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Just saw that this thread got some updates so I wanted to give some updates of my own.
It turns out the noise I was hearing was a blown HVT camber plate bearing. I was able to move the bearing up and down relative to the plate itself by a couple mm. I had them rebuilt and then sold them.
Going back to stock top hats solved that noise.
I am still getting a noise from the strut towers so that is relevant to this post. I have the OEM flexible V bars, and I can actually shake the spot welded attachment on the firewall. This makes a clunk for roughly 3-4 shakes and then goes away.
I have had many different strut bar setups (STi, Grimmspeed, Hotchkis, Ts V bars) and the more rigid my setup (Hotchkis strut bar) the less noise it would make, but the less rigid the setup (Flexible V bars only) would make the most noise. I either attribute this to damage when installing the Hotchkis strut bar (imagine tightening 3 out of 4 of the mounting points, and then when you tighten the 4th point it puts a ton of stress on the mount, almost pulling it up and out), or from a common V bar noise found in some cars.
Maybe this car needs a strut bar to take stress of the V bars so they don't make so much noise? Either way this is the only noise my car makes, so when I fix it I will post what I did.
Thank you all for posting, this has been quite the adventure.
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