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Originally Posted by MSTiFK8R
I driven both solid and flex strut bars from STI (on Forester XT)
I may say they react pretty much same, giving sharper steering response and chasis solidness
the difference is when you drive on the harsh road with uneven surface - with the solid bar car tends to jump hitting a crack\hole\bump with both sides, even when the hole is at 1 side of the car
and driving with a flex one allows more vertical movement for each side of the car, leaving the other side in relative comfort, so as not bothering you with unnecesseary hit in the steering wheel
and concerning horizontal movements and corners - you will get the same stiffness from both bars
I hope this helps
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Sorry, but I don't buy it. There's no way making the chassis stiffer will make both wheels react to a bump that only one hits (unless it's a HUGE bump and the whole car reacts, but that would happen stock too).
I could see a really stiff sway bar doing what you're describing a bit since those actually limit independent wheel motion, but not a strut bar.
The strut bar doesn't know the difference between being compressed by a bump, or being compressed by loading the outside suspension in a corner.
All a strut bar does is minimize the strut towers folding towards each other under load. The forces from a bump or from a corner are acting on it the same, just at a different speed and duration.