion. Cars are carefully engineered for purpose, appeal, and a certain lifespan; but it's a business, so compromises are made. Simply, if something minor like a an upper strut bar really added so much precision, and hence safety, to the suspension then it would be found on more cars wouldn't it?

tyler t Totally agree. Ive changed from Alfa sport suspension to a Bilstein B12 kit and the need to brace the strut pilars is clear.

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im planning to do a rear strut brace on my e46 m3 as i definitely feel some flex in the rear of the car, it seems like a weak point (sub frame is reinforced as well.) but it seems the general consensus is that a rear strut bar would do practiacally nothing so im a bit confused on this. i imagine it would make a huge difference.

Car stays more stable if one side of the car hits a bump, because the force is transferred more evenly between the L and R strut towers. He explains it in the video

+elliot438bcfc Interesting. Did you feel that change in the car's behaviour with these mods alone or in conjunction with stiffer springs? Do you have stock springs or stiffer aftermarket ones?

Siddharth Rajkumar Well all of the braces other than the H brace under the engine are stock. It is on Ohlins coilovers so not overly stiff or hard. The car is definitely a cornering champ and I believe the front and rear strut braces aswell as the H brace definitely help. Obviously a good brand of coilovers such as my Ohlins will make a huge difference even over the already great DC2 suspension

elliot438bcfc I see. As far as strut bars/braces go, the baseline you seem to have for your car's handing is NOT without those parts in place. I was hoping to know if all the strut bars were installed by you and that's what improved the handling. The improvement you have achieved seems to be mostly due to the coilovers. Of course, I am only deducing that from your comment since you are the one who drives your car. However, if all the strut bars (save for the H brace) came as stock, the car actually needs them to handle well and would not be as poised without them. I wonder how much of an improvement a strut bar provides in real world circumstances in a car that does not come stock with it. All theoretical questions I guess...

Siddharth Rajkumar I believe strut bars will have a small effect on handling. I don't think Honda would put them there for no reason as they made the car to be as light as possible. During hard cornering (providing grip is adequate) there will be flex and strut bars will definitely lessen this flex. Similar to how brake stoppers work.

+elliot438bcfc That makes sense. If they made the shell of the car as light as possible, that means some load bearing parts (like strut mounts) might flex under cornering stress. To make up for that they must have installed strut bars instead of adding large areas of thicker sheet metal. Brake stoppers? Do you mean bars or link rods that connect the chassis/body to brake calipers to prevent them turning about the rotors?

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***** You could always paint your brake calipers red you know, +25KW.

***** It just increase your car stability

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you don't really need them

Bill Wilkins You only need strut bars on cars that can go fast and corner. in other words not civics.

A rear bar might be a decent idea if you want a cheap mod. Those cars don't even have rear sway bars... It might actually help.

+Ali Yes definitely.

+Ali I thought it was just 5hp ;). If you want 50hp, you need change the alloys too.

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for extra hp you need a bumper sticker

Yes but if you want your car to run cooler you want a blue strut bar. To reduce emissions you're going to want a green bar for that one.

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marc mendes Even a 3 point strut bar is an ultra fine tuning component, like adding a massive gt wing for example. For handling start with tires, coilovers, weight, and then nitty gritty stuff like chassis modifications.

marc mendes my bro and i were talking about the 3 point strut bar this morning. since i won't take my delsol to the track and its just street we went with a basic strut bar. i wouldn't see why any car on the street would need three point strut

A street car doesn't NEED a lot of things, but people do them anyways. Like a blown 800hp 3mpg camaro or a civic with a giant turbo that doesnt spool until 5k. You can make whatever choices you want and ultimately it comes down to what car you have and what you want to do with it. but me, id save the money for just about anything else over a 3 piece, 2 point strut bar. It was more a comment hoping they would have explained some real engineering concepts behind chassis stiffness and take things a step further than the standard explanation you can get on any forum and why people continue to have people buying up those useless 2 piece bars. I think you'll find your strut bar is mostly just in the way for a street car (it was in mine)

Since we're talking street cars, triangulated braces aren't all that beneficial to them. The firewall isn't a strong point for mounting something like that. A basic design, solid sway bar would work better unless the firewall was reinforced. I've yet to read any positive feedback from tri-braces and just looking at the overall design, you can see that as a corner is moving up/down it will be pulling that bar, and therefore firewall itself, to it.

Alex Yang depends on how you drive. increasing the rigidity of the vehicle puts more stress to the tires. I noticed this after I put a front sway bar on my 96 corolla. I got wayyyyy less body roll but noticed my tires wear faster. then again the increased stability gave me more confidence to corner faster soooo it's debatable.

Exactly what I have been looking for ! Intelligent scientific explanation of cars - just brilliant and thank you 🙏

What youre talking about? the pivot point of the lower control arm is not coincident with the friction vector... therefore there MUST be a moment created lol

um sorry, what?! that's literally one of the first things he said lmao

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They're installed from the factory on some premium cars, like Shelby Mustangs.

