Strut & Tie Bars question

[blazt]

greetings, just wondering if this help? 3pcs strust front, read and lower read bars???? i saw this on ebay.com, but they dont are any popular brand, so tell me some opinion if i should buy this for turnning in curves. thanks. also whats difference in brand like megan, aem, and other popular that this non-popular brand. appreciate some helps.

[tickleMYelmo]

Strut bars shouldn't really make a difference if they are brand name or not... As long as they are one piece design...

[johnl]

Search this site, there's a lot of discussion on tower braces.

If you do an 'advanced search' with keyword 'strut bar' and searching for threads to which I've contributed (i.e. author - johnl), you'll find 9 threads discussing the good and bad of tower struts

[johnl]

Strut bars shouldn't really make a difference if they are brand name or not... As long as they are one piece design...

I utterly disagree with the intent of your post. I agree that 'name' isn't the important thing, but disagree that all "strut bars" (tower braces) are more or less equal, and with the notion that "one piece" are inherantly superior to those comprising three pieces (i.e. the bar itself + two attachment brackets).

Good tower braces are very rigid (including the attachment brackets), and work well. Bad braces are not very rigid (often the brackets are the weak point, but the bar itself may not be stiff enough), and don't work well.

With a well designed tower brace it makes no in principle difference whether the brace is a one or three piece design, the bolts that attach the bar to the brackets don't act as hinges as seems commonly thought.

No tower brace provides any increase in vertical stiffness, they only increase lateral stiffness at the towers, i.e. the only significant force that can be resisted by a tower brace is a force that passes through the bar in compression or tension, no tower brace (one piece or three) has nearly enough 'beam' strength to resist vertical chassis flexure to any significant degree.

I suggest you do a search as above and read through some of the tower brace discussion on this site.