Strut brace Rigid or Flexible??

Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:34 pm

Hi there I am lookign at purchasing a strut brace but wondered which ones you suggest are best... I was lookign at the sparco double tube bar. But thought i'd ask you guys first.
Cheers

Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:37 pm

Surely a strut brace has to be rigid or it won't do the job it's meant to??

Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:54 pm

Yea thats what I'm thinking and thats why I'll probs get the sparco one but some like the AC Schnizter one and the cheap ebay one's are hinged??

Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:03 pm

Also does anyone know if the Sparco M3 bar will fit an iS as it seems they sell two bars a M3 and obviously a non m3?? PLEASE HELP

Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:21 pm

Having a pivot shouldn't make any difference. The strut brace is only ever loaded in compression (or tensions perhaps) and never in bending so it being rigidly fixed at either end will have no bearing on it's performance.

You'd have to have an incredibly flexible body shell for the strut brace to need to carry bending loads.

Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:41 pm

If its for road use and you have a standard car just get the one you like the look of as your not going to notice the difference, its hard to feel the difference on a race car with sticky tyres to be honest and only really works as part of a whole suspension overhall, i.e dampers, springs, bushes, ARB etc etc ...