Russain Guy Gang the presenter is explaining the use of a strut bar. struts are fastened or installed in car’s steel plate rather than bolted in car’s chassis. struts installed in car’s steel plate body gives a bending effect on the plate and that’s where the bracket comes to its purpose. My question is, how can a strut bracket eliminate that bending effect on the plate when he the presenter uses a folding end brackets? is it the purpose is to make the struts rigid in order to hold the struts swaying movement? please help me understand the purpose. Ty

Loony Linn Exactly, most off -the-shelf strut bars pivot at the ends because the bolts holding the bar are horizontal i.e. the same rotational placement as the exact motion it's meant to stop. You want a strut bar where the bar bolts in vertically through the brackets. Alternatively, I suppose if that's all someone had available for their car, then the brackets could just be welded to the bar.

Street car: leave it the way it is, people spent hours at the factory trying to make an UNDERSTEER prone ride for you... Fixed it for you... almost ALL vehicles (unless you are buying a halo model sports car that is factory tuned for performance) will have a suspension tune that is biased towards understeer. Which is not a BAD thing, as most point A to point B drivers will never take a car to its handling limits unless they are trying to avoid a collision... understeer is "SAFE" Now, as a driving enthusiast, you know - a car tuned for neutral handling or a small amount of oversteer is the faster car in the corners. Being able to rotate the car in a corner and correct with a dab of opposite lock is more desireable than plowing out of a corner, or worse, plowing out, lifting off and spinning the car... if spirited or track driving is your thing. Just saying, the engineers that designed the suspension in most cars didn't set it up to handle at its absolute potential. they set it up so the soccer mom that will flip the hell out if the car unexpectedly rotates in a corner and crash...doesn't Also not saying a strut bar is the answer to any particular question. I tend to agree that they are largely un needed... unless it is. I would argue the point that alot of modern cars tend to handle better when pushed to the limit when you install a stiffer than factory rear sway bar...

No, understeer is more complicated than simply being "loose" or "tight," or it being bad vs good, it's way oversimplifying the dynamics. The short of the answer is the function of the body is to be rigid platform for the suspension to generate consistent grip under load. If you're talking street car, there's no way it "mishandles" on even roads due to it being too tight. Street cars by nature are underdamped for comfort. Plus, strut bars are about reducing unregulated, sloppy motion. Actually, now that I think about it I think you're confusing strut bar with sway bar. Even assuming it's creating understeer, there are a million ways to offset that, like more camber in the front, stiffer rear sways, heck even changing front/rear tire pressure.

Coming from someone that has been through 4 suspension setups in his Focus ST since he blew his original monroe struts 2 years ago I can say you may be right. Unless you plan on having a race team to adjust your ride height, damping, preload, and camber in my case on both front and rear plus adjustable sway bar link all atound and adjustable control arms in rear...my car catches a dip and literally launches itself up and back down so hard yet its semi controlled so I guess you can say it works but it iant ideal. Roads suck and unless you plan on driving your car to the track and adjudting it there I would leave things alone except for maybe a mild lowering spring at most. Even that is playing with fire. I am up to a 1,000 set of coilovers, my second set, and have tried multiple adjustments and even brought it to every shop in town. I am gathering parts to put it back to stock and will be selling all the crap I wasted money on for half the price on ebay. The car is so stiff its jumpy and what sucks is there is enough adjustment in it where you could probably raise it up and adjuat the coilovers to a softer setting and get away with that but between me and the people at the shops around here it seems to be more of a hassle than they are willing to deal with. I cant even get my mecjhanic to replace parts on my car until they are noticeably bad. He wont replace struts that has 60k miles on them that he thinks are fine. The rears were leaking at 30k miles and replaced by factory though. What a joke.

lampim. Agreed. The car might feel a bit "tighter" as the slight ( as in thousands of an inch) flexing of the strut towers would be reduced, but actual lap times would be the same. The crap ones shown in this video are weak at the brackets, as the brackets extend upwards and can flex themselves. The bars are bent, which in itself is a weak design. And the brace is not triangulated to the firewall, therefore the strut towers could technically flex front to rear. Mostly rubish! If your strut towers are flexing that much, the car is scary weak.

Most tower bars won't be straight because it needs to actually get over the engine. Or they will need to be raised. There's no way around that

Yes and on your nuts

have you done it before ?

+henry Sanson what brand are looking for ??

+Ashton Thao for the one that adds like 50 hp lmao

+shinkueagle but then he needs drag tires

Free man most of the time, but not always.

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Its not marketing some of the times. The fact is... It will depend on the quality of the bar but most important the state of the car. A 10 year old car might notice a huge difference, while a 1 year car wouldnt notice difference at all. Strut braces are also used on racing.

Sorry to say this, but my struts that had a little over 80k miles, felt newer after putting on my strut tower brace bar. But now, I have been riding on Koni yellow sport shocks and struts with that same strut bar. It is even more wicked of a ride. Oh... and I put them in my vehicle myself too! Even modded my car to accept the Koni yellow sport struts to go onto, since Koni doesn’t make their yellow sports for it.

So watch my video on how to install it, and be grumpy about your new found knowledge.

hahaha get some performance stickers and that will give you a whopping five horse power to the wheels my main point with my car is a solid transmission and handling and I'm also installing a roll cage and working seat belts. when I was in the fire dept I seen some nasty shit I'm talking brains in the console that was enough for me to change my plan I haven't done nothing to my cars paint or carpet I went straight for the motor but this guy could come with a straight answer I like you're style

+Martin Corleone There is a link on the right of the screen to watch other videos...it's real easy just click onn one of them and you can watch MCM or some other BS channel instead of learning something, lol. Just my thoughts...

Martin Corleone Where is collage math in there?

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