[Baker]

Bought a Neuspeed front upper strut bar from a guy for $30 shipped and recently purchased two rear solid bars. Got both the upper and lower SOLID rear bars for $175 shipped. I already have the front one on and put the rear upper one on yesterday. Gonna try and do the rear lower one today. Don;t have pics of them installed yet, but will try to get some soon.

Neuspeed front upper strut bar

Rear upper strut bar
To install you will need to notch out the plastic in order to get it to fit, but it looks pretty sweet and hopefully will perform well!


Rear lower tie bar

 

[stick]

I wish someone would make a rear bar (without hinge joints) that would fit without having to notch the plastic. I guess there isn't much room to work with if the interior panels are still installed in the car. I have a DC Sports one that doesn't need notching of the plastic, but it is "hinged" at the shock tower mount brackets, so I don't know how much good it really does.

Once I get a welder, I think I'll ghetto fabricate one that uses thick threaded rod so I can "extend" it to put a little bit of tension on the shock towers. It won't look pretty, but there won't be any hinges in the design.

 

[Baker]

I wish someone would make a rear bar (without hinge joints) that would fit without having to notch the plastic. I guess there isn't much room to work with if the interior panels are still installed in the car. I have a DC Sports one that doesn't need notching of the plastic, but it is "hinged" at the shock tower mount brackets, so I don't know how much good it really does.

This is why i looked and went ahead with getting these. No hinges but i do sacrifice some plastic when i notched it out. It doesn't really bother me since it does serve a purpose and should perform much better than a hinged bar.

 

[SETI20]

OMP rear solid bar.
No hinges...no notching. Unless ofcourse you want to install those 2 small covers again. d'uh.

 

[jmart]

OMP rear solid bar.
No hinges...no notching. Unless ofcourse you want to install those 2 small covers again. d'uh.

Seti, can you show us a picture of that bar? Th eonly pic i could find was this:

on this website:

http://www.ompracing.it/lista.php3#

and I don't see straightaway how that would mount into a crx.
**scratches head**

 

[SETI20]

....walks to car

 

[Baker]

Seti, can you show us a picture of that bar? Th eonly pic i could find was this:

and I don't see straightaway how that would mount into a crx.
**scratches head**

I don't see how that OMP bar can be mouted WITHOUT some type of hinging?

 

[SETI20]

....yea of little faith.

 

[Baker]

Something about the way it mounts up and sits looks weird, just by the way it mounts and mounting points, i wouldn't think it would be strong as where strut braces typically mount.

 

[SETI20]

Most braces mount to the bolt locations of the top hats. With all the flex going on there they tend to lose some of their rigidity.
These mount directly to the shock. Don't look as purty..but if I'd wanted bling I would have gotten something chromed.

I mean...yellow? ugg...almost as ghastly as koni shocks.

 

[Baker]

I guess it is all preference.
I just wanted a bar that is solid and NOT hinged.

How much does that OMP bar retail for?

 

[SETI20]

AFAIK this is the only solid non-hinged bar out there.
Don't ask me why, cause the design is real simple.

Maybe it's just because they have to be really precise...or they won't fit. Most cheap bars you have to wiggle around a bit to get them on. These...no chance.

 

[Baker]

Maybe it's just because they have to be really precise...or they won't fit. Most cheap bars you have to wiggle around a bit to get them on. These...no chance.

Mine slipped on nice and snug!