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canadaRS1.0 · 09-16-2016, 01:48 PM

so i just got my grimmspeed bar yesterday

was surprised to find that the bolt holes for it are basically slotted.

all the strut bars i've ran on any other platform have either fit exactly, or had threaded ends to put tension on the bar. i was surprised to see that with this bar and its slotted holes, you can slide the bar back and forth damn near a 1/4 of an inch before you bolt it down... and given that we are talking about trying to prevent very small fractions of an inch of deflection.. it seems wrong to me that the bar has so much "slack" in it. the only thing preventing movement is 4 bolts torqued to 12 ft-lbs?

maybe this will work fine.. but it just doesnt seem right to me. i have a hard time trusting that small amount of clamping force is really going to keep this thing in place under hard transitions through a slalom or around a hard corner at the track.

has anyone had issues with this? or can anyone comment on other strut tower bars for this platform? is this common now a days? i havent bought a strut tower bar in a number of years.. but i went through a lot "back in the day" on AE86s, supras, civics, etc . and i dont remember any bar being like this. generally the issue was more towards being a pain in the ass to install them because they fit so precisely.

09-16-2016, 01:48 PM	#1
canadaRS1.0 Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Drives: FRS RS 1.0 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 29 Thanks: 2 Thanked 14 Times in 7 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	grimmspeed strut tower bar so i just got my grimmspeed bar yesterday was surprised to find that the bolt holes for it are basically slotted. all the strut bars i've ran on any other platform have either fit exactly, or had threaded ends to put tension on the bar. i was surprised to see that with this bar and its slotted holes, you can slide the bar back and forth damn near a 1/4 of an inch before you bolt it down... and given that we are talking about trying to prevent very small fractions of an inch of deflection.. it seems wrong to me that the bar has so much "slack" in it. the only thing preventing movement is 4 bolts torqued to 12 ft-lbs? maybe this will work fine.. but it just doesnt seem right to me. i have a hard time trusting that small amount of clamping force is really going to keep this thing in place under hard transitions through a slalom or around a hard corner at the track. has anyone had issues with this? or can anyone comment on other strut tower bars for this platform? is this common now a days? i havent bought a strut tower bar in a number of years.. but i went through a lot "back in the day" on AE86s, supras, civics, etc . and i dont remember any bar being like this. generally the issue was more towards being a pain in the ass to install them because they fit so precisely.