Rear upper/lower strut tower bars

[festivaWES]

Made them couple days ago thought i would show some pictures

[fastivaca]

Is the lower one attached to the bottom of the struts?

[oxbrain]

I would weld brackets to the frame instead of attaching the bar to the shocks on top. You want those to be able to wiggle a little, you don't want the frame twisting.

Also, I hope that lower bar isn't attached to the struts. That would act as a massive rear sway bar, making the rear end way too loose. The rear is pretty strong laterally, if you're looking for more anti-sway try boxing off a couple inches on the torsion beam.

[MrBadWrench]

I plan on using 2in aluminum angle for the rear... all the merkur guys have been doing this for years and its quite simple.

Don

[festivaWES]

Yes the bottom is attached to the struts on the bottom..and i made my other one off of the rally festiva off of the picture gallery....it does wiggle a little bit. You not suppose to over tighten the top strut nuts causing the bushing to sqeeze out over that metal collar.

[festivaWES]

Besides my plan is to cut the floor and weld the top bar to the bottom bar....

[Silv3rBull3t]

How does it handle at the limit? Does the backend feel too tight? Does it cause the car to be unsettled over slight bumps in a corner? Please elaborate. I am going to box off the Aspire beam w/1/8" plate but would like some other options/opinions as well. -Kyle

[FestYboy]

Besides my plan is to cut the floor and weld the top bar to the bottom bar....

i hate to burst your bubble, but if you weld the top to the bottom, you'll either 1) break the welds, or 2) bust something on your chassis when you go over any hard bump or dip.

what i'm saying is, if you weld top to bottom, you'll loose any and all rear suspension travel; like having a solid axel welded straight to the frame, and that's not a good thing.

[festivaWES]

Yeah.....i know. And the welds won't bust

[Jimmy]

If you want to get rid of any suspension movement, just replace your shocks/springs with solid bars.

[Safety Guy]

You could always fill your tires with concrete, too. That'll really stiffen things up! :twisted:

Karl

[FestYboy]

Yeah.....i know. And the welds won't bust

so then why exactly are you doing that? i mean, i can't understand as to why you'd wnat to loose all rear suspension movement.

not starting a flame, i'm just curious...

[festivaWES]

Was just pondering with the idea.....the strut bars tighened everything else up so nice that i don't think I'll want to solid bar the rear.