Installed
took all of about 2 minutes if you include opening the box and cleaning off the top of the strut area inside the engine bay.
They make a small indent in the bar to clear the cruise control module, very slick.
I love it and I succeed to Event.....
The bracing DOES make a difference, now that I've got what little I have done to the car the bar helps to bring everything together and makes it a bit more refined.
-Chris
Strut bars can make a big difference if you ask me. I think of them as like adding 10%. If you're suspension is a 2 out of 10 (rating scale), and you add a bar, it's only gonna bring it up to a 2.2. But if you're suspension is already a tricked out 8 of 10, adding that bar is going bring it up to 8.8 (almost 9) out of 10 and you're gonna really notice that difference.
I love my stock bar by the way. The way to go if you're trying to look stock, like me (I love the sleeper look).
^what? adding 10% would bring 2/10 to ...3/10. if the whole scale is a 1-10....@!#$ it
2 * 1.10 (break out the calculator if you need to) = 2.2
IMO if you can't see it and it exists it's "sleeper" There's plenty of high performance cars I enjoy following thru the twisties, and the weird expressions on their faces seeing that It's "ONLY" a sunfire following them and not losing any ground.
I enjoy my suspension imensly.
and I'd say your correct ont that weird, yet true equation. It just furthers the mark at which your suspension can preform.
Next move is some sort of lowering.
-Chris
I'll try and get a picture up tonight
-Chris
I'm looking at getting that one too. I already feel a difference with my eibach springs in the corners, strut bar will just add to the great feel and then I'm adding anti-roll kit to keep everything on the ground.
here is a pic of mine , its large
^^ I have an ecotec and thats what mine looks like. It made a difference the first day, I def noticed it. But not so much any more, I have really gotten used to it and the rear sway bar. Time for new springs and struts.
yeah that is the eco tec bar
Pretty decent.
Welds on tne end look better than in the stock pics for it.
But um.....what about the header?
-M
Remember....syringes go in the RED waste basket.
Mike wrote:^^ I have an ecotec and thats what mine looks like. It made a difference the first day, I def noticed it. But not so much any more, I have really gotten used to it and the rear sway bar. Time for new springs and struts.
If you wanna notice it again, go unbolt one side of your strut bar, and drive your car for a few miles. You'll want to bolt it back on in a heartbeat.
mmmmm...... that doesnt look like the pic I have for the bar
maybe the pic I have is for the SRT-4........ and they just used it to promote the J-body bar....... ?
Eric, send me some better pics of it....... want to see if its worth selling my OEM bar for.
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THAT IS the bar I have, that small indentation you see will allow you to leave your cruise control module in its stock position(no relocation)
. A lot of retailers will show a picture of a dual bar, but they only make the single for the ecotec.
-Chris
how much better can i get ?? LOL
IM me tonight
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