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Bar weighs in at 9.0 pounds
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I hoped to put this one to rest.
I installed the AEM strut bar the other night and decided to weigh everything out.
The stock power braces weighed in at 2.0 pounds total (1.0 pounds each).
The AEM strut tower bar weighed 9.0 pounds without the screw/nut for the master cylinder brace.
My scale isn't hyper accurate, but I'm also certain it's not off by a lot.
As was mentioned previously, the bar actually feels very light in the hand. Of course, as many have already noted, the bar is actually somewhat thick on the exterior, but being as light as it is, I have to imagine that the actual metal thickness of the bar is not that much. If I remember my high school physics correctly, a piece of piping that is thin but of greater diameter is potentially still more resistant to flex than that of something with a thick wall, but smaller diameter.
I've run Hotchkis equipment in the past, and their stuff tends to be quite good as well. In the end, I'll bet there isn't much performance gap between the two, with the exception of the added bonus of a master cylinder brace on the AEM.
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