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Originally Posted by Sportsguy83
There is a replacement crash beam for $150.
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It's everyone's right to take their own risks with their own car, for sure. Having said that, there is no way I would ever replace the OEM beam with a steel tube.
Three reasons:
1) No testing. This community goes on and on about whether or not performance claims have been track tested, heat-soak tested, tested on e85, tested at altitude, etc etc etc. But then we're willing to slap a $150 piece of steel tube with zero testing on our car and trust it to protect us in a collision? That's super crazy.
2) The device does not even claim to offer occupant collision protection. First, it's called a "Drift Bar" not a "Crash Beam." Second, the product description says nothing about occupant protection:
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It protects critical front end components and provide additional protection to expensive headlight assemblies and body panels.
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I take that to mean that it offers protection to front-end components at very low speeds, but claims no ability to distribute offset frontal crash loads.
3) There are so many FI options for this car that retain the OEM crash beam, why would you choose one that introduces collision protection concerns? Full Blown has specifically stated:
I don't know. Like I said, everyone can obviously choose for themselves, but to me Power is the #2 priority and Occupant Protection is the #1 priority.
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